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- The Great Scottish Squirrel Survey is back! September 21, 2020
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Eun a’ Chinn Duibh air a bheil ‘Ceann-fionn’ / The Black-headed ‘White Head’ Bird
Carson a tha na Gàidheil a’ gabhail ‘ceann-fionn’ air eun le ceann dubh? Tha Ruairidh MacIlleathain a’ feuchainn ris an gnothach a shoilleireachadh. / Why do Scotland’s Gaels call penguins ‘white-heads’, despite their being black-headed? Roddy Maclean investigates a nomenclatural … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, coastal, Folklore, Gaelic, Land management, Uncategorized, Year of Coasts and Waters 2020
Tagged Auks, birds, entymology, Folklore, Gaelic, great auk, language, names, NatureScot, penguins, Roddy Maclean, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish Gaelic, seabirds
The Great Scottish Squirrel Survey is back!
The Great Scottish Squirrel Survey returns for its second year this autumn. Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels (SSRS) are calling on people all over Scotland to explore outdoors on the lookout for tufted ears and bushy tails between 21-27 September, during … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, mammals, Squirrels
Tagged NatureScot, red squirrel, red squirrels, Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels, Scotland, Squirrels
Beavers and a shared approach to wildlife management
Last week, NatureScot launched the Shared Approach to Wildlife Management which sets out how different interest groups can work together to help ensure healthy and valued populations of wildlife across Scotland. In the first of a series of blogs, we … Continue reading
Posted in wildlife management
Tagged beavers, NatureScot, shared approach, Tayside, wildlife management
#YCW2020 A Day in the Life – Wetlands Graduate Placement Fairlie Kirkpatrick Baird
During the Year of Coasts and Waters 2020, we’ve been joining NatureScot staff working along our shorelines and watery places to gain an insight into the important and varied work they do. This month we hear from graduate placement Fairlie Kirkpatrick … Continue reading
Posted in Year of Coasts and Waters 2020
Tagged bog, climate change, drought, extreme weather, NatureScot, Wetlands
The Lockdown Sessions – NatureScot’s virtual house band
During the early days of lockdown when most of us were just getting acquainted with Zoom, the NatureScot Virtual House Band was formed. Each in their own little corner of Scotland the musicians merged to entertain the troops with some … Continue reading
Posted in art, Nature in art, SNH, Staff profile, Uncategorized
Tagged art, Corvid-, Covid-19, lockdown, music, nature, NatureScot, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, technology
Career through a lens: my favourite photographic memories
Working with us for over forty-five years now, our celebrated NatureScot photographer, Lorne Gill, has seen many changes to Scotland’s countryside. The creation of the West Highland Way and several other long-distance routes, two National Parks and the reintroduction of … Continue reading
Posted in art, Nature in art, photography, Staff profile, Uncategorized
Tagged Lorne Gill, nature, naturephotography, NatureScot, photography, Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Wildlife, wildlife photography
Natural born killers – biocontrol of invasive non-native plants in Scotland
Biological control is the use of living organisms to help control pest populations. In this post Marion Seier, Senior Plant Pathologist at CABI (Centre for Agriculture & Bioscience International), describes the work being carried out by CABI’s Invasive Species group … Continue reading
Aiteann – ceangal eadar Dà Dheoch / Juniper – a link between Gin and Whisky
Bidh daoine a’ ceangal aiteann ri sine ach air a’ Ghàidhealtachd tha am preas cuideachd ceangailte ri uisge-beatha / Juniper is intimately linked with gin but, in the Highlands of Scotland, it also has connections to whisky … Aiteann – … Continue reading
Posted in Folklore, Gaelic, plants, Uncategorized
Tagged Folklore, Gaelic, Gin, juniper, nature, NatureScot, place names, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, whisky
An t-Ùraisg – Mac-meanmnach no Fìor? / The Urisk – Scotland’s ‘Bigfoot’?
Ma nochdas ainm ‘gnè ainmhidh’ air mapa oifigeil, feumaidh gu bheil e fìor is creideasach … no an fheum …? / If an ‘animal species’ is named on an official map, it must surely be a biological reality …. mustn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Folklore, Gaelic, Uncategorized
Tagged Bigfoot, Folklore, Gaelic, legend, maps, mythology, NatureScot, place names, Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Urisk
I’ll Walk 500 Miles
It’s 5am and time for Yvonne Ferguson to rise and take her Border collie, Jess, out for a walk before she sets out from Collieston, 15 miles north of Aberdeen to Newburgh, walking four miles across the wide expanse of … Continue reading
Posted in Access, active travel, Forvie NNR, National Nature Reserves, photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Coronavirus, Covid-19, Fish Wivies Path, Forvie NNR, lockdown, NatureScot, NNRs, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, walking
