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Gulls: do you love them or loathe them?
The urban gull. People either love them or loathe them. Perhaps you like feeding them. Or maybe you get annoyed when they swoop down and steal your chips. If you’re woken up by noisy gulls, it may seem like they … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, gulls, NatureScot, wildlife management
Tagged birds, gulls, herring gulls, NatureScot
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Tackling rhododendron together
In our latest blog we explore how lessons learned from Scotland’s rainforest helped to avert a serious threat from invasive rhododendron in Norway. Scotland’s west coast is home to temperate rainforest habitat, which is scarcer than tropical rainforest and hosts … Continue reading
Celebrating our Machair
It’s fitting that even English speakers use a Gaelic word for a habitat that is such an icon of the Gàidhealtachd. Leugh ann an Gàidhlig In the dark depths of winter, perhaps it’s appropriate to remind ourselves of the light … Continue reading
Posted in Gaelic, machair, Uncategorized
Tagged biodiversity, Gaelic, Habitats, Hebrides, machair, nature, NatureScot, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Uists, Western Isles
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Machraichean Bòidheach na h-Alba
Tha am facal ‘machair’ cho sònraichte ʼs gu bheil e air tighinn a-steach don Bheurla. Read in English Tha e math aig an àm seo dhen bhliadhna, nuair a tha na làithean dorch agus a’ ghrian ìosal, a bhith a’ … Continue reading
Posted in Gaelic, machair, Uncategorized
Tagged biodiversity, crofting, Gaelic, habitat, Hebrides, machair, nature, NatureScot, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Western Isles
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Surveying for flapper skate eggs
Last week it was announced that the critically-endangered flapper skate is to gain further protection with the extension of Red Rocks and Longay urgent Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Inner Sound of Skye. In our latest blog, we take … Continue reading
Birds of Premonition
The Gaels traditionally viewed some bird behaviours as predictors of future events… Leugh ann an Gàidhlig Birds are active creatures whose lives intertwine regularly with our own. Some of our avian friends even make their homes in and around our … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Folklore, Gaelic, Uncategorized
Tagged birds, Gaelic, nature, NatureScot, omens, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, superstitions
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Eòin nam Manaidhean
ʼS iomadh eun a dh’innseas dhuinn dè tha romhainn … Read in English Tha na ceanglaichean eadar eòin agus daoine gu math làidir. Nach tuirt ar sinnsearan gum b’ e Linn an Àigh nuair a bha Gàidhlig aig na h-eòin?! … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Folklore, Gaelic, Uncategorized
Tagged birds, Folklore, Gaelic, nature, NatureScot, omens, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, superstitions
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Land of Falling Water
‘Eas’ in the Gaelic landscape marks a named waterfall Leugh ann an Gàidhlig There must be thousands of waterfalls cascading off mountains in the Scottish Highlands, most of which are marked on our maps with the simple English label ‘waterfall’. … Continue reading
Posted in Gaelic, Uncategorized
Tagged entymology, Gaelic, nature, NatureScot, place names, Roddy Maclean, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, waterfalls
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Tìr nan Easan ʼs nan Steall
ʼS iomadh eas a chithear air a’ Ghàidhealtachd, agus tha ainmean sònraichte air feadhainn dhiubh. Read in English Feumaidh gu bheil na mìltean de dh’easan ann an Alba mhòr bheanntach an uisge ach mar as trice chan fhaicear air a’ … Continue reading
Posted in Gaelic, Uncategorized
Tagged entymology, Gaelic, History, maps, nature, NatureScot, place names, Roddy Maclean, Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, waterfalls
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A dream job in river restoration
In our latest guest blog with Lantra Scotland, we hear from environmental conservation apprentice Niall Provan on his work to restore Scotland’s rivers with the Forth Rivers Trust, and his journey into a conservation career. I have always had a … Continue reading
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