You are now able to book your free place at the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme’s 20^th Anniversary celebrations at Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, Perthshire on Friday 25th November. 

Booking is essential. Please visit the link below to secure your place.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scottish-raptor-monitoring-scheme-20th-anniversary-celebration-tickets-428565760727

There will be a programme of talks from 2-4 pm followed by a celebratory drinks reception until 5 pm.

Welcome Amy Challis (SRMS Coordinator)

Why raptors are brilliant Brian Etheridge (Scottish Raptor Study Group)

Our greatest achievements Andrew Stevenson (SRMS Chair)

The importance of volunteers & Raptor Patch Logan Steele (Scottish Raptor Study Group)

How SRMS data are used by SRMS partners Kenny Kortland (Forestry & Land Scotland)

Raptor monitoring – the international context for SRMS David Stroud (formerly Joint Nature Conservation Committee)

Raptor monitoring in action – video

Thoughts from the Minister for Environment & Land Reform Mairi McAllan MSP

The rise and fall of a population of Buzzards over the last 35 years Mike Bell (Tayside & Fife Raptor Study Group)

SRMS trends in breeding numbers & productivity Chris Wernham (British Trust for Ornithology)

Close and welcome to drinks reception Amy Challis (SRMS Coordinator)

We are very pleased that the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC), one of our SRMS partners, has agreed to our celebratory event being linked to the Club’s annual weekend conference (Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November), which this year is themed around raptors. Attendees at the SRMS event who wish to book a place at the SOC conference or stay for the Friday evening conference programme (including dinner, talk and quiz) need to book directly through the Club. For programme details and to book, visit https://www.the-soc.org.uk/support-us/events/events/the-2022-annual-conference

On the week the SRMS celebrate its 20th birthday, we are pleased to share our latest issue of Scottish Raptor. Please take a look here to find out all the news from the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme.

To mark the occasion of our 20th birthday many of the representatives who sit on the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Group, share their messages of ongoing support for the SRMS. We will be holding a celebratory event later this year – Friday 25th November – for which details and booking information will be made available in due course.

As well as bringing you up to speed with the work of the Scheme, in this issue we have a number of invited articles, including an update on the Avian Influenza situation which is impacting raptors and a piece looking back at the history of Golden Eagle and Peregrine monitoring in Central Scotland.

If you would like to sign up to receive future issues of the newsletter by email then please email the SRMC – srmc@bto.org.

Back issues of Scottish Raptor can be accessed here.

The SRMS is pleased to announce the publication of its annual report covering the 2020 breeding season. Find out how Scottish raptors fared in 2020 by reading the latest report which can be accessed here. Supplementary data tables linked from the report can be accessed here.

The latest issue of Scottish Raptor is now available. Please take a look here to find out all the news from the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme.

Hopefully it is not too early to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas. As well as bringing you up to speed with the work of the Scheme we have a number of invited articles, including an update on work undertaken by SASA’s Wildlife DNA Forensic Unit to build raptor forensic DNA databases and an update on the work of the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project.

If you would like to sign up to receive future issues of the newsletter by email then please email the SRMC – srmc@bto.org.

Back issues of Scottish Raptor can be accessed here.

The SRMS is pleased to announce the publication of its annual report covering the 2019 breeding season. Find out how Scottish raptors fared in 2019 by reading the latest report which can be accessed here. Supplementary data tables linked from the report can be accessed here.

The latest issue of Scottish Raptor is now available. Please take a look here to find out all the news from the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme.

We hope that all our readers, their friends, families and colleagues are safe and well and that this issue will bring a bit of cheer to our contributors in what can only be described as an odd year. As well as bringing you up to speed with the work of the Scheme we have a number of invited articles. We celebrate 40 years of the SRSG with an article written by Chris Rollie (Chair of the D&G branch of SRSG), and have an interesting article from Davie Black of Mountaineering Scotland in relation to rock climbing and crag-nesting raptors. Some of our readers also share some of their own lockdown raptor highlights.

If you would like to sign up to receive future issues of the newsletter by email then please email the SRMC – srmc@bto.org.

Back issues of Scottish Raptor can be accessed here.

The latest issue of Scottish Raptor is now available. Please take a look here to find out all the news from the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme.

Please could all data contributors take special note of our statement on the current Covid-19 situation in relation to their fieldwork for the current breeding season.

If you would like to sign up to receive future issues of the newsletter by email then please complete the form here.

Back issues of Scottish Raptor can be accessed here.

The latest issue of Scottish Raptor is now available. Please take a look here to find out all the news from the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme. In this issue, you can read about the experiences of several raptor workers in the field and how you may be able to help with a Kestrel study in Northern Ireland.

Back issues of Scottish Raptor can be accessed here.

If you would like to sign up to receive future issues of the newsletter by email then please complete the form here.

The SRMS is pleased to announce the publication of its annual report covering the 2018 breeding season. Find out how Scottish raptors fared in 2018 by reading the latest report which can be accessed here. Supplementary data tables linked from the report can be accessed here.

The latest issue of Scottish Raptor is now available. Please take a look here to find out all the news from the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme. Find out about recent developments within the Scheme, how an Orkney-born Hen Harrier was discovered in the Netherlands and how you can help to identify constraints that prevent researchers from getting involved in raptor monitoring and sampling.

Back issues of Scottish Raptor can be accessed here.

If you would like to sign up to receive future issues of the newsletter by email then please complete the form here.