The Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme has published a field guide which provides expert advice on surveying and monitoring raptors.

Now onto its third edition the Raptors: A Field Guide for Surveys and Monitoring details the survey techniques that should be employed to successfully survey each of the raptor species which regularly occurs in Britain.

Chapters can be accessed through following the links below:

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Species accounts
  
  • Honey Buzzard
    
  • Red Kite
  • White-tailed Eagle
  • Marsh Harrier
  • Hen Harrier
  • Montagu’s Harrier
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • Common Buzzard
    
  • Golden Eagle
    
  • Osprey
  • Barn Owl
    
  • Snowy Owl
    
  • Little Owl
    
  • Tawny Owl
    
  • Long-eared Owl
    
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Common Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Eurasian Hobby
    
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Northern Raven
  • Species occurring irregularly in Britain & Ireland
    
• Part 3: Feathers
  
• Part 4: The development of raptor chicks
  
• End sections