Technical report | Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme

The detailed methods that have been employed to produce trends in breeding numbers and productivity can be found here.

The specific objective of the report are:

To summarise the availability or otherwise of national and regional trends for each SRMS species (the latter at the scale of Natural Heritage Zones – NHZs; and Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme – SRMS – regions).
To summarise caveats associated with trends and explain why these have arisen.
To explain the relationship of regional and national trends with the availability of trends from individual study areas for each SRMS species.
To summarise gaps in coverage/trends (regional and national) for each species and for the SRMS overall.
To suggest options for enhancements to SRMS monitoring in future to improve data for the production of trends.
To present options for addressing gaps in coverage, including the role of patch-based monitoring.