Bizarre heading, but here’s the story. Pet owners on the Western Isles have been asked by the RSPB to add bells to the collars of their cats to help protect one of Scotland’s rarest birds. Conservation officer Martin Scott said corncrake have been killed by cats after migrating to the islands to breed. He said […]
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Corncrake Results 2009
The Corncrakes will have benefited from the largely warm and still conditions on Tiree during June, but unknown in August with this wet weather we’ve had. However, we continue to hear their distinctive call all over the island in August. The final count this year was 392 calling males, very similar to 2008 and 07, […]
