Moray Bird Club (the Moray branch of SOC)

The North Sea Bird Club 1979-2019
This new book contains much of interest and relevance to our area and comes thoroughly recommended. It has been short-listed by Birdwatch magazine as its ‘Book of the Year’.
Click on the thumbnail above for more information and how to order a copy.
Birds in Moray & Nairn 2021
The report on birds in Moray & Nairn in 2021 can now be found here:
Birds in Moray & Nairn 2021
Alternatively, look under ‘Bird Reports’ for this and previous editions
First dates for summer migrants in 2024:
Redstart 1 Dulsie Bridge 18/5
Garden Warbler 1 Warren Wood 15/5
Little Tern 1 Findhorn Bay 14/5
Spotted Flycatcher 1 Knockando 12/5
Arctic Tern 2 Lossiemouth 10/5
Swift 6 Kinloss 6/5
Sedge Warbler 12+ Duffus Castle 3/5
Whitethroat 1 Blacksboat 30/4
Cuckoo 1 Ballantruan 29/4
Grasshopper Warbler 1 W. Regaule 27/4
Tree Pipit 2 Whiteash Hill Wood 24/4
Common Tern 1 Rothes 17/4
Whimbrel 1 past Tugnet 14/4
Blackcap 1 Knock of Alves 13/4
Tree Pipit 1 Orton 13/4
Little Ringed Plover 1 Moray 10/4
Common Sandpiper 6 Spey estuary 10/4
House Martin 1 Cawdor 7/4
Willow Warbler 1 Tugnet 1/4
Ring Ouzel 1 Glen Avon 1/4
Swallow 1 Sanquhar Loch 1/4
Wheatear 1 Ailnack gorge 30/3
Osprey 1 west Moray 19/3
Sand Martin 4 Loch Spynie 18/3
Sandwich Tern 2 Nairn 18/3
Chiffchaff 3 Cloddach quarry 12/3
The Birds of Moray & Nairn
Thirty years on from the first book, the new edition of The Birds of Moray & Nairn has now been published. Look under ‘Publications’ – ‘The Birds of Moray & Nairn’ for more information and sample pages.
AGE CATEGORIES OF GULLS
Glaucous Gull [2CY], Lossie estuary March 2019 (David Main)
For example, such as the Glaucous Gull pictured above:
From hatching in June 2018 until 31 December 2018 = 1st calendar year (or 1CY)
From 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2019 = 2nd calendar year (or 2CY), as pictured
and so on through 3CY [1 January 2020-31 December 2020] etc.
Birds with no sign of immaturity = adult