Clyde bird projects - at January 2022
Where there are opportunities to get involved, contact details are given either in the list below or in the A-Z listing of Groups / Projects in the Clyde Area
| Lead | Area | Subject | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTO | Clyde | Breeding Bird Survey | 47 squares are allocated (out of a total of 62 available squares) in BTO 'Lanark, Renfrew and Dunbarton' region. BTO Regional Rep: Gordon Brady |
| BTO | Clyde | BTO Garden Birdwatch | 24 participants in Glasgow City, but others in the surrounding area. BTO Regional Rep: Gordon Brady |
| BTO | Clyde | Heronries Census | 17 sites allocated; 45 currently on the system. BTO Regional Rep: Gordon Brady |
| BTO | Clyde | Nesting Neighbours / Nest Record Scheme | 338 records submitted for 2019. BTO Regional Rep: Gordon Brady |
| BTO | Clyde | WeBS | Local Organiser: John Clark BTO Regional Rep: Gordon Brady |
| BTO | Clyde | BirdTrack | A partnership project between the BTO, the RSPB, Birdwatch Ireland, the SOC and the Welsh Ornithological Society for observers to store and manage their own personal records . 111,573 records were submitted for Clyde area in 2021 |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Argyll | Seabirds | Long term monitoring on Sanda (Kintyre) is now very restricted due to "access issues" so our study which also started in 1984 is now restricted to 1-2 visits a year for Manx Shearwaters and Auks |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Ayrshire & Dumfries & Galloway | RAS (Retrapping Adults for Survival) BTO project looking into survival rates of species not covered by CES | Eider on Horse Isle since 2001 is the only one for this species in the UK. Pied Flycatcher in woods near Mennock since 1995 (we ring Redstart and Nuthatch as well) |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde | General ringing (Constant Effort Sites, mist netting breeding passerines and estimating breeding success and population levels. | Combined effort ringing 10-13K new birds a year of 100-120 species annually. This generates c250 BTO recoveries a year but with us colour ringing up to 19 species we get about 1000 other reports. |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde | Jack Snipe | Since Feb 1994 we have caught Jack Snipes every winter, it is the longest running project of it's type in the UK |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde | Migration studies | Migration studies on warblers, finches are ongoing at a wide range of sites |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde | Tree Sparrow Nest boxes and monitoring | Led by Paul Baker Erecting nest boxes for Tree Sparrow at Millichen farm to secure glasgows only colony of Tree Sparrow, and to expand range. Monitoring by metal and Dark Blue Darvic rings and camera to identify wintering range to direct suplementary feeding to increase winter survival. |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde & Ayrshire | Other projects | Including colour ringing of Whimbrel, Golden Plover, Twite, Skylark and wagtails on Arran, woodcock and owl trapping at night and are very heavily involved in the BTO Scotland project satellite tagging SE Owls as well |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde & Dumfries & Galloway | Nest Boxes | Glasgow Uni is currently ringing 1.5K tit chicks a year as part of their ongoing studies, sites are spread from the City centre to Loch Lomond |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde & Falkirk | Waders | Waders here as well and a smaller number on the Clyde est. These latter projects have combined over the last 3 years to look at the migration flyway across Scotland using the Forth/Clyde valleys. |
| Clyde Ringing Group | Clyde, Ayrshire & Falkirk | Gulls & terns | Colour ringing of large Gulls on various Clyde Islands and urban sites, small gulls at colonies (chicks) and adults in Glasgow and the Inner Forth (Blackness) |
| Friends of Glasgow’s LNRs | Clyde (Glasgow) | Nest box projects at Dawsholm Park LNR, Hogganfield Park LNR, Cardowan Moss LNR, Bishop Loch LNR, Dams to Darnley LNR and Bingham’s Pond SINC (all in Glasgow). | Led by Jim Coyle. Erecting, cleaning & monitoring the use of c. 50 ‘Schwegler’ woodcrete nest boxes. More volunteers welcome |
| Friends of Linn Park | Clyde | Nestbox projects in Linn Park, Battlefield and Muirend | Led by Mike Sinclair. Construction, erection, maintenance & monitoring of circa 150 nestboxes carried out by about a dozen volunteers across 3 discrete Glasgow sites. Chicks ringed via Clyde Ringing Group |
| Greenland WF Goose study Group | Clyde | Greenland Whitefront counts | Regular counts throughout the winter season in their main wintering area near Loch Lomond.. |
| Private Project - Tom Byars | Clyde | Lesser Whitethroat habitat restoration | at Brownside Braes, Paisley. Opportunity for volunteers to get involved via Rangers there (0141 618 2591) |
| Private Study - Chris Waltho | Various | Eider counts - post-moult counts in Firth of Clyde | Chris Waltho coordinator. Annual since 1996 |
| Private Study - Kevin Sinclair | Glasgow | Tree Sparrows | From April 2022, the project will monitor Tree Sparrow populations at Flenders Farm (Clarkston, Glasgow). Circa 40 nestboxes will be monitored throughout the breeding season. Adults and Pulli will be colour-ringed (Darvic) under a BTO-approved project. |
| Private Study - Paul Baker | Clyde | Winter gull counts in Glasgow Parks | Carried out by member of Clyde Ringing Group |
| Private Study - Stephen Inglis | Clyde | Waders | Breeding and wintering wader monitoring on the Eaglesham Moor |
| Raptor Study Groups | Clyde | Monitoring breeding raptors, owls and Raven | Two RSGs cover most of the Clyde area - Central Scotland and South Strathclyde. For more details, please contact scottishraptorsg@gmail.com |
| RSPB | Clyde | Big Garden Birdwatch | Last weekend of every January with approximately 10,000 people taking part in the Clyde area in 2021 and over a million in the UK |
| RSPB and others | Clyde | Inchinnan Farmland Birds | In its early stages but installing nestboxes around Inchinnan area to benefit, especially, tree sparrows |
| SOC | Clyde | Boxes for Barnies, Lochwinnoch | With financial support from Heritage Lottery Fund (via Garnock Connections), 19 boxes were contructed, installed and now monitored. Lead: Zul Bhatia |
| SOC | Clyde | Collation of bird records & preparation of the bird report | Iain Gibson & Val Wilson. |
| SOC | Clyde | Wildlife crops | Looking at possibility of putting in crops to benefit primarily wintering birds. Looking at possibilities in the S renfrewshire area. Leads: Liz Parsons & Zul Bhatia |
| SOC | Clyde | Writing a Trial Bird report for 2010 | c20 volunteers. To get involved in helpig with future reports, please contact us ia the branch website or clydesocbranch@gmail.com |
| SOC / BTO | Clyde | BirdTrack training | Held on Zoom in Dec 20 with 30 attendees. Organised by Zul Bhatia. Opportunities for the future? |
| SRMS | Various | Monitoring Buzzard, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk & Raven | Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme has a Raptor Patch survey to help generate additional information on the more abundant, but under-recorded raptor species in Scotland |
| WWT | Clyde | International Goose Counts | Counts each winter of White-fronts, Greylag and Pink-foots leaving their roosts pre-dawn. Not clear yet who is taking over this programme after WWT give it up in March 2022 |
| WWT | Clyde | International Swan Census | John Clark (local organiser of WeBS counts) leads on this. Not clear yet who is taking over this programme after WWT give it up in March 2022 |