Object Type: academia

2002.129.1

Copied extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.

Sections about thrushes, fieldfares, blackbirds, wheatears, whinchats, stonechats, redbreasts, wrens, chiff-chaffs, wagtails, pipits, swallows, martins, finches and sparrows.

2002.129.2

Copied extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.

Sections about linnets, buntings, starlings, choughs, jackdaws, ravens, crows, rooks, larks, swifts, cuckoos, owls, falcons, merlins and kestrels.

2002.129.3

Copied extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.

Sections about cormorants, shags, gannets, herons, geese, swans, ducks and doves.

2002.129.4

Copied extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.

Sections on grouse, partridges, quails, rails, crakes, moorhens, coots, plovers, lapwings, turnstones, oyster-catchers, phalaropes, woodcocks, snipe, dunlins, stints, sandpipers, knots, sanderlings, ruffs, greenshanks, godwits, curlews, whimbrels and terns.

2002.119.2

Draft report about the aggregate resources and requirements on Tiree by Dr Paul J Henney and Jon Merritt of the British Geological Survey.

Review of the available sand and gravel resources on the island and consideration of alternative sources with a view to ensuring that local aggregate requirements are met while keeping the environmental impact to a minimum, plus O/S map showing sites of aggregate resources.

2002.119.3

Report on the Reef RSPB reserve by Alan Leitch and John Bowler.

Plan to `maintain and enhance the Reef as one of the largest and best examples in the Hebrides of an uncultivated, cattle-grazed, wet and dry machair mosaic which supports internationally and nationally important bird assembalges, botanical communities and geomorphological features.`

2002.103.1

Photocopied sheets about Rotorplan, the UK`s 1950s Air Attack Early Warning System.

Photocopy of webpage (www.blackiston.btinternet.co.uk) about Rotorplan, the UK`s Air Attack Early Warning System which cost in the region of £240 million by the late 1950s when it was declared redundant, and photocopied pages describing type of installation for Rotorplan sites including Scarinish (the site on Beinn Gott).