Tag Archives: birds

2003.26.1

Press release about an addition to the BOU British List (of birds).

An Ascension frigatebird was found exhausted on Tiree on 9/7/1953 and died later the same day. The bird is now added to the British List. Additional information about the British Ornithologists` Union.

1997.239.2

Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacLean of Barrapol talking to John Donald MacLean in 1997.

Hugh MacLean (Eòghann Dhòmhnaill Eòghainn Mhòr) of Barrapol talks to John Donald MacLean in 1997 about shipwrecks on Tiree’s coast, a song about the Vivo composed by John Brown of Kilmoluaig, the burial ground of a shipwrecked crew at Balevullin, the healthy diet of his younger days, changes in the fishing grounds, shooting duck, geese and cormorants, eating seafood and seaweed, his school-days at Heylipol School, his interest in piping and Tiree pipers and fiddlers, the names of the cliffs caves and fishing rocks at Kennavara and his wartime experiences. Tha Eòghann Dhòmhnaill Eòghainn Mhòr a Goirtean Dòmhnall a’ bruidhinn ri Teòn Dòmhnall a’ Mhuilinn ann an 1997 mu na luing-bhriseadh air na tràighean mun cuairt Thiriodh, òran a chaidh a’ sgrìobhadh mun Vivo le Iain ’IcIllDhuinn a Cill Moluaig, an cladh aig sgioba long-bhriseadh ann am Baile Mhuilinn, am biadh fallain a fhuair e ann an làithean òige, atharrachaidhean ann àiteachan iasgaich, an t-sealgaireachd lacha, geòidh agus sgairbh, ag itheadh biadh-cladaich agus feamainn, a làithean-sgoile an Sgoil na Mòintich, a spies ann am pìobaireachd, pìobairean agus fìdhlearan Thiriodh, ainmeannan nan stùcannan, uamhan agus carraigean ann an Ceann a’ Bhara agus deuchainn an àm a’ chogaidh.

2000.43.5

The Sixth Argyll Bird Report by Argyll Bird Club, 1990

Systematic list of 1989 bird sightings, results of 1989 bird ringing, first arrival dates of some common summer migrants to Argyll, and a nestbox study of blue tit, great tit and pied flycatcher – third year results.

1997.191.4

Bound source material for WEA Scotland Coll and Tiree Summer School 1994.

Source material about the geology and ornithology of Coll and Tiree for a WEA Scotland Summer School held in May 1994.