Booklet `Birds of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.
Information on bird sightings on Tiree in 1913 based mainly on the notes and observations of Peter Anderson who was the first gamekeeper on the island in 1886.
1997.169.1
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1997.126.1
Photocopied extract from an unknown publication about game shooting.
Article about a book `Record Bags & Shooting Records` by Sir Hugh Gladstone, a Borders landowner, shooter and ornithologist, with a snippet about Tiree where over 1,000 snipe were bagged to two guns over ten days shooting.
1997.138.1
Photocopied extract from `Outer Isles` by Ada Goodrich Freer, pp 1-61.
Account of a visit to Tiree in 1894.
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.
2002.129.5
Copied extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.
(Incomplete) Sections on gulls, skuas, razorbills and guillemots.
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.`
2002.58.8
Minidisk/audio cassette recording of talk on birds by Dr John Bowler, RSPB, in 2002.
Dr John Bowler, the RSPB`s Conservation Officer on Tiree, gives a talk about birds on Tiree in An Iodhlann on 20th February 2002. Includes a discussion about the problems created by Greylag Geese.