Summary of Seabird Counts on the Islands in the Firth of Forth

1998

Bass Rock

Craigleith

Lamb

Fidra

Eyebr-oughty

Inchkeith

Carr Craig

Inchcolm

Haystack

Inch-mickery + Cow & Calves

Inch Garvie / Forth Bridge

Long Craig

May Isle

Total

Fulmar (AOS)

x

x

x

217

332

190

32

215

365

1,351+

Cormorant (nests)

x

125

0

75

113

0

313+

Shag (nests)

x

x

x

86

25

3

2

2

25

621

764+

Gannet (nests)

x

x

Eider (nests)

x

x

x

250

x

x

1

x

x

x

6

866

1,123+

Great B-b Gull (nests)

x

x

x

2

1

0

1

1

c 14

5+

Lesser B-b Gull (nests)

x

x

c60 mixed

660

x

2

x

0

x

15

1,533

2,210+

Herring Gull (nests)

x

x

c60 mixed

1,540

x

x

50

x

15-20

x

x

2,607

4,212+

Kittiwake (nests)

x

x

x

243

385

129

4,306

5,063+

Common Tern (nests)

9

10

> 63

127

209

Arctic Tern (nests)

c451

451

Roseate Tern (nests)

8

Sandwich Tern (nests)

2

2

Razorbill (pairs/sites)

x

x

x

86

75

2

3,859 b

163+  +3,859 b

Guillemot (birds on cliffs)

x

x

3,200

215 s

84

26,963

30,247+  +215sites

Puffin (birds unless otherwise stated)

x

x

x

1,100

1,400

19

12

42,000

44,531+

AOB/AOS/AOT=Apparently occupied burrows/sites/territories; x=breeding; 0=none breeding;  c=circa; mixed=two species (eg Herring and LBB Gulls) counted together; b=birds; s=sites

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