| Summary of Seabird Counts on the Islands in the Firth of Forth | ||||||||||||||
| 1959 | 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) | 7 | 23 | 7 | 103 | 1 | |||||||||
| Cormorant (nests) | 44 | |||||||||||||
| Shag (nests) | x | 10+ | c35 | 352 | ||||||||||
| Gannet (nests) | x | |||||||||||||
| Eider (nests) | x | x | x | 7-8 | x | |||||||||
| Great B-b Gull (nests) | ||||||||||||||
| Lesser B-b Gull (nests) | 3+ | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Herring Gull (nests) | ?400-500 | 20 | hundreds | x | 1 | |||||||||
| Kittiwake (nests) | ?1280 | c 400 | 16 | |||||||||||
| Common Tern (nests) | 300-350 | 500+ mixed | ||||||||||||
| Arctic Tern (nests) | 75-100 | 500+ mixed | ||||||||||||
| Roseate Tern (nests) | 2-3 | 300-400 | ||||||||||||
| Sandwich Tern (nests) | 70 | 630 | ||||||||||||
| Razorbill (pairs/sites) | quite a few pairs | |||||||||||||
| Guillemot (birds on cliffs) | many dozens | |||||||||||||
| Puffin (birds unless otherwise stated) | 75-100 pairs | |||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
| Click on the tabs below to select a year | Revised figure from CEH,June 2019 | |||||||||||||
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