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April 2025 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 24 Brent Geese Out Head 1st 2 Great White Egrets Angle Park GP 1st 1 Green Woodpecker Out Head 1st 2 Greenshanks Out Head 1st 27 Long-tailed Ducks Out Head 1st 15 Pintails Out Head 1st 10 Sand Martins Out Head 1st 5 Shovelers Angle Park GP 1st 6 Slavonian Grebes Out Head 1st 12
March 2025 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Avocet Eden Estuary LNR 1st 1 Barn Owl Pattiesmuir 1st 3 Great White Egrets Angle Park GP 1st 1 Great White Egret Loch Fitty 1st 1 Marsh Harrier (female) Mugdrum Island 1st 2 Marsh Harriers (adult female, 2nd CY) Newburgh 1st 1 White-winged Scoter (adult drake) Methil 1st 28 Whooper Swans Loch Fitty 2nd
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Automated Bird Call Detector Installed at Fife Ness
An automated BirdWeather PUC bird call detector was installed near Fife Ness at the end of April 2025 to help monitor bird migration. The detections and associated recordings can be viewed and listened to via
Mainland Fife List -October 2024 update
The mainland Fife Bird List has been updated and as of 19 October 2024 stood at 348 species (pending acceptance of some records by the relevant rarities committees). The full list can be viewed here.
FBC Annual Awards
Winners of the 2023 FBC annual awards were announced at the April 2024 Indoor Meeting: Rarest Bird Found in Mainland Fife – Jared Wilson, Stejneger’s Scoter, Lower Largo, April-May 2023. Photograph of the Year –
Focus On: Birds and the Law
Birds and the Law The following is a summary of a presentation provided to Fife Bird Club members in March 2024. Refer to the respective acts for full details. Behaviour around birds and nests Under
Focus On: Black Guillemot in Fife
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