Wildife and Bird Watching in Dumfries and Galloway
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Recent Dumfries and Galloway news
- Coal power station receives most objections in Scottish planning history
- Whooper swans’ record-breaking early arrival
- Scotland’s spectacular geese migration under way
- Langholm Moor project – Can grouse co-exist with harriers?
- Osprey update July 2011
- Two ospreys ready to fledge at Wigtown Bay
- Osprey update May 2011
- RSPB denounces Scottish landowners call for raptor cull
- Osprey update 2011
- 4 Golden eagles amongst raptors poisoned in Scotland in 2010
- Swan dismembered in Scotland
- Otter cub saved by dog walkers in Scotland
- Scotland’s farmers praised for supporting wildlife this winter
- Record-breaking numbers of pink-footed geese on Solway Firth
- 20 Feral beavers to be trapped in Scotland
More Dumfries and Galloway news
- Great time to see starling 'swarms'
- Geese flocking to Scotland in record numbers
- Red kites boost for Scottish business
- Scottish first as Northern Parula spotted on Tiree and glossy ibis in Dumfries
- Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 2009
- Wildlife crime results in £10,000 fine for coal mining company
- Two colonies of world’s oldest living species found in Scotland
- Scottish sea fishing festival results
- Worst year on record for bird poisoning in Scotland – 2009
- Osprey update 2010 - Remarkable Loch of Lowes bird lays 58th egg!
- RSPB Scotland appeals for members' help to purchase 150 acres of saltmarsh on the Solway Firth
- Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UK
- Red squirrel project success in Scotland
- 15th Dumfries Red kite poisoned
- Red squirrel strongholds to be launched in Scotland
Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 20092009 was another shocking year for the persecution of birds of prey with incidents of shooting, trapping and poisoning, according to the RSPB's 20th annual Birdcrime report.
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2009 marked the highest number of confirmed poisoning incidents discovered in a single year in Scotland in the past two decades, according to an annual report by RSPB Scotland.
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The bird thought to be oldest breeding female of its kind ever recorded in the UK returned for the 20th consecutive year to the Loch of the Lowes wildlife reserve, astonishing wildlife experts.
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A pair of spoonbills have successfully bred for the first time in Scotland and only the second time in the UK. An adult pair have raised and fledged three chicks on Kirkcudbright Bay in Dumfries and Galloway.
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