Birds
Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:
Notes about birds and eggs, June 1887
Notes about birds and eggs including that 'Tern eggs soon get addled' and 'Teal = Crannla[c]han Bheag'. Some of the notes are abbreviated making their meaning unclear. Each line of text except for the last line and a half has been scored through horizontally in pencil.
Notes about the bird 'buigire' [puffin], June 1887
Notes about the bird 'buigire' [puffin] that they arrive and leave Hiorta/St Kilda every year, flying in clouds, in circles, darkening the sky and landing on rocks.
Notes about the bird fulmar and St Kildans, June 1887
Notes about the bird fulmar and St Kildans that on Hiorta/St Kilda each fulmar is valued at seven pence each between 'oil bird + feather'; that men keep a 'goile Sulaire' on their belts into which they put a fulmar's bill for pouring out oil; describing how fulmars are caught; how the carcasses are divided and how wages are deducted for loss of any birds. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Notes about the nesting habits of birds, 24 June 1887
Notes about the nesting habits of birds collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] including that the chicks of the cearc-fhiar, feadag and rua-chearc leave the nest as soon as they hatch and that the gob-da-lire nests at the edge of lakes. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Notes and story about eagles, June 1887
Notes and story about eagles including that a young eagle does not leave the nest until it can hunt for itself, that Calum Brocar got ten shillings for an eagle, that an eagle 'cuts rope like [a] knife' and that fishermen off Bhatairsteinn/Waterstein found an eagle 'with its two claws into a large Ugsa [coal-fish]. both dead.' Each line of text has been scored through horizontally.
Notes on a mill at Loch a chrombaich Farm and accompanying sketches, 9 July 1870
Notes on rooks in South Uist, 1877
Notes on how rooks arrive and leave South Uist [Uibhist a Deas] on the autumn and spring winds.
Notes on the birds 'Langai', 'peata rua' and 'Duieanach', 1901
Notes on the birds 'Langai' [langaid or guillemot], 'peata rua' [puffin] and 'Duieanach' [probably dubh-eun or coot] about the quantity of siolag [sìolag or sand-eel] they can hold in their bills.
Notes on the birds Langai[d], Dui and Seigire, 23 May 1869
Notes on the birds Langai[d], Dui and Seigire collected from Roderick MacNeil, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay stating that the Langaid has eggs but the Dui does not but that twenty years before the Dui had eggs before the Langai. The seigire or kittiwake nests are often washed away, as they are made from mud on the face of rocks. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.
Notes on wildlife, 21 May 1877
Notes on the flora and fauna of A Mheribh Bheag [A' Bheiribhe Bheag, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] including glas-fhaoileagan [herring gulls], buttercups and wild kale. Includes sketch of a perpendicular hole found on the south east of the island.