Raptors

by James Macdonald Lockhart

  Hunter, James – The Making of the Crofting Community (John Donald, 1982)

  Lawson, Bill – The Teampull at Northton and The Church at Scarista: Harris Churches in their Historical Setting (Bill Lawson Publications, 1993)

  Lockie, J. D. – ‘The Breeding Density of the Golden Eagle and Fox in Relation to Food Supply in Wester Ross, Scotland’ (Scottish Naturalist, 71, no. 2, 67–77, 1964)

  — and Stephen, D. – ‘Eagles, Lambs and Land Management on Lewis’ (Journal of Animal Ecology, 28, no. 1, 43–50, 1959)

  Love, John A. – Eagles (Whittet Books, 1989)

  Lynch, Michael – Scotland: A New History (Pimlico, 1995)

  MacGillivray, William – A Hebridean Naturalist’s Journal 1817–1818 (Acair, 1996)

  Macpherson, H. B. – The Home Life of a Golden Eagle (Witherby & Co., 1909)

  Moisley, H. A. – Uig: A Hebridean Parish (Geographical Field Group, 1961)

  Newton, Ian – Population Ecology of Raptors (T. & A. D. Poyser, 1979)

  Tomkies, Mike – On Wing and Wild Water (Jonathan Cape, 1987)

  — Golden Eagle Years (Jonathan Cape, 1994)

  Watson, Jeff – The Golden Eagle (Second Edition) (T. & A. D. Poyser, 2010)

  Whitfield, D. P., Fielding, A. H., McLeod, D. R. A. and Haworth, P. F. – A conservation framework for golden eagles: implications for their conservation and management in Scotland (Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report no. 193, 2008, [ROAME no. F05AC306])

  Whitfield, P. – ‘Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) ecology and conservation issues’ (Scottish Natural Heritage Review, no. 132, 2000)

  IV Osprey

  Abbott, C. G. – The Home-Life of the Osprey (Witherby & Co., 1911)

  Bagnold, R. A. – The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes (Chapman & Hall, 1971)

  Bain, George – History of Nairnshire (Nairnshire Telegraph, 1893)

  Ball, Philip – Flow: Nature’s Patterns – A Tapestry in Three Parts (Oxford University Press, 2009)

  Brown, Philip – The Scottish Ospreys: From Extinction to Survival (William Heinemann, 1979)

  — and Waterston, George – The Return of the Osprey (Collins, 1962)

  Dennis, Roy – A Life of Ospreys (Whittles, 2008)

  Fenech, Natalino – Fatal Flight: The Maltese Obsession with Killing Birds (Quiller Press, 1992)

  Forestry Commission Scotland – The History of Culbin (Forestry Commission, 2012)

  Gordon, Seton – In Search of Northern Birds (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941)

  MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin – The Buried Barony (Robert Hale, 1949)

  Macpherson, H. A. – The Visitation of Pallas’s Sand-Grouse to Scotland in 1888, together with an account of its nesting, habits, and migrations (R. H. Porter, 1889)

  — A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland (David Douglas, 1892)

  Poole, Alan F. – Ospreys: A Natural and Unnatural History (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

  Rubinstein, Julian – ‘Operation Easter: The Hunt for Illegal Egg Collectors’ (New Yorker, 22 July 2013)

  St John, Charles – The Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands (John Murray, 1948, first published 1846)

  — A Tour in Sutherlandshire (David Douglas, 1884)

  Thomson, David – Nairn in Darkness and Light (Hutchinson, 1987)

  V Sea Eagle

  Cameron, A. D. – Go Listen to the Crofters: The Napier Commission and Crofting a Century Ago (Acair, 1986)

  Craig, David – On the Crofter’s Trail (Pimlico, 1997)

  Crawford, Carol L. – Bryophytes of Native Woods: A Field Guide to the Common Mosses and Liverworts of Scotland and Ireland’s Native Woodlands (Native Woodlands Discussion Group, 2002)

  Drever, James – ‘“Taboo” Words Among Shetland Fishermen’ (Old-Lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland, 10, part 6, 235–240, 1946)

  Edmondston, Thomas – An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland & Orkney Dialect; with some derivations of names of places in Shetland (Adam & Charles Black, 1866)

  Fenton, Alexander – ‘The Tabu Language of the Fishermen of Orkney and Shetland’ (Ethnologia Europaea, 2–3, 118–122, 1968–69)

  Fraser Darling, F. – Natural History in the Highlands & Islands (Collins, 1947)

  Gaskell, Philip – Morvern Transformed: A Highland Parish in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1968)

  Gelling, Margaret – Place-Names in the Landscape: The Geographical Roots of Britain’s Place-Names (Phoenix Press, 2000)

  Gray, Robert – The Birds of the West of Scotland, Including the Outer Hebrides (Thomas Murray & Son, 1871)

  Harvie-Brown, J. A. and Buckley, T. E. – A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides (David Douglas, 1892)

  Jakobsen, Jakob – An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (David Nutt, 1928)

  Lodge, George E. – Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist (Gurney and Jackson, 1946)

  Love, John A. – The Return of the Sea Eagle (Cambridge University Press, 1983)

  — A Saga of Sea Eagles (Whittles, 2013)

  McClure, J. Derrick – ‘Distinctive semantic fields in the Orkney and Shetland dialects, and their use in the local literature’, in Millar, Robert McColl (ed.) – Northern Lights, Northern Words. Selected Papers from the FRLSU Conference, Kirkwall 2009 (Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland, 58–69, 2010)

  Mackenzie, Osgood – A Hundred Years in the Highlands (The National Trust for Scotland, 1988)

  Macleod, Norman – Morvern: A Highland Parish (Birlinn, 2002, first published 1863)

  Marquiss, M., Madders, M., Irvine, J. and Carss, D. N. – The Impact of White-tailed Eagles on Sheep Farming on Mull: Final Report (Scottish Executive, 2004)

  Martin, Martin – A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695 (Birlinn, 1999)

  Morton Boyd, John and Bowes, D. R. (eds) – The Natural Environment of the Inner Hebrides (The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1983)

  Murray, W. H. – The Hebrides (Heinemann, 1966)

  Napier Commission – Evidence Taken by Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the Conditions of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Neill & Company, 1884)

  — Report of Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. With Appendices (Neill & Company, 1884)

  Saxby, Henry L. – The Birds of Shetland with Observations on their Habits, Migration, and Occasional Appearance (Maclachlan & Stewart, 1874)

  Scottish Natural Heritage – Is lamb survival in the Scottish Uplands related to the presence of breeding white-tailed eagles (Haeliaeetus albicilla) as well as other livestock predators and environmental variables: A pilot study into sea eagle predation on lambs in the Gairloch area (Commissioned Report no. 370, SNH, 2010)

  Thornber, Iain – The Gaelic Bards of Morvern (Iain Thornber, 1985)

  Willgohs, Johan Fr. – The White-tailed Eagle Haliaëtus Albicilla Albicilla (Linné) in Norway (Norwegian Universities Press, 1961)

  VI Goshawk

  Aitken, A. J. – ‘Scots’, in McArthur, Tom (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the English Language (Oxford University Press, 1992)

  Diener, Alexander C. and Hagen, Joshua – Borders: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012)

  Forestry Commission – Britain’s Forests: Kielder (HMSO, 1950)

  Glauser, Beat – The Scottish-English Linguistic Border (Francke Verlag, Bern, 1974)

  Jameson, Conor Mark – Looking for the Goshawk (Bloomsbury, 2013)

  Kay, Billy – Scots: The Mither Tongue (Mainstream, 2006)

  Kenward, Robert – The Goshawk (T. & A. D. Poyser, 2007)

  Kenward, R. E. and Lindsay, I. M. (eds) – Understanding the Goshawk (The International Association for Falconry and Conservation of Birds of Prey, 1981)

  Lamont, Claire and Rossington, Michael (eds) – Romanticism’s Debatable Lands (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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  Llamas, Carmen – ‘Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border’, in Llamas, Carmen and Watt, Dominic (eds), Language and Identities (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

  McCulloch, Christine – ‘Dam Decisions and Pipe Dreams: The Political Ecology of Reservoir Schemes (Teesdale, Farndale and Kielder Water) in North East England’ (D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005)

  Macdonald, Helen – H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape, 2014)

  Mack, James Logan – The Border Line: From the Solway Firth to the North Sea, along the Marches of Scotland and England (Oliver & Boyd, 1926)

  Mackay Mackenzie, W. – ‘The Debateable Land’ (Scottish Historical Review, 30, no. 110, 109–125, 1951)

  Marquiss, M. and Newton, I. – ‘The Goshawk in Britain’ (British Birds, 75, no. 6, 243–260, 1982)

  Neville, Cynthia J. – Violence, Custom and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh University Press, 1998)

  Northumbrian Water Authority – Kielder Water Scheme: A Bibliography (Library and Information Service, 1982)

  Robson, Eric – The Border Line (Frances Lincoln, 2006)

  White, T. H. – The Goshawk (Jonathan Cape, 1953)

  Wilson, Keith and Leathart, Scott (eds) – The Kielder Forests: A Forestry Commission Guide (Forestry Commission, 1982)

  VII Kestrel

  Baillie, S. R., Marchant, J. H., Leech, D. I., Massimino, D., Eglington, S. M., Johnston, A., Noble, D. G., Barimore, C., Kew, A. J., Downie, I. S., Risely, K. and Robinson, R. A. – Bird Trends 2012: Trends in numbers, breeding success and survival for UK breeding birds (British Trust for Ornithology Research Report, 644, 2013)

  Dobinson, Colin – Fields of Deception: Britain’s Bombing Decoys of World War II (Methuen, 2000)

  Evans, Darren M., Redpath, Stephen M., Elston, David A., Evans, Sharon A., Mitchell, Ruth J. and Dennis, Peter – ‘To graze or not to graze? Sheep, voles, forestry and nature conservation in the British uplands’ (Journal of Applied Ecology, 43, no. 3, 499–505, June 2006)

  Hesketh, Phoebe – My Aunt Edith (Lancashire County Books, 1992)

  Hutchinson, Roger – The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme (Birlinn, 2003)

  Lane, Dave – Winter Hill Scrapbook (Dave Lane, 2009)

  Nicolson, Nigel – Lord of the Isles: Lord Leverhulme in the Hebrides (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960)

  Rawlinson, John – About Rivington (Nelson Brothers, 1981)

  Riddle, Gordon – Seasons with the Kestrel (Blandford, 1992)

  Risely, K., Massimino, D., Newson, S. E., Eaton, M. A., Musgrove, A. J., Noble, D. G., Procter, D. and Baillie, S. R. – The Breeding Bird Survey 2012 (BTO Research Report, 645, 2013)

  Salveson, Paul – Will Yo Come O Sunday Mornin? The 1896 Battle for Winter Hill (Red Rose Publishing, 1982)

  Shrubb, Michael – The Kestrel (Hamlyn, 1993)

  Smith, M. D. – Leverhulme’s Rivington (Nelson Brothers, 1984)

  — About Horwich (Nelson Brothers, 1988)

  Tattersall, F. H., Avundo, A. E, Manley, W. J., Hart. B. J. and Macdonald, D. W. – ‘Managing set-aside for field voles (Microtus agrestis)’ (Biological Conservation, 96, no. 1, 123–128, 2000)

  Videler, J. J., Weihs, D. and Daan, S. – ‘Intermittent gliding in the hunting flight of the kestrel (Falco tinnunculus L.)’ (Journal of Experimental Biology, 102, 1–12, 1983)

  Village, Andrew – The Kestrel (T. & A. D. Poyser, 1990)

  VIII Montagu’s Harrier

  Arroyo, Beatriz – ‘Breeding Ecology and Nest Dispersion of Montagu’s Harrier (Circus pygargus) in Central Spain’ (D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995)

  Childers, J. W. (ed.) – Lord Orford’s Voyage round the Fens in 1774 (Cambridge Libraries Publications, 1988)

  Clarke, Roger – Harriers of the British Isles (Shire Natural History, 1990)

  — Montagu’s Harrier (Arlequin Press, 1996)

  Darby, H. C. – The Changing Fenland (Cambridge University Press, 1983)

  Dee, Tim – Four Fields (Jonathan Cape, 2013)

  Delamain, Jacques – Why Birds Sing (Victor Gollancz, 1932)

  Dormer, Sally – Twenty Objects for Twenty Years: The Ramsey Abbey Censer and Incense Boat (Victoria and Albert Museum website, July 2013)

  Fowler, Gordon – ‘The Extinct Waterways of The Fens’ (Geographical Journal, 83, no. 1, 30–39, 1934)

  Garcia, J. T. and Arroyo, B. E. – ‘Food-niche differentiation in sympatric Hen (Circus cyaneus) and Montagu’s Harriers (Circus pygargus)’ (Ibis, 147, no. 1, 144–154, 2005)

  Godwin, Harry – Fenland: Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future (Cambridge University Press, 1978)

  Image, Bob – ‘Montagu’s Harriers taking prey disturbed by farm machinery’ (British Birds, 85, no. 10, 559, 1992)

  Kingsley, Charles – Prose Idylls (Macmillan, 1873)

  Miller, Samuel H. and Skertchly, Sydney B. J. – The Fenland Past and Present (Longmans, Green & Co., 1878)

  Montagu, George – Ornithological Dictionary (J. White, 1802)

  — ‘Some interesting Additions to the Natural History of Falco cyaneus and pygargus, together with Remarks on some other British Birds’ (Ornithological Papers, Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. IX, 1808)

  Robinson, Eric and Fitter, Richard (eds) – John Clare’s Birds (Oxford University Press, 1982)

  Rosén, Mikael – Birds in the Flow: Flight Mechanics, Wake Dynamics and Flight Performance (Department of Ecology – Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden, 2003)

  Simmons, Robert E. – Harriers of the World: Their Behaviour and Ecology (Oxford University Press, 2000)

  Skertchly, Sydney – The Geology of the Fenland (HMSO, 1877)

  Stevenson, Henry – The Birds of Norfolk (John Van Voorst, 1866)

  Summers, Dorothy – The Great Level: A History of Drainage and Land Reclamation in the Fens (David & Charles, 1976)

  Weis, Henning – Life of the Harrier in Denmark (Wheldon & Wesley, 1923)

  Wells, W. – ‘The Drainage of Whittlesea Mere’ (Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 21, 134–153, 1860)

  IX Peregrine Falcon

  Baker, J. A. – The Peregrine (Collins, 1967)

  Bird, David M., Varland, Daniel E., Negro, Juan Jose (eds) – Raptors in Human Landscapes: Adaptations to Built and Cultivated Environments (Academic Press, 1996)

  Drewitt, Ed – Urban Peregrines (Pelagic, 2014)

  Frank, Saul – City Peregrines: A Ten-year Saga of New York City Falcons (Hancock House, 1984)

  Harkin, Trevor – Coventry 14th/15th November 1940 Casualties, Awards and Accounts (War Memorial Park Publications, 2010)

  Howard, R. T. – Ruined and Rebuilt: The Story of Coventry Cathedral 1939–1962 (The Council of Coventry Cathedral, 1962)

  Longmate, Norman – Air Raid: The Bombing of Coventry 1940 (Arrow Books, 1979)

  Macdonald, Helen – Falcon (Reaktion Books, 2006)

  The Provost of Coventry Cathedral – The Story of the Destruction of Coventry Cathedral November 14th, 1940 (Edwards, 1941)

  Ratcliffe, Derek – The Peregrine Falcon (Second Edition) (T. & A. D. Poyser, 1993)

  Ratcliffe, D. A. – ‘Changes Attributable to Pesticides in Egg Breakage Frequency and Eggshell Thickness in some British Birds’ (Journal of Applied Ecology, 7, no. 1, 67–115, 1970)

  Stirling-Aird, Patrick – Peregrine Falcon (Bloomsbury, 2015)

  Treleaven, R. B. – Peregrine: the private life of the Peregrine Falcon (Headland, 1977)

  — In Pursuit of the Peregrine (Tiercel Publishing, 1998)

  X Red Kite

  Carrell, Severin – ‘Scottish bird of prey colony hit by mass poisonings’ (Guardian, 3 April 2014)

  Carter, Ian – The Red Kite (Arlequin Press, 2001)

  Condry, William – The Natural History of Wales (Collins, 1981)

  Cross, Tony and Davis, Peter – The Red Kites of Wales (Subbuteo Natural History Books, 2005)

  Davis, Peter – ‘The Red Kite in
Wales: setting the record straight’ (British Birds, 86, no. 7, 295–298, 1993)

  Davis, P. E. and Davis, J. E. – ‘The food of the Red Kite in Wales’ (Bird Study, 28, no. 1, 33–40, 1981)

  — and Newton, I. – ‘Population and Breeding of Red Kites in Wales Over a 30-Year Period’ (Journal of Animal Ecology, 50, 759–772, 1981)

  Evans, A. H. (ed.) – Turner on Birds: A Short and Succinct History of the Principal Birds Noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, First Published by Doctor William Turner, 1544 (Cambridge University Press, 1903)

  Evans, John – The Red Kite in Wales (Christopher Davies, 1990)

  Forestry Commission Wales – Stories from the Forest: Newsletter of the Forests in the Rural Community Project (Forest Enterprise, 1st Edition – August 2002 and 2nd Edition – November 2002)

  Hansard – Afforestation, Towy Valley (Government Decision) (HC Deb 31 January 1952 vol. 495, cc50-1W)

  Jones, David J. V. – Before Rebecca: Popular Protests in Wales 1793–1835 (Allen Lane, 1973)

  — Rebecca’s Children: A Study of Rural Society, Crime, and Protest (Oxford University Press, 1989)

  Lovegrove, Roger – The Kite’s Tale: The Story of the Red Kite in Wales (RSPB, 1990)

  May, Celia A., Wetton, Jon H., Davis, Peter E., Brookfield, John F. Y. and Parkin, David T. – ‘Single-Locus Profiling Reveals Loss of Variation in Inbred Populations of the Red Kite (Milvus milvus)’ (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 251, no. 1332, 1993)

  —, Wetton, Jon H. and Parkin, David T. – ‘Polymorphic Sex-Specific Sequences in Birds of Prey’ (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 253, no. 1338, 1993)

  Owens, Nerys Elisa – ‘The Shifting Governance of State Forestry in Britain: A Critical Investigation of the Transition from Productivism to Post-Productivism’ (Thesis, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, 2009)

  Spence, Barbara – The Forestry Commission in Wales 1919–2013 (Forestry Commission Wales, 2013)

  Thomas, Adrian L. R. – ‘On the Tails of Birds’ (Dissertation, Department of Ecology, Lund University, 1995)

  Walpole-Bond, J. A. – Bird Life in Wild Wales (T. Fisher Unwin, 1903)

  Walters Davies, P. and Davis, P. E. – ‘The ecology and conservation of the Red Kite in Wales’ (British Birds, 66, no. 5, 183–224, no. 6, 241–270, 1973)