Birdwatching in Orkney

The RSPB, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, is the largest single landowner in Orkney; the importance of the archipelago from an ornithological point of view cannot be over- ...

Fair Isle Bird Observatory

Stay at the world famous Bird Observatory, with its warm comfortable accommodation, friendly welcome, good home cooking and family atmosphere.  Enjoy the spectacular cliff and c ...

BOC North Ronaldsay

Shetland Bird Club was founded in 1973 to promote, study, conserve and record the bird life of Shetland. Since then the club has published an annual report every year (the Shetland Bird Rep ...

The reserve is in the north-west corner of the Mainland. Thousands of pairs of seabirds crowd onto the cliffs. The cliff top has spectacular displays of sea campion, thrift and spring squill.

The reserve is a mixture of moorland, sandflats, saltmarsh and sea cliffs. Hen harriers, short-eared owls and red-throated divers breed on the moorland. On the coast, look out for red-breasted mergansers and black guille ...

In winter, whooper swans can often be seen on the reserve, along with greylag geese. In the summer, pintails breed on the marsh with other ducks including wigeons and shovelers.

The reserve is a mixture of moorland and cliffs and includes the famous Old Man of Hoy rock stack. Great skuas breed on the moor, along with red grouse, dunlins and golden plovers. Seabirds, including guillemots, razorbi ...

Mousa is most famous for its 2,000 year old Iron Age broch (tower), the best-preserved broch in the world, where many of the island's 6,000 pairs of storm petrels nest. Mousa also has 400 breeding harbour (common) seals ...

This uninhabited island was bought as a memorial to the naturalist James Fisher. The cliffs of the reserve are home to a huge colony of breeding seabirds, including fulmars, puffins, guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes ...

Visit our new reserve next to the Neolithic monument of the Ring of Brodgar in the heart of Orkney. Hear the bubbling curlews and drumming snipe in the summer, along with lapwings, dunlins, redshanks and oystercatchers. ...