he cliffs around Sumburgh Head attract thousands of breeding seabirds, including puffins, guillemots, shags and fulmars. Gannets are regularly seen off-shore and sometimes whales and dolphins.

This marshland reserve is one of the best remaining marshes in the Orkney islands. In the summer, pintails and wading birds breed, while in the winter, the flooded marsh attracts hundreds of ducks and smaller numbers of ...

Acquired in 1996, this reserve offers a wonderful array of breeding birds. Our management of the reserve creates ideal conditions for corncrakes when they arrive from Africa in the spring.

The large shallow loch attracts large numbers of wildfowl during the autumn and winter, including whooper swans, wigeons and teals. In the summer, arctic terns, arctic and great skuas and kittiwakes can be seen bathing i ...

These isolated cliffs have one of the UK's largest seabird colonies. More than 44,500 guillemots and 12,700 pairs of kittiwakes breed, along with razorbills and fulmars.

In the summer, hen harriers, short-eared owls and Arctic skuas nest on the moorland. The Orkney vole is also common on the reserve.

Red-throated divers, merlins and hen harriers all breed on the heather moorland of this reserve.

Orkney is one of Britain's prime places for birdwatching. The combination of fertile agricultural land, moorland, wetland, coastline and surrounding sea provide an almost uniquely varied environment which is very attract ...

Cottascarth and Rendall are wonderful places to see hen harriers, merlins and short-eared owls. Rendall Moss has one of the highest densities of breeding curlews in Europe.

During the summer, a wealth of birds breed on the reserve, including 90% of the British population of red-necked phalaropes. These fascinating wading birds can be seen from the RSPB hide or at the Loch of Funzie. Red-thr ...