Wading birds and wildfowl of the estuary and Firth of Forth, Scotland

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biological Sciences
• Main Author: Bryant, D. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1987
• Subjects: General Medicine; Midwinter; Calidris alpina; Calidris canutus; Dunlin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269727000006916; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0269727000006916

Synopsis The estuary and Firth of Forth support an outstanding number and variety of wildfowl and waders at migration seasons and in midwinter. Although populations of wildfowl and waders fell from 25–35,000 and 50–65,000 respectively in the 1970s, to 10–15,000 and 30–40,000 by the mid-1980s, the Fo...