The Breeding Birds of Orkney

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Author: Lack, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1943
• Subjects: Arctic; Fulmar; Arctic skua
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1943.tb03992.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.1943.tb03992.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1943.tb03992.x

Summary A brief description is given of the islands, the main habitats and their characteristic birds. Twenty per cent of the Caithness avifauna is not established in Orkney, and 32 per cent, of the Orkney breeding birds are not established in Shetland. The same species fall away much more gradually...