The Birds of Islay and Jura Published February 2026


Monday, 13 July 2020

Sarah Bedford kindly sent me through her WeBS count for Ardnave Loch and also for Loch Gruinart


Species
Ardnave Loch
Loch Gruinart
Heron
1
8
Great-northern diver


Shelduck

3
Cormorant


Shag


Tufted duck


Wigeon


Mallard
1

Eider

19
Goldeneye


Red-breasted merganser


Oystercatcher
6
130
Ringed plover


Lapwing
6

Sanderling


Dunlin


Knot


Turnstone


Bar-tailed godwit

213
Curlew

75
Redshank

3
Common gull

99
Herring gull

46
Lesser black-backed gull


Great black-backed gull

9
Common Tern


Arctic Tern


Goosander


Greenshank


Mute swan
2
Whooper swan


Teal


Common sandpiper

20
Greylag


Black-headed gull
53

It might have helped if I had been able to condense Sarah's work down a bit, but things were not working for me tonight, so my fault again...

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