Assynt Wildlife Mapping Project
This Project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish Natural Heritage
Assynt Bird Distribution Maps
Sadly we are not in a position to produce maps for all of the bird species that have been recorded in Assynt (236 at 3-12-2020). The species that have been mapped were selected for a variety of reasons from range expansion, e.g. Goldfinch to range contraction, e.g Yellowhammer.
The Assynt Wildlife Mapping Project (2020), which commenced on 9th July 2020, formed part of the successful bid by the Field Club to the Coigach and Assynt Living Landscape Partnership and was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish Natural Heritage. The project end date is 31st December 2020.
The full bid included proposals to: upgrade our existing website, which was launched in 2009; make more raw data regarding Assynt’s wildlife available in one location; encourage more contributions of records, then this final part is to produce maps showing the distribution of many of our species.
These Assynt Bird Distribution Maps will not only help illustrate where certain species occur, but just as importantly where they seem to be missing.
Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus