Scottish lighthouse keepers filled in bird-observation schedules in the early 20th century, and several hundred of the surviving records — including one completed at Pentland Skerries Lighthouse in 1911 — are now held by the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club
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Somewhere in a wooden box in Scotland sits a printed form from 1911. A lighthouse keeper filled it in by hand, noting the birds passing his lonely rock in the Pentland Firth. He was not a scientist. He almost certainly never saw a laboratory. Yet his careful notes are still being kept, more than a century later, by a national bird body. Why?
The short version: for decades, those who kept Scotland’s lighthouses were among the country’s best bird recorders. They were asked to be, on of
The short version: for decades, those who kept Scotland’s lighthouses were among the country’s best bird recorders. They were asked to be, on of
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