| Summary of Seabird Counts on the Islands in the Firth of Forth | ||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Bass Rock | Craigleith | Lamb | Fidra | Eyebr-oughty | Inchkeith | Carr Craig | Inchcolm | Haystack | Inch-mickery + Cow & Calves | Inch Garvie / Forth Bridge | Long Craig | May Isle | Total |
| Fulmar (AOS) | 45 | 2 | 66-70 | 400 | 10 | 48 | ||||||||
| Cormorant (nests) | 225 | |||||||||||||
| Shag (nests) | 180 | 214 | 233 | 25 | 3 | 13 | 644 | |||||||
| Gannet (nests) | x | |||||||||||||
| Eider (nests) | 10+ | x | 30+ | 100+ | 8 | |||||||||
| Great B-b Gull (nests) | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Lesser B-b Gull (nests) | x | c10 | 646 mixed | 375 | c15 | x | 5+ | 651 | ||||||
| Herring Gull (nests) | 5,000 | c375 | 646 mixed | 4,000 | 125 | c500 | 80 | x | c100 | 4,485 | ||||
| Kittiwake (nests) | c450 | 93 | 262 | 404 | 3,520 | |||||||||
| Common Tern (nests) | c4 | 750 | 30 | |||||||||||
| Arctic Tern (nests) | ||||||||||||||
| Roseate Tern (nests) | 61 | |||||||||||||
| Sandwich Tern (nests) | 660 | |||||||||||||
| Razorbill (pairs/sites) | 49 | 12 | 4 s/ 6 b | c 14 | ||||||||||
| Guillemot (birds on cliffs) | 1,100 | 500 | 20 s | 2 off-shore | ||||||||||
| Puffin (birds unless otherwise stated) | 1,100 | 10 AOB, 12 b | c610 | 3,000 | ||||||||||
| AOB/AOS/AOT=Apparently occupied burrows/sites/territories; x=breeding; 0=none breeding; c=circa; mixed=two species (eg Herring and LBB Gulls) counted together; b=birds; s=sites | ||||||||||||||
| Click on the tabs below to select a year | Revised figure from CEH,June 2019 | |||||||||||||
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