| Summary of Seabird Counts on the Islands in the Firth of Forth | ||||||||||||||
| 1974 | 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) | 90 | 2 | c60 | 405 | 8 | 38 | ||||||||
| Cormorant (nests) | 22 | 206 | ||||||||||||
| Shag (nests) | 225 | 255 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 933 | ||||||||
| Gannet (nests) | 10,500 | |||||||||||||
| Eider (nests) | x | 1 | 188 | x | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Great B-b Gull (nests) | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Lesser B-b Gull (nests) | 300-350 | c 5 | 30 | x | c10 | 795 | ||||||||
| Herring Gull (nests) | x | c500 | c 350 | x | 40-50 | 250-300 | 6 | 106 | 6,955 | |||||
| Kittiwake (nests) | c 450 | 141 | 272 | 421 | 2,840 | |||||||||
| Common Tern (nests) | 750 | 20+ | ||||||||||||
| Arctic Tern (nests) | ||||||||||||||
| Roseate Tern (nests) | 80 | |||||||||||||
| Sandwich Tern (nests) | 450 | |||||||||||||
| Razorbill (pairs/sites) | 46 | 11 | 1 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Guillemot (birds on cliffs) | c 1000 | c 400 | 10-20 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Puffin (birds unless otherwise stated) | 1,170 | 1 AOB | 490 | 3,870 | ||||||||||
| 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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