A group of small islands in the Minch have been declared free of rats for the first time in more than a century. The black rats were not native to the Shiants off Lewis and were thought to be the ...

1. Introduced predators are a major threat to native island populations, yet direct evidence of predation is often lacking, especially when it is difficult to detect by traditional dietary methods. 2.

ATTEMPTS are to be made to eradicate a population of black rats on a group of Scottish islands as part of a £900,000 project to safeguard threatened seabird colonies. The exact impact of the ...

The existing 150-year-old bothy on Eilean an Taighe, an island in the Shiants Two bothies have been proposed as visitor accommodation on the Shiants, a small group of uninhabited islands off Lewis.

Shags are a red status conservation species according to the RSPB A seabird ringed on the Shiant Isles in the Western Isles set a new European birding longevity record before it died, ornithologists ...

RAT-catchers used peanut butter and chocolate treats to lure thousands of rodents to their deaths in a £1 million project to eradicate vermin from a tiny Outer Hebridean island group. Exterminators ...

Don’t dismiss seabirds as noisy gulls who’ll pinch your chips on the promenade. We also have the puffin, razorbill, guillemot, fulmar and kittiwake, all of whom make their summer home on Scotland’s ...