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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A seabird ringed on the Shiant Isles in the Western Isles set a new European birding longevity record before it died, ornithologists have said. The shag, which was 31, was fitted with a ring on 30 ...

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 ...

The experts believe they could find puffins even older than 34 in the future. Ornithologists say they have found the oldest known puffin in Europe on an island off the west coast of Scotland. The ...

I never thought I would find myself writing warmly about a book by a Scottish laird. Adam Nicolson owns the Shiant Islands, east of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The Shiants are a compact cluster and, ...

For his 21st birthday, Nicolson's father gave him some islands among the Scottish Outer Hebrides, 600 acres worth of land that the elder Nicolson had purchased on a whim in 1937. At various times, the ...

A woman who is believed to have been trying to live alone on a remote island had her isolation bid cut short after injuring herself in a fall. Emergency crews were called to the Shiant Isles, about ...