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Part 1
Birds protected by special penalties at all times.Avocet* Bee-eater* Bittern* Bittern, little* Bluethroat* Brambling Bunting, cirl* Bunting, Lapland* Bunting, snow* Buzzard, honey* Capercaillie (in Scotland - see note below) Chough* Corncrake* Crake, spotted* Crossbill (all species)* Curlew, stone* Diver (all species)* Dotterel Duck, long-tailed* Eagle, golden* Eagle, white-tailed* Falcon, gyr* Fieldfare* Firecrest* Garganey Godwit, black-tailed* Goshawk* |
Grebe, black-necked* Grebe, Slavonian* Greenshank* Gull, little Gull, Mediterranean Harriers (all species)* Heron, purple Hobby* Hoopoe* Kingfisher* Kite, red* Merlin* Oriole, golden* Osprey* Owl, barn Owl, snowy Peregrine* Petrel, Leach's* Phalarope, red-necked* Plover, Kentish* Plover, little ringed* Quail, common* Redstart, black* Redwing* Rosefinch, scarlet* Ruff* Sandpiper, green* |
Sandpiper, purple* Sandpiper, wood* Scaup Scoter, common* Scoter, velvet* Serin* Shorelark* Shrike, red-backed* Spoonbill* Stilt, black-winged* Stint, Temminck's* Swan, Bewick's Swan, whooper Tern, black* Tern, little* Tern, roseate* Tit, bearded* Tit, crested* Treecreeper, short-toed* Warbler, Cetti's* Warbler, Dartford* Warbler, marsh* Warbler, Savi's* Whimbrel* Woodlark* Wryneck* |
Note on capercaillie
In 2001 an Amendment (Scotland) to the Wildlife and Countryside
Act 1981 (Scottish Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 337) moved capercaillie to
Schedule 1 of the Act in Scotland and removed the species from Schedule 2.
Capercaillie is only found in Scotland.
Schedule 1 Part II
Birds protected by special penalties during the close season which is 1 February to 31 August (21 February to 31August below high water mark) but which may be killed or taken outside this period.Naturenet gratefully acknowledges the help of Carole Brind AIEEM in researching the protection on capercaillie.