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Tain & District Field Club

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Tain & District Field Club
Location
  • Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland
Region served
Highland, Scotland
Websitetainfieldclub.org.uk

In 1980, a Biology teacher at Tain Royal Academy expanded his adult evening class in natural history into a formal group which was to meet and receive lectures about natural history in general and biological topics related to the Tain area. Thus was started an unbroken series of lecture seasons and field excursions organised by the Tain & District Field Club.

TDFC members met in Tain Royal Academy until recently when the refurbished hall at the Tain Parish Church became the regular venue for lectures.

The intent throughout has been to deliver erudite lectures from specialists in their field and make field excursions to sites with Natural History interest; the publicly stated aim is "To encourage interest in natural history in this area by surveying and recording animals and plants and helping projects organised by conservation organisations".

Tain & District Field Club is fortunate in its location, surrounded by rich farmland, both mixed and monoculture, firths, woodlands, rivers and lochs such as Loch Eye, an important area for wintering greylag geese and whooper swans. Other important local sites where TDFC takes an active interest have been nesting ospreys, capercaillie (Scottish Gaelic: an coileach-fraoich) strongholds, Scottish crossbill habitat, and extensive mudflats important for feeding wading birds.

TDFC Survey and Recording Activities

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With their specific interests and skills TDFC members have managed or contributed to activities such as bird-ringing, cetacean-watch, osprey-watch, amphibian & reptile census, biological surveying, habitat recording, and site monitoring, largely participating in survey work co-ordinated by the Highland Biological Recording Group.

Tain & District Field Club members :

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