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SCOTLAND is well placed for intercepting certain movements of birds on migration. The records made by Dr. Eagle Clarke and after him by the late Admiral J. H. Stenhouse at Fair Isle, ably supplemented by the skill and knowledge of the islanders themselves, have made that remote spot between the Shetland and Orkney Islands a name known to all students of bird migration. But Fair Isle is remote and difficult of access, and it must be admitted that it receives the full tide of migration only under peculiar conditions of weather. On the other hand, the Isle of May, situated off the entrance of the Firth of Forth, is not far from centres of population, is easily reached in most kinds of weather, and has been proved, by many annual visits of Miss Baxter and Miss Rintoul, to be a good post of observation. Accordingly a few enthusiastic ornithologists, the Midlothian Ornithological Club, have decided to make the Isle of May a bird station at which regular, and so far as possible continuous, observations of bird movements will be made, partly by field study, partly by trapping and ringing adult birds. The carrying out of the project has been made possible by the permission of the Commissioners of Northern Lights, and every naturalist will wish success to this promising enterprise.
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A Scottish Bird Station. Nature 134, 1000 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/1341000c0
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