How did you discover it? In the 1990s I wrote an island-hopping guide to Orkney, so I visited all the islands I hadn’t already been to. Graemsay was the closest to my home, and maybe because of that I ...

“I looked it and broke it to him that this was Burray, in the Orkney Islands, not Barra in the Western Isles.” Even more disorientated were the American visitors whose first request on stepping on to ...

Conservation scientists monitoring the wildlife on Orkney have reported increased evidence of Orkney Voles and increased ...

A coordinated stoat cull on the Scottish islands is proving successful – and conservationists aren't slowing down ...

How to spend one day in Orkney, when you're taking the ferry from the Scottish mainland, and only have a few hours to spare ...

Signs of Orkney vole activity are up 200% on 2019, while threatened ground-nesting birds are doing better, an RSPB report ...

Orkney's wildlife, including several threatened bird species and the endemic Orkney Vole are showing signs of recovery with population numbers and nesting successes increasing since work began to ...

Marty has 100 scarecrows, has used gas guns and spent numerous hours trying to see off the geese, to no avail. He is ...

Orkney RSPB It’s not all bad news in the world of nature conservation. Orkney’s wildlife, which includes several threatened ...