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Large flocks of pink-footed goose and greylag goose use the basin to roost in and feed in the surrounding farmland. As well as wintering eiders the basin supports a large breeding population. [2] In all 213 species of bird have been recorded on the basin, most being winter visitors or passage migrants and just over 50 species are thought to ...
Tens of thousands of pink-footed geese use the Montrose Basin as a winter roost in October and November as they do Loch Strathbeg and various lochs and reservoirs in Tayside and the Lothians. [112] The amber-listed black and red-throated diver's freshwater breeding strongholds in the British Isles are in the north and west of Scotland. [113]
The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark. The name is often abbreviated in colloquial usage to "pinkfoot" (plural "pinkfeet").
In October and November there are 38,000 birds using the basin. [36] In winter, 20,000 pink-footed geese take up residence on the mudflats, feeding in the nearby fields by day, and returning to the safety of the Basin in the evening. The haunting fluting of their calls is beloved of local people, for whom the sound marks the turning of the seasons.
In winter, pink-footed geese, greylag geese, wigeons and whooper swans can be seen on the loch, and in summer, large numbers of swallows, sand martins and swifts can be seen over the water. Tufted ducks , goldeneye and great crested grebe can be seen year-round, and both goldeneye and great crested grebe can be seen performing their courtship ...
A. a. sponsa Banks 2011 (Pacific white-fronted goose) Anser fabalis (Latham 1787) (Taiga bean goose) LC. A. f. fabalis (Latham 1787) (western taiga bean Goose) A. f. johanseni Delacour 1951 (West Siberian taiga bean goose) Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon 1834 (pink-footed goose) LC; Anser middendorffii Severtsov 1873 (East Siberian taiga bean goose)
Barker was aware that both pink footed geese and Bewick's swans roosted at Martin Mere and was able to arrange a meeting between Sir Peter and the then landowner, this resulted in Sir Peter buying 363 acres (147 ha) for £52,000. [16] The first warden of the reserve was Peter Gladstone (1928–2000). [17]
Nigg Bay is an extensive area of mudflats, saltmarsh and wet grassland on the Cromarty Firth. Visitors between October and March are sure to see countless wading birds and wildfowl, such as bar-tailed godwits, knots, pink-footed geese and wigeon, feeding and roosting on the mudflats, moving with the tide in and out of the bay.