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Environment

Introduction
Geology
Coasts and
Machair Land
Peatland
and Moorland
Upland Areas
Flora and fauna
Wildlife
Environmental
Conservation
Other References
SNH
RSPB
Visit Hebrides

Further References

View of Taransay and West Loch Tarbert

R Pankhurst, The Flora of the Outer Hebrides, British Museum, 1991

Cunningham, P, The Birds of the Outer Hebrides, Mercat Press. Edinburgh, 1991

M P Harris & S Murray, The Birds of St Kilda, ITE 1978.

S Small (Ed.), A St Kilda Handbook, Dundee University, 1979

Benn, S, Murray, S & Tasker, M L, Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir, NCC, 1989

Waterston, A R, Non-marine Invertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1981

British Regional Geology: The Northern Highlands, Institute of Geological Sciences. HMSO, 1968

Outer Hebrides - Localities of Geological and Geomorphological Importance, Geology and Physiography Section, Nature Conservancy Council, 1977

Craig G Y (Ed.), Geology of Scotland (Second Edition), Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1983

The Islands of Western Scotland, W H Murray Eyre Methuen, 1973

Price, Robert J, Highland Landforms, Highlands and Islands Development Board, 1976

Whitton, J B, Geology and Scenery in Scotland, Penguin Books Ltd, 1977

Various papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which volume 77b, 1979 is entirely devoted to the natural environment of the Western Isles.

Boyd, J M, & Boyd, I L,The Hebrides, Collins, 1990. ISBN 0-00-2198-85/1

Cunningham, Peter, Birds of the Outer Hebrides, Melven Press, 1983. ISBN 0-90664-00-0.

Stroud, DA et al., A survey of moorland birds on the Isle of Lewis in 1987, Nature Conservancy Council, 1987

Various papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which volume 77b, 1979 is entirely devoted to the natural environment of the Western Isles.

Green, G H (Ed). A survey of waders breeding on the west coast of the Uists and Benbecula (Outer Hebrides) 1983, Published by Wader Studies Group and Nature Conservancy Council, 1984.

 

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