About Wildlife around the lake area of Roos Loch

The area within a five mile radius of Roos Loch is home to 105 species of birds.

Roos Loch is a woodland area in Orkney Islands.

Roos Loch Map

Roos Loch Map

Birds found near Roos Loch

There have been 105 species of birds recorded within a five mile radius of Roos Loch.

(Anthus spinoletta/petrosus agg.)
Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Bar-Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Common Gull (Larus canus)
Common Swift (Apus apus)
Coot (Fulica atra)
Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra)
Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Dabchick (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
Feral Pigeon (Columba livia)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin)
Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)
House Martin (Delichon urbicum)
Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Knot (Calidris canutus)
Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca)
Long-Eared Owl (Asio otus)
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Merlin (Falco columbarius)
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba subsp. yarrellii)
Pink-Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
Razorbill (Alca torda)
Red-Breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
Redshank (Tringa totanus)
Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis)
Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba subsp. alba)
Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Bar-Headed Goose (Anser indicus)
Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
Black-Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)
Common Guillemot (Uria aalge)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Corncrake (Crex crex)
Curlew (Numenius arquata)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Eider (Somateria mollissima)
Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Gannet (Morus bassanus)
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer)
Green Plover (Vanellus vanellus)
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Hornemann's Redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni subsp. hornemanni)
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Lesser Black-Backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
Linnet (Linaria cannabina)
Long-Tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)
Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)
Pied/White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
Pochard (Aythya ferina)
Raven (Corvus corax)
Red-Backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)
Redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Scaup (Aythya marila)
Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
Short-Eared Owl (Asio flammeus)
Skylark (Alauda arvensis)
Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)
Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
Twite (Linaria flavirostris)
Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus)