57°36′33″N 7°30′11″W / 57.609164°N 7.502957°W The Balranald Nature Reserve is an RSPB reserve on the north west coast of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
The reserve is open all year round and has a small unmanned visitor centre [1]
Balranald has a number of birds that can be viewed there regularly such as lapwings, corn buntings, greylag geese and the famous corncrake which has a distinctive rasping sound in the summer months. North Uist has also had some other rarer visitors such as the Snowy Owl,[2] Black Billed Cuckoo,[3] Gyrfalcon and the Hoopoe.[4]
References
edit- ^ "About Balranald". The RSPB. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ "Hope of first owl chicks in years". BBC. 13 May 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ "Birders flock to spot 'mega rarity' in North Uist - Island News & Advertiser". Island News & Advertiser. 23 May 2016. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ "World's largest falcon spotted on North Uist". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 20 June 2016.