Species List 2018

Isle of Carna Species List

The following species are confirmed on or around the island (as at January 2018):

Birds White-tailed (Sea) Eagle Golden Eagle Woodpecker Oystercatcher Common Buzzard Cuckoo Heron Hen Harrier Wren Redshank Sparrowhawk Grasshopper Warbler Black Throated Diver Kestrel (Common) Robin Great Northern Diver Merlin Willow Warbler Arctic tern Tawny Owl Common Sandpiper Red breasted Merganser Long Eared Owl Meadow Pipit Greylag Goose Barn Owl Wheatear Teal Woodcock Lesser Redpoll Common Shag Wood Pigeon Chaffinch Pink Footed Goose Raven Blue Tit Angry Grey Heron Ringed Plover Swallow Curlew Mistle Thrush Rock Pipit Whimbrel House Martin Dunnock Gannet Common Gull Tree Pipit Common Whitethroat Herring Gull Whinchat Mallard Great Black Backed Gull Pied Wagtail Common Blackbird Black Guillemot Black Headed Gull Cormorant White Throated Dipper Dunlin European Goldfinch Goosander Great-crested Grebe Hooded Crow Jay Little Grebe Long-tailed Tit Redwing Common Reed Bunting Ruddy Turnstone Song Thrush Stonechat Black-tailed Godwit Canada Goose Common Tern Red-throated Diver Sedge Warbler Siskin Carna Conservation Initiative C.I.C. Bruach na Fearna, Laga bay, Acharacle, Argyll, PH36 4JW. 01972 500 208 www.carnaconservation.org Registered in Scotland as a Community Interest Company – number 474860

Skylark Snipe

Mammals Eurasian Otter Red Deer Soprano Pipistrelle Bat Pine Marten Roe Deer Field Vole Water Shrew Red Fox Wood Mouse Common Pipistrelle Bat Bank Vole

Marine Harbour/Common Seal Dolphin Porpoise Spiny Dogfish (Spurdog) Flame Shells Northern Feather Star Serpulid Worm Reefs European Spiny Lobster Horse Mussel Beds Common Skate Tall Sea Pen Firework Anemone Northern Sea Fan White Cluster Anemone Ocean Quahog Maerl Beds Common Sea Urchin Squat Lobster Sea Squirts Langoustine Crayfish Common Blenny Butterfish Parasitic Barnacle Beadlet Anenome Common Periwinkle Green Sea Urchin Common Starfish Common Whelk Lugworm Plumose Anenome Shore Crab Yellow Periwinkle Bladder Wrack Flat-wrack Knotted-wrack Saw-wrack Common Hermit Crab Small Winkle Sea-mat For full underwater list see dive report 2017

Flora & Lichen Bluebell Thrift Oak Heath Spotted Orchid Ling Heather Aspen Heath Fragrant Orchid Cross Leaved Heath Rowan Birds Foot Trefoil Wood Anemone Alder Primrose Cuckoo Flower Birch (Silver & Downy) Marsh Marigold Bell Heather Holly Lesser Celandine Bog Myrtle Ash Wood Sorrel Honeysuckle Hazel Common Dog Violet Sundew Willow Flag Iris Butterwort Hard fern Carna Conservation Initiative C.I.C. Bruach na Fearna, Laga bay, Acharacle, Argyll, PH36 4JW. 01972 500 208 www.carnaconservation.org Registered in Scotland as a Community Interest Company – number 474860

Lesser Stitchwort Foxglove Common Stinging Nettle Meadow Vetchling Daffodil Hare’s Tail Cottongrass Buttercups Common Daisy Scurvy Grass Common Mouse Ear Dandelion Bramble Bugle Pignut Bracken Bog asphodel Alexanders Rhododendron Ponticum Devils-bit Scabious Common Milkwort Ground Elder Ragged robin Selfheal Purple Moor Grass Slender St. John’s wort Hemlock Water- Bilberry Dropwort Crowberry Dog Rose Grass-of-Parnassus Greater Knapweed Hawthorn Greater Knapweed Herb Robert Meadowsweet Red Clover Wood Sage Dog Lichen

Moths Barred Red Campion Foxglove Pug Chimney Sweeper Garden Carpet Beautiful Brocade Clouded Buff Gold Swift Beautiful Golden Y Clouded-bordered Green Arches Birch Mocha Brindle Green Carpet Bordered White Common Marbled Grey Arches Bright-line Brown-eye Carpet Grey dagger Brimstone Common Wave Grey Pine Carpet Broken-barred Carpet Common White Wave Grey Scalloped Bar Broom Common/lesser Ingrailed Clay Brown Rustic common Rustic Iron Prominent Brown Silver-line Dark Brocade Knot Grass Buff Ermine Drinker Light Emerald Buff-tip Dusky Brocade Light Knot-grass Northern Eggar Elephant Hawkmoth Map-winged Swift Pale-shouldered brocade Emperor Middle-barred Minor Peach Blossom Flame Carpet Mottled Beauty Peacock Flame Shoulder Narrow-winged Pug Pebble Hook-tip Four-dotted Footman Agriphila Pebble Prominent Small Clouded Brindle straminella Peppered Small Dotted Buff Argyresthia Carna Conservation Initiative C.I.C. Bruach na Fearna, Laga bay, Acharacle, Argyll, PH36 4JW. 01972 500 208 www.carnaconservation.org Registered in Scotland as a Community Interest Company – number 474860

Poplar Hawkmoth Small Phoenix brockkeela Poplar Kitten Small Square-spot Argyresthia Purple Clay Smoky Wainscot goedartella Red Twin-spot Carpet Spectacle Caloptilia Rustic Shoulder-knot Spruce carpet alchimiella Satin Lutestring True Lover's Knot Celypha lacunana Saxon Welsh Wave Chrysoteuchia Scalloped Hazel Silver-ground Carpet culmella Shears Six Spot Burnet Crambus ericella Silver Hook Small Angle Shades Crambus Small Argent and Sable lathoniellus Fox Moth Silver Y Hellinsia tephradactyla

Mompha raschkiella Notocelia uddmanniana Opostega salaciella Pandemis cerasana

Butterflies Scotch Argus Speckled Wood Common Blue Orange Tip Small Heath Grayling Red Admiral Meadow Brown Dark green fritillary Peacock Green Veined White

Other Invertebrates Common Oil Beetle Common Carder Bee Chaser Dragonfly Dor Beetle White-tailed Bumble Bee Crane Fly Devil’s Coachhorse Black Slug Field Slug Dark Honey Bee

Carna Conservation Initiative C.I.C. Bruach na Fearna, Laga bay, Acharacle, Argyll, PH36 4JW. 01972 500 208 www.carnaconservation.org Registered in Scotland as a Community Interest Company – number 474860

Reptiles/Amphibians Common lizard Slow worm Common Frog Common Toad

There are many other species on and around Carna that we have not yet formally identified or not included. We aim to update this list as regularly as possible but can you help us add to it? If you are a previous visitor with sightings then do tell us or come and stay and help us identify more. Perhaps you can help us find the elusive Chequered Skipper on the island? Or help survey the waters around the island if you are a diver?

For more information on how to visit Carna see carnaconservation.org