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Stoats are small, carnivorous mammals that were first recorded in Orkney in 2010. A 2017-2019 survey of wading birds in Orkney revealed that the number of curlews in the isles had declined by more ...

Curlew numbers are on the rise after an initiative to remove stoats from Orkney (Ian Francis/PA) The Orcadian curlew population is on the rise following an effort to reduce the numbers of an ...

In 2022, the couple joined director Nora Fingscheidt and co-writer Amy Liptrott in Orkney to begin filming ... "So every time we would go out on a boat, or film the seals and I would sing to ...

The ancient folktales and legends woven deeply into the very fabric of Orkney find a central role in major new Scottish film The Outrun. It is an autobiographical tale of islander Amy Liptrot ...

German filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt had never visited the remote Scottish islands of Orkney before directing Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir The Outrun. Liptrot’s book tells the author’s story of a ...

A pensioner who died while exploring a wrecked warship in Orkney was "almost certainly" killed by being struck by a boat propellor. Paul Smith, from the Greater Manchester area, was out exploring ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these ...

The 12m vessel is expected to arrive in March next year, while the larger boat is due to be delivered in 2025. The fully-electric vessels will remain in the ownership of Orkney Ferries after the ...