Selected publications

McInerny, C.J. & McGowan, R.Y. 2025. Historical records of Ortolan Bunting in Scotland: a review. Scottish Birds45: 216-230.

McInerny, C.J., McGowan, R.Y. & Wilkinson, M.A. 2025. Scottish Birds Records Committee report on rare birds in Scotland, 2023. Scottish Birds45: 99-121.

McInerny, C.J. & McGowan, R.Y. 2024. Historical records of Woodlark Lullula arborea in Scotland: a review, a confirmed breeding occurrence, and a specimen with features of the southern subspecies L.a. pallida.Scottish Birds 44: 202-213.

McInerny, C.J. McGowan, R.Y., Sellers, R.M., Cafiso, M and J.M. Collinson. 2024. A review of early historical records of Collared Pratincoles in Britain, and new British first records of Collared, Black-winged and Oriental Pratincoles. British Birds 117: 152-167.

McGowan, R.Y. 2024. The North Sea Bird Club and National Museums Scotland. In: Thorpe, A. 2024. The North Sea Bird Club 1979-2019, pp 112-114.

McInerny, C.J., McGowan, R.Y., Clark, J.M., Moody, M.P., Senfeld, T., Collinson, J.M. & Harrop, A.H.J. 2023. An apparent nineteenth-century record of Scopoli’s Shearwater in Hampshire. British Birds116: 222-227.

Marini, M.A., Hall, L., Bates, J., Steinheimer, F.D., McGowan, R., Silveira, L.F., Lijtmaer, D.A., Tubaro, P.L., Córdoba-Córdoba, S., Gamauf, A., Greeney, H.F., Schweizer, M., Kamminga, P., Cibois, A., Vallotton, L., Russell, D., Robinson, S.K., Sweet, P.R., Frahnert, S. & Hemming, N.M. 2020. The five million bird eggs in the world’s museum collections are an invaluable and underused resource. Auk137: 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukaa036

Jones, C.G., Jackson, H.A., McGowan, R.Y., Hume, J.P, Forshaw, J.M., Tatayah, V., Winters, R. & Groombridge, J.J. 2018. A parakeet specimen held at National Museums Scotland is a unique skin of the extinct Reunion Parakeet Psittacula eques eques: a reply to Cheke and Jansen (2016). Ibis: https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12673

McGowan, R.Y., Dougall, T.W, & Collinson, J.M. 2018. The first Scottish record of ‘Continental Cormorant’. Scottish Birds 38: 136–138.

McGowan, R.Y. on behalf of BOURC. 2015. The BOURC review of the 1869 specimen of American Goshawk from Perthshire. Scottish Birds 35: 300–310.