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Recording and Publishing Data on our Wildlife

  

 

Pigeons, Owls, Swifts, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Larks, Swallows, Pipts & Thrushes
 

FERAL PIGEON Columba livia
Abundant and widely-distributed breeding resident

STOCK DOVE Columba oenas
Fairly common breeding resident; local flocks in winter

WOODPIGEON Columba palumbus
Abundant breeding resident; widespread winter flocks

COLLARED DOVE Streptopelia decaocto
Common breeding resident, more local in the east; some coastal passage 

TURTLE DOVE Streptopelia turtur
Rare breeding visitor to the south-west; scarce passage migrant elsewhere

RING-NECKED PARAKEET
Feral birds seen occasionally.

CUCKOO Cuculus canorus
Uncommon breeding bird and double passage migrant, more numerous in spring

BARN OWL Tyto alba
Uncommon breeding resident; most numerous in the south-west and the Fylde

LITTLE OWL Athene noctua
Fairly common and widespread breeding resident

TAWNY OWL Strix aluco
Common and widespread breeding resident

LONG-EARED OWL Asio otus
Scarce and local breeding bird; uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor

SHORT-EARED OWL Asio flammeus
Scarce upland breeding bird; uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor

TENGMALM'S OWL
Vagrant

NIGHTJAR
Former breeding bird but now less than annual very rare migrant.

SWIFT Apus apus
Common summer visitor and abundant passage migrant

ALPINE SWIFT
Vagrant

LITTLE SWIFT
Vagrant

KINGFISHER Alcedo atthis
Uncommon but widely-distributed breeding bird, mainly in the east; post-breeding dispersal westwards

EUROPEAN BEE-EATER
Vagrant

ROLLER
Vagrant

HOOPOE* Upupa epops
Rare passage migrant

GREEN WOODPECKER Picus viridis
Uncommon and local breeding resident, mostly in the north and east

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER Dendrocopos major
Common and widespread breeding resident; some autumn dispersal/passage

LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER Dendrocopos minor
Scarce and local breeding resident

WOODLARK
Vagrant

SKYLARK Alauda arvensis
Abundant breeding bird and winter visitor; common passage migrant

SHORE LARK* Eremophila alpestris
Scarce and irregular winter visitor and passage migrant

SAND MARTIN Riparia riparia
Common but local breeding bird, mainly in the east; abundant double passage migrant

SWALLOW Hirundo rustica
Abundant breeding bird and double passage migrant

RED-RUMPED SWALLOW
Vagrant

HOUSE MARTIN Delichon urbica
Common and widespread breeding bird; abundant passage migrant

RICHARD’S PIPIT* Anthus novaeseelandiae
Rare passage migrant, mostly in autumn

TAWNY PIPIT
Vagrant

TREE PIPIT Anthus trivialis
Uncommon and local breeding bird in the north and east; fairly common double passage migrant

MEADOW PIPIT Anthus pratensis
Abundant breeding bird, especially in the east, and double passage migrant; scarcer in winter

RED-THROATED PIPIT
Vagrant

WATER PIPIT Anthus spinoletta
Uncommon winter visitor and scarce passage migrant

ROCK PIPIT Anthus petrosus
Uncommon winter visitor and passage migrant, mainly in autumn

YELLOW WAGTAIL Motacilla flava flavissima
Uncommon and declining summer visitor; fairly common passage migrant

BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL Motacilla flava flava
Scarce passage migrant, mostly in spring

CITRINE WAGTAIL
Vagrant

GREY WAGTAIL Motacilla cinerea
Fairly common breeding bird, mainly on upland streams in the east; common passage migrant, especially in autumn. Widespread in small numbers in winter

PIED WAGTAIL Motacilla alba yarrellii
Common and widespread breeding bird and winter visitor; abundant double passage migrant

WHITE WAGTAIL Motacilla alba alba
Spring passage migrant in variable numbers, mainly coastal; much scarcer in autumn

WAXWING Bombycilla garrulus
Uncommon, irruptive winter visitor

DIPPER Cinclus cinclus
Uncommon breeding resident, mainly in the east

WREN Troglodytes troglodytes
Abundant breeding resident, passage migrant and winter visitor

DUNNOCK Prunella modularis
Abundant breeding resident and uncommon double passage migrant

ROBIN Erithacus rubecula
Abundant breeding resident, autumn passage migrant and winter visitor

BLUETHROAT* Luscinia svecica
Vagrant

THRUSH NIGHTINGALE
Vagrant

NIGHTINGALE
Vagrant

BLACK REDSTART Phoenicurus ochruros
Rare breeding bird, uncommon double passage migrant and winter visitor

REDSTART Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Fairly common breeding bird and double passage migrant

WHINCHAT Saxicola rubetra
Uncommon breeding bird on eastern hills; common double passage migrant

SIBERIAN STONECHAT
Vagrant

STONECHAT Saxicola torquata
Uncommon and local breeding bird; uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor

WHEATEAR Oenanthe oenanthe
Fairly common though local breeding bird; common double passage migrant

PIED WHEATEAR
Vagrant

BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR
Vagrant

DESERT WHEATEAR
Vagrant

RING OUZEL Turdus torquatus
Scarce and local breeding bird in the hills; uncommon double passage migrant

BLACKBIRD Turdus merula
Abundant breeding resident and winter visitor; common double passage migrant, more evident in autumn

FIELDFARE Turdus pilaris
Common to abundant winter visitor and passage migrant

SONG THRUSH Turdus philomelos
Abundant breeding resident, common winter visitor and passage migrant

REDWING Turdus iliacus
Abundant double passage migrant and winter visitor

MISTLE THRUSH Turdus viscivorus
Common breeding resident; some autumn passage/dispersal

 
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