| Lancashire and North Merseyside is blessed
with a huge range of habitats and this is mirrored in its rich avifauna. The
Lancashire list currently stands at 354 species with 148 breeding in the area.
The following pages summarise the status of Lancashire's birds as of 2002.
BREEDING is based on Breeding Bird
Survey 1997-1999
Abundant: > 5000 pairs
Common: < 5001 pairs
Fairly common: < 1001 pairs
Uncommon: < 251 pairs
Scarce: breeding in < 38 tetrads or < 51 pairs
Rare: breeding in < 7 tetrads or < 11 pairs
Occasional: less than annual
Former: not in last ten years
PASSAGE/WINTER is based on records
for last 25 years (1974-1998)
Abundant: > 2000 annually
Common: < 2001 annually
Fairly common: < 201 annually
Uncommon: < 21 annually
Scarce: < 101 records
Rare: < 26 records
Vagrant: < 11 records
Records in brackets signify records pre-1974
The new 'Birds of Lancashire' is available from Subbuteo and details the status of Lancashire birds up to 2006 with even a few reords from 2007 thrown in for good measure.
The systematic list has been revised in accordance with the latest BOU list. The full systematic order can be found in an excel file by clicking here.
Species and Sub-species Requiring Full Descriptions
The following species require a description if they are to be admitted into the official list as they are significant rarities in the regional sense. Natioanl rarities should be sent to the BBRC panel but all should ideally be sent via the Recorder.
Black Brant
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Ferruginous Duck
Surf Scoter
Black Grouse
Red-necked Grebe
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Cory’s Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
Wilson’s Storm-petrel
Night Heron
Purple Heron
Great White Egret
Honey Buzzard
Black Kite
Montagu’s Harrier
White-tailed Eagle
Golden Eagle
Rough-legged Buzzard
Red-footed Falcon
Spotted Crake
Corncrake
Common Crane
Stone Curlew
Kentish Plover
American Golden Plover
Temminck’s Stint
White-rumped Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Long-tailed Skua
Sabine’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Gull
White-winged Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Little Auk
Puffin
Nightjar
Alpine Swift
Bee-eater
Hoopoe
Wryneck
Woodlark
Short-toed Lark
Shore Lark
Red-rumped Swallow
Richard’s Pipit
Tawny Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Grey-headed Wagtail
Nightingale
Bluethroat
Cetti’s Warbler
Aquatic Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Melodious Warbler
Barred Warbler
Subalpine Warbler
Dartford Warbler
Greenish Warbler
Pallas’s Warbler
Radde’s Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Golden Oriole
Red-backed Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
Chough
Rose-coloured Starling
Serin
Arctic Redpoll
Common Rosefinch
Lapland Bunting
Ortolan Bunting
Rustic Bunting
Little Bunting
Cirl Bunting
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