Recording and Publishing Data on our Wildlife

  

 
Lancashire Birds
  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.

Swans to Gamebirds

Divers to Herons

Raptors to Rails

Waders

Skuas to Sandgrouse

Pigeons to Thrushes

Warblers to Flycatchers

Tits to Buntings

 

If you are not sure where some of Lancashire's best birding sites are, then have a look at this link.

Birding Sites
     

 

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