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All interesting bird records, whether rare or not, can be submitted to the county recorder. Submissions can be made on a series of record slips (available on request), by letter or preferably by email. For county rarities (Category A species) it is preferred if submissions are made by completing the Rarities Submission Form.
The Worcestershire County Bird Recorder is:
Brian Stretch
13 Pitmaston Road
St Johns
Worcester
WR2 4HY
Telephone: 01905 423417
Email: info@worcesterbirding.co.uk or
worcs-recorder@westmidlandbirdclub.com
Please note: Ideally any document attachments should be in Microsoft Word, Works or Excel
Request for your bird sightings in 2007
Please send your bird sightings for 2007 as soon as possible and ideally by no later than 30 June 2008. Of particular interest are counts of wintering passerines, including thrushes, pipits, larks, wagtails, finches and buntings, plus flocks of waders, gulls and waterfowl. Any breeding bird data, i.e. counts of singing males in one particular area, or records from nest box schemes are also of interest. Also submit descriptions of any unusual birds you’ve encountered in the county. Some birds are particularly scarce or rare in the county and are listed as Category A or Category B species. The lack of an acceptable description may lead to records being rejected. A much more detailed description will be required for difficult to identify species, e.g. Caspian Gull and Ring-billed Gull than for example, a White Stork. Please note that there have been a number of changes to the species included on Categories A and B and these will apply to all records from 1 January 2007. In addition, written descriptions are also required for scarce sub-species/races, including limosa race Black-tailed Godwit, Scandinavian Rock Pipit, flava race wagtails, autumn White Wagtails, Greenland Wheatear and Chiffchaff races. See below for the complete county list and the current status of each species.
Category A - these species require a full written description to confirm that the correct identification has been achieved.
Category B - these species require the observers name(s) for the record to be accepted but a brief description may also requested, particularly if the record is from an unusual location or at an unusual time of the year.
Category C - these species do not fall within the above categories for recording purposes but are still of interest to be included on the sightings page of this website.
Other Species - these species will not generally be included on the sightings page due to the number of birds occuring annually but early/late records of summer & winter visitors will be included. All records can of course be submitted to the county recorder.
The County List
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Species |
Category |
| 1 |
Mute Swan |
- |
| 2 |
Bewick's Swan |
A |
| 3 |
Whooper Swan |
A |
| 4 |
Bean Goose |
A |
| 5 |
Pink-footed Goose |
A |
| 6 |
White-fronted Goose |
A |
| 7 |
Greylag Goose |
- |
| 8 |
Canada Goose |
- |
| 9 |
Barnacle Goose |
C |
| 10 |
Brent Goose |
A |
| 11 |
Egyptian Goose |
B |
| 12 |
Shelduck |
- |
| 13 |
Mandarin |
C |
| 14 |
Wigeon |
- |
| 15 |
American Wigeon* |
A |
| 16 |
Gadwall |
- |
| 17 |
Teal |
- |
| 18 |
Green-winged Teal |
A |
| 19 |
Mallard |
- |
| 20 |
Pintail |
C |
| 21 |
Garganey |
B |
| 22 |
Blue-winged Teal |
A |
| 23 |
Shoveler |
- |
| 24 |
Red-crested Pochard |
B |
| 25 |
Pochard |
- |
| 26 |
Ring-necked Duck |
A |
| 27 |
Ferruginous Duck |
A |
| 28 |
Tufted Duck |
- |
| 29 |
Scaup |
B |
| 30 |
Lesser Scaup |
A |
| 31 |
Eider |
A |
| 32 |
Long-tailed Duck |
A |
| 33 |
Common Scoter |
B |
| 34 |
Surf Scoter |
A |
| 35 |
Velvet Scoter |
A |
| 36 |
Goldeneye |
- |
| 37 |
Smew |
A |
| 38 |
Red-breasted Merganser |
A |
| 39 |
Goosander |
C |
| 40 |
Ruddy Duck |
- |
| 41 |
Black Grouse (extinct) |
A |
| 42 |
Red-legged Partridge |
- |
| 43 |
Grey Partridge |
C |
| 44 |
Quail |
A |
| 45 |
Pheasant |
- |
| 46 |
Red-throated Diver |
A |
| 47 |
Black-throated Diver |
A |
| 48 |
Great Northern Diver |
A |
| 49 |
Little Grebe |
- |
| 50 |
Great Crested Grebe |
- |
| 51 |
Red-necked Grebe |
A |
| 52 |
Slavonian Grebe |
A |
| 53 |
Black-necked Grebe |
A |
| 54 |
Fulmar |
A |
| 55 |
Manx Shearwater |
A |
| 56 |
Storm Petrel |
A |
| 57 |
Leach's Petrel |
A |
| 58 |
Gannet |
A |
| 59 |
Cormorant |
- |
| 60 |
Shag |
A |
| 61 |
Bittern |
A |
| 62 |
Little Bittern |
A |
| 63 |
Night Heron |
A |
| 64 |
Squacco Heron* |
A |
| 65 |
Cattle Egret |
A |
| 66 |
Little Egret |
C |
| 67 |
Great White Egret |
A |
| 68 |
Grey Heron |
- |
| 69 |
Purple Heron |
A |
| 70 |
Black Stork |
A |
| 71 |
White Stork |
A |
| 72 |
Spoonbill |
A |
| 73 |
Honey Buzzard |
A |
| 74 |
Black Kite |
A |
| 75 |
Red Kite |
B |
| 76 |
White-tailed Eagle |
A |
| 77 |
Marsh Harrier |
A |
| 78 |
Hen Harrier |
A |
| 79 |
Montagu's Harrier |
A |
| 80 |
Goshawk |
A |
| 81 |
Sparrowhawk |
- |
| 82 |
Buzzard |
- |
| 83 |
Rough-legged Buzzard |
A |
| 84 |
Osprey |
A |
| 85 |
Kestrel |
- |
| 86 |
Red-footed Falcon |
A |
| 87 |
Merlin |
B |
| 88 |
Hobby |
C |
| 89 |
Peregrine |
C |
| 90 |
Water Rail |
C |
| 91 |
Spotted Crake |
A |
| 92 |
Corncrake |
A |
| 93 |
Moorhen |
- |
| 94 |
Coot |
- |
| 95 |
Common Crane |
A |
| 96 |
Great Bustard |
A |
| 97 |
Oystercatcher |
C |
| 98 |
Black-winged Stilt |
A |
| 99 |
Avocet |
A** |
| 100 |
Stone Curlew |
A |
| 101 |
Collared Pratincole |
A |
| 102 |
Little Ringed Plover |
C |
| 103 |
Ringed Plover |
C |
| 104 |
Kentish Plover |
A |
| 105 |
Dotterel |
A |
| 106 |
Golden Plover |
C |
| 107 |
Grey Plover |
A |
| 108 |
Lapwing |
- |
| 109 |
Knot |
B |
| 110 |
Sanderling |
B |
| 111 |
Little Stint |
B |
| 112 |
Temminck's Stint |
A |
| 113 |
Least Sandpiper |
A |
| 114 |
White-rumped Sandpiper |
A |
| 115 |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
A |
| 116 |
Curlew Sandpiper |
B |
| 117 |
Purple Sandpiper |
A |
| 118 |
Dunlin |
C |
| 119 |
Ruff |
C |
| 120 |
Jack Snipe |
C |
| 121 |
Snipe |
- |
| 122 |
Long-billed Dowitcher |
A |
| 123 |
Woodcock |
C |
| 124 |
Black-tailed Godwit |
C |
| 125 |
Bar-tailed Godwit |
B |
| 126 |
Whimbrel |
B |
| 127 |
Curlew |
- |
| 128 |
Spotted Redshank |
B |
| 129 |
Redshank |
- |
| 130 |
Greenshank |
C |
| 131 |
Green Sandpiper |
C |
| 132 |
Wood Sandpiper |
A |
| 133 |
Common Sandpiper |
C |
| 134 |
Turnstone |
B |
| 135 |
Wilson's Phalarope |
A |
| 136 |
Red-necked Phalarope |
A |
| 137 |
Grey Phalarope |
A |
| 138 |
Pomarine Skua |
A |
| 139 |
Arctic Skua |
A |
| 140 |
Long-tailed Skua |
A |
| 141 |
Great Skua |
A |
| 142 |
Mediterranean Gull |
C |
| 143 |
Laughing Gull |
A |
| 144 |
Little Gull |
B |
| 145 |
Sabine's Gull |
A |
| 146 |
Black-headed Gull |
- |
| 147 |
Ring-billed Gull |
A |
| 148 |
Common Gull |
- |
| 149 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
- |
| 150 |
Caspian Gull |
A |
| 151 |
Yellow-legged Gull |
C |
| 152 |
Herring Gull |
- |
| 153 |
Iceland Gull |
A |
| 154 |
Glaucous Gull |
A |
| 155 |
Great Black-backed Gull |
C |
| 156 |
Kittiwake |
B |
| 157 |
Little Tern |
A |
| 158 |
Caspian Tern |
A |
| 159 |
Whiskered Tern |
A |
| 160 |
Black Tern |
B |
| 161 |
White-winged Black Tern |
A |
| 162 |
Sandwich Tern |
A |
| 163 |
Common Tern |
- |
| 164 |
Roseate Tern |
A |
| 165 |
Arctic Tern |
B |
| 166 |
Razorbill |
A |
| 167 |
Little Auk |
A |
| 168 |
Puffin |
A |
| 169 |
Pallas's Sandgrouse |
A |
| 170 |
Stock Dove |
- |
| 171 |
Woodpigeon |
- |
| 172 |
Collared Dove |
- |
| 173 |
Turtle Dove |
C |
| 174 |
Ring-necked Parakeet |
A |
| 175 |
Cuckoo |
- |
| 176 |
Barn Owl |
- |
| 177 |
Little Owl |
- |
| 178 |
Tawny Owl |
- |
| 179 |
Long-eared Owl |
A |
| 180 |
Short-eared Owl |
B |
| 181 |
Tengmalm's Owl |
A |
| 182 |
Nightjar |
A |
| 183 |
Swift |
- |
| 184 |
Alpine Swift |
A |
| 185 |
Kingfisher |
- |
| 186 |
Bee-eater |
A |
| 187 |
Hoopoe |
A |
| 188 |
Wryneck |
A |
| 189 |
Green Woodpecker |
- |
| 190 |
Great Spotted Woodpecker |
- |
| 191 |
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker |
C |
| 192 |
Woodlark |
A |
| 193 |
Skylark |
- |
| 194 |
Shorelark |
A |
| 195 |
Sand Martin |
- |
| 196 |
Swallow |
- |
| 197 |
House Martin |
- |
| 198 |
Red-rumped Swallow |
A |
| 199 |
Richard's Pipit |
A |
| 200 |
Tree Pipit |
C |
| 201 |
Meadow Pipit |
- |
| 202 |
Rock Pipit |
B |
| 203 |
Water Pipit |
A |
| 204 |
Yellow Wagtail |
C |
| 205 |
Grey Wagtail |
- |
| 206 |
Pied Wagtail |
- |
| 207 |
Waxwing |
A |
| 208 |
Dipper |
C |
| 209 |
Wren |
- |
| 210 |
Dunnock |
- |
| 211 |
Robin |
- |
| 212 |
Nightingale |
C |
| 213 |
Bluethroat |
A |
| 214 |
Black Redstart |
A |
| 215 |
Redstart |
C |
| 216 |
Whinchat |
C |
| 217 |
Stonechat |
C |
| 218 |
Wheatear |
C |
| 219 |
Pied Wheatear* |
A |
| 220 |
Ring Ouzel |
C |
| 221 |
Blackbird |
- |
| 222 |
Dusky Thrush |
A |
| 223 |
Black-throated Thrush |
A |
| 224 |
Fieldfare |
- |
| 225 |
Song Thrush |
- |
| 226 |
Redwing |
- |
| 227 |
Mistle Thrush |
- |
| 228 |
Cetti's Warbler |
A** |
| 229 |
Grasshopper Warbler |
C |
| 230 |
Savi's Warbler |
A |
| 231 |
Aquatic Warbler |
A |
| 232 |
Sedge Warbler |
- |
| 233 |
Marsh Warbler |
A |
| 234 |
Reed Warbler |
- |
| 235 |
Icterine Warbler |
A |
| 236 |
Blackcap |
- |
| 237 |
Garden Warbler |
C |
| 238 |
Lesser Whitethroat |
- |
| 239 |
Whitethroat |
- |
| 240 |
Dartford Warbler |
A |
| 241 |
Pallas's Warbler |
A |
| 242 |
Yellow-browed Warbler |
A |
| 243 |
Wood Warbler |
C |
| 244 |
Chiffchaff |
- |
| 245 |
Willow Warbler |
- |
| 246 |
Goldcrest |
- |
| 247 |
Firecrest |
A |
| 248 |
Spotted Flycatcher |
C |
| 249 |
Pied Flycatcher |
C |
| 250 |
Bearded Tit |
A |
| 251 |
Long-tailed Tit |
- |
| 252 |
Blue Tit |
- |
| 253 |
Great Tit |
- |
| 254 |
Coal Tit |
- |
| 255 |
Willow Tit |
A |
| 256 |
Marsh Tit |
C |
| 257 |
Nuthatch |
- |
| 258 |
Treecreeper |
- |
| 259 |
Golden Oriole |
A |
| 260 |
Red-backed Shrike |
A |
| 261 |
Lesser Grey Shrike |
A |
| 262 |
Great Grey Shrike |
A |
| 263 |
Woodchat Shrike |
A |
| 264 |
Jay |
- |
| 265 |
Magpie |
- |
| 266 |
Chough |
A |
| 267 |
Jackdaw |
- |
| 268 |
Rook |
- |
| 269 |
Carrion Crow |
- |
| 270 |
Hooded Crow |
A |
| 271 |
Raven |
- |
| 272 |
Starling |
- |
| 273 |
Rose-coloured Starling |
A |
| 274 |
House Sparrow |
- |
| 275 |
Tree Sparrow |
C |
| 276 |
Chaffinch |
- |
| 277 |
Brambling |
C |
| 278 |
Serin |
A |
| 279 |
Greenfinch |
- |
| 280 |
Goldfinch |
- |
| 281 |
Siskin |
C |
| 282 |
Linnet |
- |
| 283 |
Twite |
A |
| 284 |
Mealy Redpoll |
A |
| 285 |
Lesser Redpoll |
C |
| 286 |
Arctic Redpoll |
A |
| 287 |
Two-barred Crossbill |
A |
| 288 |
Crossbill |
C |
| 289 |
Bullfinch |
- |
| 290 |
Hawfinch |
C |
| 291 |
Lapland Bunting* |
A |
| 292 |
Snow Bunting |
A |
| 293 |
Pine Bunting |
A |
| 294 |
Yellowhammer |
- |
| 295 |
Cirl Bunting (extinct) |
A |
| 296 |
Rustic Bunting |
A |
| 297 |
Little Bunting |
A |
| 298 |
Reed Bunting |
- |
| 299 |
Corn Bunting |
C |
* subject to acceptance by the relevant rarities committee
** away from Upton Warren
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