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The current Worcestershire County Bird Recorder is:
Steven Payne
email: worcs-recorder@westmidlandbirdclub.com
Postal address:
6 Norbury Close
Redditch
Worcestershire
B98 8RP
01527 60169
Species Status in Worcestershire
Category A - these species require a full written description to confirm that the correct identification has been achieved and are listed below:
Bewick's Swan, Whooper Swan, Bean Goose, White-fronted Goose, Brent Goose
American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Eider, Long-tailed Duck, Surf Scoter, Velvet Scoter, Smew, Red-breasted Merganser
all divers, Red-necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Black-necked Grebe
Fulmar, Manx Shearwater, Storm Petrel, Leach's Petrel, Gannet, Shag
Bittern, Night Heron, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Purple Heron, White Stork, Spoonbill
Honey Buzzard, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, all harriers, Goshawk, Rough-legged Buzzard, Osprey, Red-footed Falcon
Quail, Spotted Crake, Corncrake, Common Crane
Black-winged Stilt, Stone Curlew, Kentish Plover, Dotterel, Grey Plover, Temminck's Stint, White-rumped Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, all phalaropes
Sabine's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Caspian Gull, Iceland Gull, Glaucous Gull
Little Tern, Sandwich Tern, Roseate Tern, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Black Tern
all skuas, all auks
Ring-necked Parakeet, Long-eared Owl, Nightjar, Red-rumped Swallow
Alpine Swift, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Woodlark, Shorelark
Richard’s Pipit, Water Pipit, Scandinavian Rock Pipit
Waxwing, Bluethroat, Black Redstart
Cetti’s Warbler, Savi’s Warbler, Aquatic Warbler, Marsh Warber, Icterine Warbler, Barred Warbler, Dartford Warbler, Pallas’s Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest
Bearded Tit, Willow Tit, Golden Oriole, all shrikes
Chough, Hooded Crow, Rose-coloured Starling
Serin, Twite, Mealy Redpoll, Arctic Redpoll
Lapland Bunting, Snow Bunting, Cirl Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Little Bunting
And all BBRC Rarities
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.
Pink-footed Goose, Egyptian Goose
female & autumn Garganey, female Red-crested Pochard, female Scaup, female Common Scoter
Merlin, Osprey
Knot, Sanderling, Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel
Mediterranean Gull, Little Gull, Kittiwake
Black Tern, Arctic Tern
Short-eared Owl
Rock Pipit, Nightingale, Grasshopper Warbler