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Phil Andrews · Nov 28, 2011

Not sure where the "400 birds in a year" thread has gone but one of the more interesting areas it had meandered into was the lists of the respective counties. I am sure this is of interest to a great many birders but I can not find a single location that such info is held.

Perhaps we could coordinate them all here and also have an exchange of views and opinions on the relative performance of the counties.

To start off with the 4 counties that make up the West Midland Bird Club have, as at the publication of its last annual report of 2008, lists of:

Staffordshire - 313 (with Woodchat to be added)
Warwickshire - 307
Worcestershire - 300 (with Glossy Ibis, Spotted Sand and Barred Warbler to be added)
West Midlands - 271

birdboybowley · Nov 28, 2011

Sussex has a combined total of 384 (as of 2002) according to the SOS website. Must've been a few firsts to add by now (Izzy Wheatear, River Warbler...and LT Stint spring to mind

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Richard Klim · Nov 28, 2011

Somerset

Somerset (unfortunately excluding North Somerset, Bath & North East Somerset, and Bristol :C) had a total of 352 spp at 31 Dec 2008 according to the SOS website, and (I think) no new species since.

DaveN · Nov 28, 2011

Derbyshire's updated list is 319.

Cheshire Birder · Nov 28, 2011

351 spp for Cheshire as of March 2009

CB

Dog · Nov 28, 2011

The Warwickshire list is not as high as stated above, Red-breasted Flycatcher was seen by a known stringer & I don't know if his Greenish Warbler is in that total.

Mike.

DaveN · Nov 28, 2011

If we are eliminating known stringer records then the 'new' updated Derbyshire list is 12. :-O

Dog · Nov 28, 2011

Oh yeah, West Mids was created in 1974 & they nicked our Historical records of Red & Black Grouse.

Mike.

Phil Andrews · Nov 28, 2011

Dog said:
The Warwickshire list is not as high as stated above, Red-breasted Flycatcher was seen by a known stringer & I don't know if his Greenish Warbler is in that total.

Mike.

Hi Mike - no Greenish Warbler on the Warwickshire list but not aware that the RBF (Kingsbury Water Park?) has been reviewed / binned.

draycotebirding · Nov 28, 2011

Dog said:
Oh yeah, West Mids was created in 1974 & they nicked our Historical records of Red & Black Grouse.

Mike.

Hi Mike after much badgering by myself

they now have a note about the Red and Black Grouse for Warwickshire in the report, perhaps they should now have a look at the rest and see what County these belong to :eek!:

Storm Petrel 1970
Little Bittern 1836
Montagu’s Harrier 1951
Corncrake 1965
Little Bustard 1893
Red-necked Phalarope 1893
Gull-billed Tern 1896
Razorbill 1912
Pallas’s Sandgrouse 1888
Cirl Bunting 1950
Baltimore Oriole 1968

Regards

John

JoanT · Nov 28, 2011

upton-till-i-die said:
Staffordshire - 313 (with Woodchat to be added)
Warwickshire - 307
Worcestershire - 300 (with Glossy Ibis, Spotted Sand and Barred Warbler to be added)
West Midlands - 271

Hertfordshire 307 officially in 2009 bird report and only county addition since that I am aware of will be the ringed Eastern Crowned Warbler last month.

Dog · Nov 28, 2011

upton-till-i-die said:
Hi Mike - no Greenish Warbler on the Warwickshire list but not aware that the RBF (Kingsbury Water Park?) has been reviewed / binned.

Looking at the 2004 WMBC report I was not aware of the 1992 Kingsbury bird but the one at Birchmoor in 2004 & the same observer is submitting a Black-throated Thrush plus has a couple of Red-backed Shrikes, a Franklin's Gull & lots more single observer sightings of dubious authenticity, the way hes going we will have a bigger Warks list than Norfolk.

Mike.

lewis20126 · Nov 28, 2011

Hampshire 364 (includes 8 Cat B and 12 cat C) plus acceptable additions from 2010 +2011 (so assume Red-flanked Bluetail, Rustic Bunting, Booted Warbler, Izzy Shrike, Spectacled Warbler, other?) = 369+

Despite such an apparently high total, we do get very few rare birds annually (most of these suppressed!") and seeing 300+ in the county is not easy!

cheers, alan

draycotebirding · Nov 28, 2011

upton-till-i-die said:
Not sure where the "400 birds in a year" thread has gone but one of the more interesting areas it had meandered into was the lists of the respective counties. I am sure this is of interest to a great many birders but I can not find a single location that such info is held.

Perhaps we could coordinate them all here and also have an exchange of views and opinions on the relative performance of the counties.

To start off with the 4 counties that make up the West Midland Bird Club have, as at the publication of its last annual report of 2008, lists of:

Staffordshire - 313 (with Woodchat to be added)
Warwickshire - 307
Worcestershire - 300 (with Glossy Ibis, Spotted Sand and Barred Warbler to be added)
West Midlands - 271

Not sure how many times and for how long you can edit your posts, but is it possible as they come in to put the other Counties totals in the first post?

Regards

John

MSA · Nov 28, 2011

Dorset has 417 up to end of 2010.

I'm surprised it's so much higher than Hants - does Hants include the pre-1974 records for Christchurch Harbour, or were they ditched when we "migrated"? Edit - just checked my recollection, and Hants ditched all records when we moved to Dorset, but Dorset didn't add them, so pre-1974 Harbour records are on NO county list!

Out of interest, the Christchurch Harbour total is 321, plus 3 pending (RB Goose and RC Starling from this year, plus Elegant Tern). I believe this excludes "historic" records, and is just from the formation of CHOG in 1956.

Phil Andrews · Nov 28, 2011

County totals so far (based on current recording areas):-

Dorset - 417 (2010)
Sussex - 384 (2002, with 3+ pending)
Hampshire - 364 (2009, with 5 pending)
Somerset - 352 (2008)
Cheshire - 351 (2009)
Derbyshire - 319 (2011)
Staffordshire - 313 (2008, with 1 pending)
Hertfordshire - 307 (2010, with 1 pending)
Warwickshire - 307 (2008)
Worcestershire - 300 (2008, with 3 pending)
West Midlands - 271 (2008)

Jacana · Nov 29, 2011

I read somewhere recently that Shropshire's list stood at 265, though I believe that was a few years old.

Cornwall's is about 424 but this has a few species pending and has no records prior to 1950, according to http://www.cornwall-birding.co.uk/the-cornwall-species-list/. However there are 412 species according to http://www.cbwps.org.uk/County list.htm

Is there a central database of lists anywhere?

birdboybowley · Nov 29, 2011

Forgot, add RF Bluetail to Sussex...but we generally don't mention that bird......

Mark Newsome · Nov 29, 2011

County Durham is 382 (plus another 3 pending from this year still to be accepted by BBRC, but all well twitched/photographed - White-throated Robin, Sandhill Crane, Pallid Harrier). This is based on the long standing County Durham recording area, basically Vice County 66 (Tyne to Tees).
The record year total for the county is this year (~272) and the record yearlist for one person is also this year (~253).

Mark

Gavin Haig · Nov 29, 2011

Devon total at the end of 2009 was 423, and the only new additions that I can think of are the Barolo's Shearwater on Lundy and the poxy Solitary Sandpiper that coincided its visit to my patch with mine to Scilly. So, 425 or thereabouts. A couple less without Lundy...

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