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Swans to Cormorants Herons to Phalaropes
Current English name (BOU list), scientific name and authority.
Abundance (in a Blagdon context):
- Accidental - Five or less records
- Very Rare - Twenty or less records
- Rare - Less than annual; many years between records
- Very Scarce - Less than annual; typically every 2 or 3 years
- Scarce - Very small numbers virtually every year
- Uncommon - Recorded in low numbers each year
- Fairly Common - Occurs in reasonable numbers
- Common - Regularly occurs in good numbers
- Abundant - Occurs in large numbers
If the species is classed as Accidental or Very Rare then all records are detailed.
Occurrence (in a national context):
- Resident
- Summer Visitor
- Winter Visitor
- Passage Migrant
- Introduction
- Feral
- Vagrant
- Storm Driven
General Notes
Early Years (1898 - 1973)
Recent Years (1974 - 2010)
Best Locations to View
Atkinson-Willes G. National Wildfowl Counts 1952-1954. The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge.
Atkinson-Willes G.L. (Ed.) 1963. Wildfowl in Great Britain. London.
Bland R.L. & Tully J. 1992. Atlas of Breeding Birds in Avon, 1988-91. Gloucester.
Cramp S. & Simmons K.E.L. (eds.) 1978. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Volume I. Oxford.
Cranswick P.A., Waters R.J., Evans J. & Pollitt M.S. 1995. The Wetland Bird Survey 1993-94: Wildfowl and Wader Counts. Slimbridge.
Cranswick P.A., Waters R.J., Musgrove A.J. & Pollitt M.S. 1997. The Wetland Bird Survey 1995-96: Wildfowl and Wader Counts. Slimbridge.
Davis A.H. 1980. A Review of some Waterfowl at Blagdon Lake, 1971-1980. Bristol Ornithology, 13, pp. 94-96.
Davis H.H. 1948. A Revised List of the Birds of the Bristol District. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, vol. XXVII, part IV, pp. 225-268. 1947.
Davis H.H. et al. 1969. Somerset Birds 1968, p. 2.
Delany, S. 1993. Introduced and Escaped Geese in Britain in Summer 1991. Brit. Birds 86: 592-599, Dec. 1993.
Gregory, R.D., Wilkinson, N.I., Noble, D.G., Robinson, J.A., Brown, A.F., Hughes, J., Procter, D., Gibbons, D.W. & Galbraith, C.A. 2002. The population status of birds in the UK, Channel Islands & Isle of Man: an analysis of conservation concern 2002-2007. Brit. Birds 95: 410-448, Sep. 2002.
Hammacott H.R. 1984. BTO Mute Swan Census 1983. Avon Bird Report 1983, p. 46.
Lack, P., 1986. The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, Staffs.
Myles, S. (Ed.) 2000. The Flora of the Bristol Region, Berks.
Ogilvie M. & Pearson B. 1994. Wildfowl. London.
Owen M. 1977. Wildfowl of Europe. London.
Palmer E.M. & Ballance D.K. 1968. The Birds of Somerset. London.
Palmer P. 2000. First for Britain and Ireland 1600-1999. Chelmsford.
Parkin D.T. & Knox A.G. 2010. The Status of Birds in Britain & Ireland. Christopher Helm, London.
Rees E.C. & Beekman J.H. Northwest European Bewick's Swan's: a population in decline. Brit Birds 103: 640-650, Nov. 2010
Rowell, H., Ward, R., Hall, C. & Cranswick, P. 2004. The Naturalised Goose Survey 2000. Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Research Report, Slimbridge.
Sibley D.A. 2000. The North American Bird Guide. Sussex.
Sibley D.A. 2001. The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behaviour. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York.
Smith, Cecil 1869. The Birds of Somersetshire. London.
Snow D.W. & Perrins C.M. 1998. The Birds of the Western Palearctic Concise Edition. Volume I. Oxford.
Vinicombe K.E. Ring-billed Gulls in Britain and Ireland, Brit. Birds 78: 327-337, Jul. 1985.
Vinicombe K. & Cottridge D.M. 1996. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. A Photographic Record. HarperCollins Publishers, London.
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Swans to Cormarants Herons to Phalaropes
Updated 11 February, 2012