Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Species sponsorship
- Introduction
- A history of bird recording in Nottinghamshire
- A description of Nottinghamshire and its bird habitats
- Methods
- Species accounts
- Additional Records 2014–2018
- Appendix: Additional and contentious species
- References
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Additional Records 2014–2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Species sponsorship
- Introduction
- A history of bird recording in Nottinghamshire
- A description of Nottinghamshire and its bird habitats
- Methods
- Species accounts
- Additional Records 2014–2018
- Appendix: Additional and contentious species
- References
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
The systematic list covers all records for the period up to 31 December 2013. This appendix includes further noteworthy records for the period from 2014 until 2018. Records are drawn from the 2014 and 2015 Annual Reports for Nottinghamshire and the British Birds Rarities Reports for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. A number of accepted, but as yet unpublished, records for 2016, 2017 and 2018 have also been included.
Records listed here include the first records of Pallid Harrier and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull for Nottinghamshire, and the first confirmed breeding records for Eurasian Bittern, Mediterranean Gull, Herring Gull, European Bee-eater and Bearded Tit.
Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
A skein of 40 Barnacle Geese which flew east at Kilvington Lakes on 24 November 2014 may have been wild birds.
Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris
There were two additional reports in 2016 of three birds at Budby Pumping Station and at Girton on 17 January 2016 and of a lone bird at Bank End Road North on 26 December 2016 and in 2018 a single bird was seen at Budby Pumping Station on 9 December 2018.
Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus
A bird at Lound on 5 June 2016 was the latest departing migrant ever recorded in Nottinghamshire.
Mute Swan Cygnus olor
A count of 291 birds at Netherfield Lagoons on 1 May 2016 is the highest ever site count in Nottinghamshire.
Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
On 22 March 2015, a total of 341 birds passed over Budby Common, 250 birds went north-west over Kilvington Lakes, 204 birds went north over Langford Lowfields and approximately 200 birds went northwest over Farnsfield. These are the highest ever site counts for the county.
A summering bird was seen at Newington South Quarry on 17 July 2015.
Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
A count of 29 birds at Attenborough NR on 2 September 2016 is the highest ever site count for Nottinghamshire.
Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
A count of 209 birds at Welbeck Lakes on 11 November 2018 is the highest ever count for Nottinghamshire.
Garganey Spatula querquedula
A drake at Eakring Flash and Rufford CP from 23 December 2014 to 4 May 2015 was the first ever winter record for Nottinghamshire. What was probably the same bird was present through the winters of 2015/16 and 2016/17.
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- The Birds of Nottinghamshire , pp. 569 - 575Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2019