Patchwork Challenge: British and Ireland list

While we have all been obsessing about how many birds we may see in our own patch while creating our boundaries and, if you have one, our comparison scores it dawned on me that with 220+ patches entered we, as a patchwork collective, could accumulate a pretty impressive year list.

The next challenge was to work out how we could collate this data without leaving myself and Mark a huge amount of work! It appears that for January it’s going to be a bit of a task but once we have this month out of the way it should become easier. You will find below myself and Marks cumulative score of 89 species (108 pts) which is still less than some peoples patches!!!

If everyone who has seen any species not on our list could you please email/tweet/facebook us your additional species. We will then add a complete patchwork list to the blog and as from February you will find a couple extra boxes where you submit your scores on the blog. One box will ask for your best finds/highlight birds for the month and the other will be for new birds to the cumulative list.

I hope this is clear enough and hopefully we break the 400 species barrier this year :-)

 

1	Blackbird
2	Black-headed Gull
3	black-throated diver
4	Blue Tit
5	Brent Goose
6	Bullfinch
7	buzzard
8	Carrion Crow
9	Chaffinch
10	Chiffchaff
11	coal tit
12	Collared Dove
13	Common Gull
14	Common Scoter
15	Cormorant
16	Curlew
17	Dunlin
18	Dunnock
19	Eider
20	Fieldfare
21	Fulmar
22	Gannet
23	Goldcrest
24	Golden Plover
25	goldeneye
26	Goldfinch
27	Great Black-backed Gull
28	Great Crested Grebe
29	Great Northern Diver
30	Great Tit
31	Greenfinch
32	grey heron
33	grey wagtail
34	Greylag Goose
35	Guillemot
36	Herring Gull
37	hooded crow
38	House Sparrow
39	Jackdaw
40	Jay
41	Kestrel
42	Kittiwake
43	knot
44	Lapwing
45	Lesser black-backed Gull
46	Lesser Redpoll
47	Little Auk
48	long-tailed duck
49	Long-tailed Tit
50	Magpie
51	Mallard
52	Meadow Pipit
53	Mediterranean Gull
54	mute swan
55	Oystercatcher
56	Pheasant
57	pied wagtail
58	Pink-footed Goose
59	purple sandpiper
60	razorbill
61	Red-legged Partridge
62	Redshank
63	Red-throated Diver
64	redwing
65	ringed plover
66	Robin
67	Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon
68	rock pipit
69	Rook
70	Sanderling
71	shag
72	Shelduck
73	short-eared owl
74	Shoveler
75	Siskin
76	skylark
77	Snipe
78	Song Thrush
79	Starling
80	Tawny Owl
81	Teal
82	Turnstone
83	Velvet Scoter
84	waxwing
85	Whooper Swan
86	Wigeon
87	Woodcock
88	Woodpigeon
89	Wren