Sunday 3 February 2013

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

4 comments:

  1. I have Merlin on my Cullaloe patch :)

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  2. also RB Merganser (Inverkeithing), Treecreeper (Cullaloe), Water Rail (Cullaloe), Dipper (Cullaloe).

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  3. Lots more from Thetford:
    Barn Owl
    Bittern
    Brambling
    Canada Goose
    Coot
    Dipper (Black-bellied)
    Egyptian Goose
    Gadwall
    Goosander
    Great Spotted Woodpecker
    Green Woodpecker
    Kingfisher
    Linnet
    Little Egret
    Little Grebe
    Marsh Tit
    Mistle Thrush
    Moorhen
    Nuthatch
    Pochard
    Reed Bunting
    Sparrowhawk
    Stock Dove
    Treecreeper
    Tufted Duck
    Water Rail
    Yellowhammer
    Yellow-legged Gull

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  4. can add Caspian Gull as of today

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