Ringing
Complete list of birds ringed on Lundy, 1947 to 2023
(1947 is the year in which the Lundy Field Society was established; Lundy Bird Observatory was reaccredited by the Bird Observatories Council in 2023)
Total number ringed 1947–2023 |
|
Greylag Goose |
1 |
Mallard |
42 |
Quail |
1 |
Little Grebe |
1 |
Fulmar |
147 |
Manx Shearwater |
6,381 |
Barolo Shearwater |
1 |
Storm Petrel |
1,042 |
Cormorant |
46 |
Shag |
1,187 |
Sparrowhawk |
19 |
Buzzard |
7 |
Kestrel |
29 |
Merlin |
6 |
Peregrine |
11 |
Water Rail |
55 |
Spotted Crake |
1 |
Corncrake |
5 |
Moorhen |
1 |
Oystercatcher |
37 |
Ringed Plover |
3 |
Dotterel |
7 |
Golden Plover |
9 |
Lapwing |
211 |
Knot |
4 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
1 |
Little Stint |
6 |
Least Sandpiper |
2 |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
6 |
Curlew Sandpiper |
2 |
Dunlin |
84 |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
2 |
Jack Snipe |
33 |
Snipe |
168 |
Woodcock |
33 |
Bar-tailed Godwit |
1 |
Whimbrel |
21 |
Curlew |
34 |
Redshank |
1 |
Greenshank |
2 |
Green Sandpiper |
1 |
Wood Sandpiper |
1 |
Common Sandpiper |
1 |
Turnstone |
3 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
457 |
Herring Gull |
2,949 |
Great Black-backed Gull |
132 |
Kittiwake |
2,535 |
Guillemot |
2,704 |
Razorbill |
1,238 |
Puffin |
10 |
Stock Dove |
1 |
Woodpigeon |
24 |
Collared Dove |
22 |
Turtle Dove |
13 |
Cuckoo |
45 |
Long-eared Owl |
5 |
Short-eared Owl |
2 |
Nightjar |
2 |
Swift |
14 |
Hoopoe |
2 |
Wryneck |
29 |
Great Spotted Woodpecker |
12 |
Short-toed Lark |
1 |
Skylark |
701 |
Sand Martin |
257 |
Swallow |
13,219 |
House Martin |
464 |
Richard's Pipit |
1 |
Olive-backed Pipit |
1 |
Tree Pipit |
89 |
Meadow Pipit |
5,382 |
Red-throated Pipit |
1 |
Rock Pipit |
32 |
Yellow Wagtail |
5 |
Grey Wagtail |
73 |
Pied Wagtail |
194 |
Citrine Wagtail |
1 |
Wren |
1,540 |
Dunnock |
1,072 |
Robin |
2,348 |
Thrush Nightingale |
1 |
Nightingale |
11 |
Bluethroat |
3 |
Red-flanked Bluetail |
2 |
Black Redstart |
44 |
Redstart |
406 |
Whinchat |
123 |
Stonechat |
331 |
Wheatear |
1,109 |
Desert Wheatear |
1 |
Swainson's Thrush |
2 |
Grey-cheeked Thrush |
1 |
Veery |
2 |
Ring Ouzel |
44 |
Blackbird |
4,820 |
Fieldfare |
36 |
Song Thrush |
1,126 |
Redwing |
1,486 |
Mistle Thrush |
7 |
White's Thrush |
1 |
American Robin |
1 |
Cetti's Warbler |
6 |
Grasshopper Warbler |
497 |
Aquatic Warbler |
1 |
Sedge Warbler |
2,962 |
Paddyfield Warbler |
1 |
Marsh Warbler |
3 |
Reed Warbler |
187 |
Blyth’s Reed Warbler |
2 |
Icterine Warbler |
19 |
Melodious Warbler |
34 |
Booted Warbler |
1 |
Blackcap |
13,494 |
Garden Warbler |
898 |
Barred Warbler |
12 |
Lesser Whitethroat |
148 |
Whitethroat |
3,542 |
Dartford Warbler |
1 |
Rüppell's Warbler |
1 |
Subalpine Warbler |
13 |
Sardinian Warbler |
1 |
Greenish Warbler |
2 |
Arctic Warbler |
2 |
Pallas's Warbler |
5 |
Yellow-browed Warbler |
112 |
Radde's Warbler |
1 |
Western Bonelli's Warbler |
2 |
Bonelli's Warbler sp. |
1 |
Wood Warbler |
51 |
Chiffchaff |
7,400 |
Willow Warbler |
18,487 |
Goldcrest |
11,847 |
Firecrest |
314 |
Spotted Flycatcher |
1,458 |
Red-breasted Flycatcher |
23 |
Pied Flycatcher |
816 |
Long-tailed Tit |
26 |
Blue Tit |
124 |
Great Tit |
35 |
Coal Tit |
79 |
Treecreeper |
34 |
Golden Oriole |
7 |
Red-backed Shrike |
10 |
Great Grey Shrike |
1 |
Woodchat Shrike |
11 |
Jackdaw |
2 |
Carrion Crow |
24 |
Raven |
47 |
Starling |
1,639 |
Rose-coloured Starling |
1 |
Waxwing |
1 |
House Sparrow |
1,243 |
Tree Sparrow |
5 |
Red-eyed Vireo |
8 |
Chaffinch |
9,398 |
Brambling |
153 |
Greenfinch |
576 |
Goldfinch |
1,694 |
Siskin |
2,124 |
Linnet |
1,820 |
Common Redpoll |
4 |
Lesser Redpoll |
97 |
Crossbill |
38 |
Common Rosefinch |
35 |
Bullfinch |
33 |
Hawfinch |
11 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
1 |
Blackpoll Warbler |
1 |
Common Yellowthroat |
1 |
Eastern Towhee |
1 |
Lapland Bunting |
8 |
Snow Bunting |
12 |
Yellowhammer |
1 |
Ortolan Bunting |
6 |
Rustic Bunting |
3 |
Little Bunting |
8 |
Yellow-breasted Bunting |
1 |
Reed Bunting |
12 |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
1 |
Baltimore Oriole |
2 |
Total number of birds ringed | 136,523 |
Total number of species ringed |
*180 |
Numbers of pulli – i.e. chicks/nestlings are included in the totals shown. However the relative numbers of pulli and fully-grown birds ringed are not known for some past years, so the relevant sub-totals cannot be given.
*Total number of species ringed includes Western Bonelli's Warbler but excludes Bonelli's Warbler sp.

Ruppell's Warbler by Mike Langman from The Birds of Lundy
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