Complete list of birds ringed on Lundy, 1947 to 2022

(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 1947–2022

Greylag Goose

1

Mallard

41

Quail

1

Little Grebe

1

Fulmar

147

Manx Shearwater

5,861

Storm Petrel

491

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

6

Golden Plover

4

Lapwing

211

Knot

4

Semipalmated Sandpiper

1

Little Stint

6

Least Sandpiper

2

Pectoral Sandpiper

6

Curlew Sandpiper

2

Dunlin

82

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

2

Jack Snipe

13

Snipe

49

Woodcock

18

Bar-tailed Godwit

1

Whimbrel

21

Curlew

34

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

43

Long-eared Owl

5

Short-eared Owl

2

Nightjar

2

Swift

14

Hoopoe

1

Wryneck

25

Great Spotted Woodpecker

12

Short-toed Lark

1

Skylark

635

Sand Martin

256

Swallow

13,189

House Martin

462

Richard's Pipit 

1

Olive-backed Pipit

1

Tree Pipit

86

Meadow Pipit

5,279

Red-throated Pipit

1

Rock Pipit

32

Yellow Wagtail

5

Grey Wagtail

73

Pied Wagtail

194

Citrine Wagtail

1

Wren

1,486

Dunnock

1,050

Robin

2,281

Thrush Nightingale

1

Nightingale

11

Bluethroat

3

Red-flanked Bluetail 

2

Black Redstart

44

Redstart

402

Whinchat

120

Stonechat

319

Wheatear

1,002

Desert Wheatear 

1

Swainson's Thrush

2

Grey-cheeked Thrush

1

Veery

2

Ring Ouzel

43

Blackbird

4,789

Fieldfare 

34

Song Thrush

1,125

Redwing

1,481

Mistle Thrush

7

White's Thrush

1

American Robin

1

Cetti's Warbler 

6

Grasshopper Warbler

490

Aquatic Warbler

1

Sedge Warbler

2,882

Paddyfield Warbler

1

Marsh Warbler

3

Reed Warbler

163

Blyth’s Reed Warbler

2

Icterine Warbler

19

Melodious Warbler

33

Booted Warbler

1

Blackcap

12,490

Garden Warbler

888

Barred Warbler

11

Lesser Whitethroat

146

Whitethroat

3,470

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

50

Chiffchaff

7,144

Willow Warbler

17,889

Goldcrest

11,600

Firecrest

303

Spotted Flycatcher

1,420

Red-breasted Flycatcher

23

Pied Flycatcher

797

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

23

Raven 

47

Starling

1,454

Rose-coloured Starling

1

House Sparrow 

1,159

Tree Sparrow

5

Red-eyed Vireo

6

Chaffinch

9,359

Brambling

152

Greenfinch

575

Goldfinch

1,544

Siskin

2,051

Linnet

1,744

Common Redpoll

4

Lesser Redpoll

96

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

11

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  131,780
   

Total number of species ringed

*177

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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