Bird Atlas 2007-11 Newsletter
Please download a Bird Atlas Newsletter
here.
Timed Tetrad Visit coverage has been excellent on the Fylde but it remains
vital to keep sending in Roving Records. Roving Records are proving invaluable
by filling in gaps in the TTV data and are especially useful if they include
counts and breeding status information. Either enter your Roving Records at
www.birdatlas.net or continue to send your sighting to
news@fyldebirdclub.org.
Whilst coverage on the Fylde has been excellent, several tetrads in East
Lancashire still require Timed Tetrad Visits, with particular problems in
SD75, SD83, SD84 and SD85 - birders from the west who could help with coverage
here would be most welcome – please sign up at
www.birdatlas.net or e-mail
Tony Cooper.
Bird Atlas 2007-11 - Tawny Owls
Click here to view a map comparing the distribution of Tawny Owls from the current BTO Atlas surveys
with results from the 1997-2000 Lancashire Breeding Birds
Atlas.
The red dots show
distribution (winter and breeding combined) so far from the 2007-11
surveys and the green dots show 1997-2000 atlas distribution. As you can
see there is a major discrepancy. Although it is possible that Tawny
Owls have decreased in the past 10 years it seems extremely unlikely
that it's been so dramatic. It is much more likely that our nocturnal
coverage this time around is far less comprehensive. It's therefore also
likely that coverage for other nocturnal species is equally weak.
You can help by doing a couple of nocturnal jaunts in search of owls and
other nocturnal species and recording the results as roving records.
Please visit
www.birdatlas.net or contact
Stuart Piner on
07976-201755 for more information. Your help would be much appreciated.
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Bird Atlas 2007-11 We are now half-way through the project and making tremendous progress, but there is still much to do. Download the new August 2009 Newsletter here and view progress and preliminary results here and here.
Please consider helping out by completing
Timed Tetrad Visits or submitting Roving Records. |
Land-based counts of Common Scoters What to record... Date: Please send your counts, copying the list of details recorded (see above) in an e-mail to Paul Ellis Per Peter Cranswick 'The key things to record are the period over which you made counts, the numbers of birds flying in each direction and the conditions at the time, visibility as a measure of how easy it is to see the birds, wind strength (in Beaufort scale) and wind direction given that this may affect the birds' behaviour'. All records are needed as soon as possible. Colour-marked geese and swans Please report all sightings of Darvic neck-collared and leg-ringed birds. Click
here for more details on
colour-marked Pink-footed Geese
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