Yearlist Challenge 2023
Results to Date 04-09-2023
The Fylde Yearlist Challenge returns for 2023 following three years dormant due to the covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions. A light-hearted contest, the aim is to see or hear as many species of bird within the Fylde recording area over the course of the year. The competition provides some extra motivation to your Fylde birding, an incentive to get out and about around the Fylde exploring those lesser-birded spots in the search for additional species.
To enter, simply submit your first list by the 28th February, using the blank template to the right. No late entries will be allowed after the 28th February.
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Comparative League (2023 total / 2019 total)
Rules
- The competition is open to all Fylde Bird Club members. To join the Fylde Bird Club click here.
- The competition runs from the 1st January 2023 to the 31st December 2023.
- All species seen or heard within the boundaries of the Fylde Recording Area can be counted - west of the A6, north of the River Ribble, south of the River Lune and River Conder.
- All entrants must declare their intention to compete in the Yearlist Challenge and submit their first list by the 28th February 2023. Any entries received after this date will not be included in the competition.
- Yearlist totals must be updated at least once every three months. Please email your yearlist updates as regularly as possible - each entrant's list will be displayed on this page. The final list must be received by 15th January 2024 at the latest, so that the winner can be announced at the January 2024 meeting.
- BOU taxonomy will be used during the competition.
- To ensure that all entrants have an equally fair chance to see rare and scarce species during the competition, please promtly put news out on the Fylde WhatsApp group, as welll as continuing to send all relevant bird news to Rare Bird Alert: - phone 02070-382820 or Birdguides - 0333 577 2473. Any suppressed birds cannot be included in yearlist totals.
- All records are subject to review by the Fylde Bird Club's records committee and only records that are considered to be accurate and beyond doubt will be published, in order to maintain the absolute integrity of the Fylde Bird Club's database of records.