This list spans the period from the construction of Farmoor 1 in 1965 and the addition of Farmoor 2 in 1974 to the present day.
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Red-throated Diver (G. stellata) Scarce visitor.
Black-throated Diver (G .artica) Very scarce visitor.
Four records:
1, 25th-28th December 1976.
1, 26th January-4th February 1996.
1, 20th-24th December 2000.
1, summer plumaged adult, 2nd May 2004.
Great Northern Diver (G. immer) Scarce winter visitor.
Great Crested Grebe (P. cristatus) Resident.
Red-necked Grebe (P. grisegna) Scarce winter visitor.
Little Grebe (T. ruficollis) Resident.
Slavonian Grebe (P. auritus) Scarce passage migrant, winter visitor.
Black-necked Grebe (P.nigricollis) Uncommon passage migrant & winter visitor
Fulmar ( F. glacialis) Very rare visitor.
Two records:
1, 11th July 1981.
1, 4th-6th July 2004.
Manx Shearwater (P. puffinus) Rare autumn vistitor.
Leach’s Storm Petrel (H. leucorhoa) Rare autumn visitor.
An unprecedented arrival of three birds occurred during 6th and
7th December 2006, part of a national 'wreck' of this species.
Two of these birds were killed by Carrion Crows
Gannet (S. bassana) Very rare visitor.
Four records of seven birds:
4, September 1970.
1, January 5th 1983.
1, 31st May-1st June, 1991.
1, 22nd June, 1997.
Cormorant (P.carbo) Resident.
Shag (P. aristotelis) Very scare visitor.
Bittern (B. stellaris) Very scarce winter visitor.
Little Egret (E. garzetta ) Scarce but increasing visitor.
Grey Heron (A. cinerea) Resident.
Purple Heron (A. purpurea).
One Record:
A juvenile was present in the Pinkhill/Shrike Meadow area from 7th to 12th August 2007.
White Stork (Ciconia ciconia).
One Record:
One flew high NW at 10.10am on 3rd May 2008.
Whooper Swan (C. Cygnus) Scarce winter visitor.
Bewick’s Swan (C. columbianus) Scarce winter visitor.
Mute Swan (C. olor) Resident.
Bean Goose (A. fabilis) Rare winter visitor.
Pink-footed Goose (A. brachyrhynchus) Rare winter visitor.
White-fronted Goose (A. albifrons) Rare winter visitor.
Canada Goose (B. Canadensis) Resident.
Brent Goose (B. bernicla) Scarce visitor.
Shelduck (T. tadorna) Occasional visitor.
Egyptian Goose (A. aegyptiacus) Very scarce visitor.
Wigeon (A. Penelope) Winter visitor.
Mallard (A. platyrhynchos) Resident.
Gadwall (A .strepera) Resident.
Pintail (A. acuta) Winter visitor.
Shoveler (A. clypeata) Winter visitor, partial resident.
Teal (A. crecca) Winter visitor, partial resident.
Garganey (A. querquedula) Scarce spring and autumn visitor.
Mandarin (A. galericulata) Rare feral visitor.
White-headed Duck (O. leucocophala) Very rare visitor.
One record:
Female/immature on 3rd November 2001 could relate to a wild individual.
Ruddy Duck (O.jamaicensis) Scarce visitor.
Red-crested Pochard (N rufina) Scarce feral visitor.
Pochard (A. farina) Winter visitor.
Tufted Duck (A. fuligula) Winter visitor & resident.
Ring-necked Duck (A. collaris) Rare vagrant.
Two records:
Male,15-24th January 1967.
Male,15th November 1973-8th May 1974.
Scaup (A. marila) Scarce winter visitor.
LESSER SCAUP (A affinis) Rare vagrant.
One record:
Female Pinkhill reserve, 24th March 2000.
(This record was rejected by the BBRC)
Eider (S. mollissima) Very rare visitor.
Four records of nine birds:
Female & two juveniles, 5th November-31st December 1975.
Male, 9th-16th May 1979.
2 males, 26th January 1983.
A male & two females, 31st October 1993.
A Female, 20th November 1993.
Long-tailed Duck (C. hyemalis) Scarce winter visitor.
Common Scoter (M. nigra) Scare spring and autumn visitor.
Velvet Scoter (M. fusca) Rare spring and autumn visitor.
Most recent record:
Female,6th November 1994.
Surf Scoter (M. perspicillata) Rare vagrant.
One record:
Adult male, 27th March-4th April 1998.
Goldeneye (B. clangula) Winter visitor.
Smew (M. albellus) Scarce winter visitor.
Red-breasted Merganser (M. serrator) Scarce winter visitor.
Goosander (M. merganser) Winter visitor.
Red Kite (M. milvus) Scarce visitor.
Montagu’s Harrier (C. pygargus) Very rare passage migrant.
Two Records:
A juvenile 8th August 1989.
Male, 22nd April 1998.
Hen Harrier (C. cyaneus) Very rare winter visitor.
Marsh Harrier (C. aeruginosus) Scarce passage migrant.
Sparrowhawk (A. gentiles) Resident.
Buzzard (B. buteo). Resident.
Osprey (P. haliaetus) Scarce passage migrant.
Kestrel (F.tinnunculus). Resident.
Hobby (F. subbuteo) Summer visitor.
Peregrine (F. peregrinus) Occasional visitor.
Merlin (F. columbarius) Scarce winter visitor.
Red-legged Partridge (A. rufa) Resident.
Grey Partridge (P. perdix) Scarce resident.
Pheasant (P. colchicus) Resident.
Water Rail (R. aquaticus) Uncommon resident.
Moorhen (G. chloropus) Resident.
Coot (F. atra) Resident.
Common Crane (G. grus). Very rare migrant.
Two records:
1 in flight on 21st, 23rd and 29th January 1994.
1 flew low over F.2. and headed off to the south at 13.25 on 15th May 2006.
Oystercatcher (H. ostralegus) Occasional visitor
Avocet (R. avosetta) Very scarce vistor.
Ringed Plover (C. hiaticula) Passage migrant.
Little Ringed Plover (C. dubus) Summer visitor.
Kentish Plover (C. alexandrinus) Rare vagrant.
One record:
15th May 1970.
Golden Plover (P. apricaria) Passage migrant & winter visitor.
Grey Plover (P. squatarola) Scarce passage migrant.
Lapwing (V. vanellus) Passage migrant & winter visitor.
Turnstone (A. interpres) Scarce passage migrant.
Sanderling (C. alba) Scarce passage migrant.
Knot (C. canutus) Scarce passage migrant.
Culew Sandpiper (C. ferruginea) Scare passage migrant.
Dunlin (C. alpina) Regular passage migrant.
Purple Sandpiper (C. maritime) Scarce passage migrant.
Little Stint (C. minuta) Regular passage migrant.
Temminck’s Stint (C. temminckii) Rare passage migrant.
Pectoral Sandpiper (C. melanotos) Rare vagrant.
Five records:
1, 1st-2nd September 1973.
1, 10th-14th May 1974.
1, 4th-7th September 1974.
1, 19th-24th April 1985.
1, 9th September 2003.
Ruff (P. pugnax) Regular passage migrant.
Curlew (N. arquata) Regular passage migrant.
Whimbrel (N. phaeopus) Regular passage migrant.
Black-tailed Godwit (L. limosa) Regular passage migrant.
Bar-tailed Godwit (L. lapponica) Scarce passage migrant.
Redshank (T. tetanus) Resident & passage migrant.
Spotted Redshank (T. erythropus) Scarce passage migrant.
Greenshank (T. nebularia) Regular passage migrant.
Wood Sandpiper (T. glareola) Scarce passage migrant.
MARSH SANDPIPER (T. stagnatalis) One record: A juvenile on the causeway for half an hour before moving to flooded fields alongside the Thames, 5th August 2007.
Common Sandpiper (A. hypoleucos) Regular passage migrant.
Green Sandpiper (T. ochropus) Scarce passage migrant.
SPOTTED SANDPIPER (A. macularia) Very Rare vagrant.
Two Records:
Adult, 1st May 1989.
Adult, 3rd –4th July 1990.
Snipe (G. gallinago) Resident & winter visitor.
Jack Snipe (L. minimus) Very scarce winter visitor.
Almost certainly winters regularly on Pinkhill & Shrike Meadow but elusive.
Woodcock (S. rusticola) Very scarce winter visitor.
Grey Phalarope (P. fulicarius) Rare autumn migrant.
Six birds between 1965-1989.
1, 1st-5th October 1991.
1, 12th-16th September 1992.
1, 30th October 2004.
Red-necked Phalarope (P. lobatus) Very rare migrant.
Two records:
1, 17th May 1974.
1, 8th June 1974.
Pomarine Skua (S. pomarinus) Very rare migrant.
One record:
Juvenile on 13th October 1988, identified from photographs after the event.
Arctic Skua (P. parasiticus) Rare migrant.
Long-tailed Skua (S. longicaudus) Very rare migrant.
Three records:
Juvenile, 30th August 1980, picked up exhausted and later released on the Welsh coast.
Juvenile on 10th August 1989.
Adult summer, 31st August-6th September 1995.
Great Skua (S. skua) Rare migrant.
Mediterranean Gull (L. melanocephalus) Scarce migrant & winter visitor.
Little Gull (L. minutes) Scarce migrant and occasional winter visitor.
Black-headed Gull (L. ridibundus) Common winter visitor and partial resident.
Common Gull (L. canus) Fairly common winter visitor and spring migrant.
Kittiwake (R tricdactyla) Scarce winter visitor and migrant.
Ring-billed Gull (L. delawarensis) Rare vagrant.
One record:
Third-winter in the gull roost on 3rd December 1999.
FRANKLIN'S GULL (L.pipixcan) Very rare Vagrant.
Two records:
Moulting adult in the roost on 17th-28th August 2002.
An adult roosted on F.2. on 10th & 11th November 2007.
BONAPARTE'S GULL (L. Philadelphia) Very rare vagrant.
Three records:
First summer, 17th-18th May 2000.
First summer, 17th-20th April 2006. This bird appeared a month earlier than the 2000 individual, but followed the same habits exactly. It was associated with a strong passage of first year Black-headed Gulls and divided it's time between the Pinkhill Reserve and the reservoirs.
First summer 1st & 3rd-9th May 2007.
Sabine’s Gull (L. sabini) Rare vagrant.
Four records:
Juvenile in the roost on 3rd October 2000.
Adult summer, 16th-20th August 2001.
Adult summer, 29th-30th August2005.
Juvenile, 1 glimpsed in the roost on 28 September 2007 was still present from dawn to 11.30 the following morning.
Herring Gull (L. a. argenteus/agrentatus) Common winter visitor and partial resident (argenteus).
Yellow-legged Gull (L. c. michahellis) Increasing late summer and winter visitor.
Caspian Gull (L. c. cachinnans) Scarce winter visitor.
Glaucous Gull (L. hyperboreus) Very scarce winter visitor.
Iceland Gull (L. glaucoides) Very scarce winter visitor.
Kumlien’s Gull (L.g. kumlieni) Rare vagrant.
Two records probably relating to same individual:
Adult in the roost on 19th, 22nd & 23rd March 2005.
Adult in roost on 9th March 2006. Almost certainly the 2005 bird returning.
Great Black-backed Gull (L. marinus) Winter visitor.
Lesser-black-backed Gull (L. fuscus) Winter visitor.
Baltic Gull (L. fuscus fuscus) One record: An adult in the roost on 21st October 2006. This bird exhibited the full suite of features of this nominate form of Lesser Black-backed Gull.
GULL-BILLED TERN (C. nilotica) Very rare vagrant.
One record:
An adult during the evening of 27th July 1999.
Sandwich Tern (S. sandvicensis) Scarce passage migrant.
Common Tern (S. hirundo) Common summer visitor.
Arctic Tern (S. paradisea) Scarce passage migrant in fluctuating numbers.
Roseate Tern (S dougallii) Very rare migrant.
Four records of five birds:
1,12th May 1970.
2,1st September 1994.
1,27th-28th June 1997.
1,9th May 2004.
Little Tern (S. albifrons) Scarce passage migrant.
Black Tern (C. niger) Passage migrant.
White-winged Black Tern (C. leucopterus) Rare vagrant.
Eight records:
Adult, 2nd May 1971.
Juvenile, 18th October 1976.
Juvenile 15th September 1986.
Juvenile, 24-28th August 1996.
Adult, 6th May 1999.
Juvenile, 31st July 1999.
Juvenile, 6th-8th August 1999.
Juvenile, 26th August 2006.
Second summer, 20th July 2007.
Little Auk (A. alle) Very rare visitor.
One record:
1,23rd November 1988
Stock Dove (C. livia) Uncommon resident.
Woodpigeon (C. palumbus) Common resident.
Collared Dove (S. decaocto) Common resident.
Turtle Dove (S. turtur) Very scare summer visitor.
Cuckoo (C. canorus) Fairly common summer visitor.
Ring-necked Parakeet (P. krameri) Very scarce visitor.
Barn Owl (T. alba) Scarce resident.
Long-eared Owl (A.otus) Very rare winter visitor. One record: 23rd March 2000.
Short-eared Owl (A. flammeus) Scarce passage migrant & winter visitor.
Tawny Owl (S. aluco) Resident.
Little Owl (A. noctua) Resident.
Swift (A. apus) Common summer visitor.
Kingfisher (A. atthis) Fairly common resident.
Hoopoe ((U. epops) Very scarce migrant. No recent records.
Wryneck (J. torquilla) Very scarce passage migrant.
Green Woodpecker (P. virdis) Fairly common resident.
Great Spotted Woodpecker (D. major) Fairly common resident.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (D. minor) Uncommon resident.
Skylark (A. arvensis) Resident & winter visitor.
Woodlark (L. arborea). Very scarce visitor.
One known record:
A single bird, January 1972.
Shorelark (E. alpestris).
One record:
A singe bird seen by just two observers on the causeway at c09.30 on 14th October 2007. It was watched for just 50 seconds before flying off east.
Sand Martin (R. riparia) Common summer visitor.
Red-rumped Swallow (H. daurica) Rare vagrant.
One record:
8th-12th May 1997.
Swallow (H. rustica) Common summer visitor.
House Martin (D. urbica) Common summer visitor.
Rock Pipit (A. petrosus) Scarce passage migrant.
Water Pipit (A. spinoletta) Scarce passage migrant.
AMERICAN BUFF-BELLIED PIPIT (A.rubescens). One was present on the causeway from 6th to 9th October 2007 but was only identified on the evening of 8th.
Tree Pipit (A. trivialis) Very scarce passage migrant.
Meadow Pipit (A. pratensis) Passage migrant & winter visitor.
Pied Wagtail (M. alba) Common resident & winter visitor.
White Wagtail (M. a. alba) Fairly common passage migrant.
Grey Wagtail (M. cinerea) Resident.
Yellow Wagtail (M. flava) Common passge migrant.
Blue-headed Wagtail (M .f. flava) Scarce passage migrant.
Wren (T. troglodytes) Common resident.
Dunnock (P. modularis) Common resident.
Robin ( E. rubecula) Common Resident.
Nightingale (L. luscinia) Very scarce summer visitor.
Redstart (P. phoenicurus) Scarce passage migrant.
Black Redstart (P. ochruros) Scare passage & winter visitor.
Whinchat (S. rubetra) Scarce passage migrant.
Stonechat (S. torquata) Scarce passage migrant & winter visitor.
Northern Wheatear (O. oenanthe) Passage migrant.
Blackbird (T. merula) Common Resident.
Ring Ouzel (T. torquatus) Very scarce migrant.
Fieldfare (T. pilaris) Common winter visitor.
Redwing (T. iliacus) Common winter visitor.
Song Thrush (T. philomelos) Uncommon resident.
Mistle Thrush (T. viscivorus) Uncommon resident.
Grasshopper Warbler (L. naevia) Scarce passage migrant.
Cetti’s Warbler (C. cetti) Scarce resident.
Sedge Warbler (A. schoenobaenus) Fairly common summer visitor.
Reed Warbler (A. scirpaceus) Uncommon summer visitor.
Garden Warbler (S. borin) Uncommon summer visitor.
Lesser Whitethroat (S. curruca) Fairly common summer visitor.
Whitethroat (S. communis) Common summer visitor.
Blackcap (S. atricapilla) Common summer visitor.
Wood Warbler (P. sibilatrix) Very scarce passage migrant.
Willow Warbler (P. trochilus) Passage migrant/summer visitor.
Chiffchaff (P. collybita) Passage migrant/summer visitor.
Goldcrest (R. regulus) Resident & winter visitor.
Pied Flycatcher (F. hypoleuca) Very scarce passage migrant.
Spotted Flycatcher (M. striata) Scarce summer visitor.
Marsh Tit (P. palustris) Scarce Resident.
Willow Tit (P. montanus) Very scarce resident.
Blue Tit (P. caeruleus) Common resident.
Great Tit (P. major) Common resident.
Coal Tit (P. ater) Scarce resident.
Bearded Tit (P. biarmicus) Very rare visitor. Not recorded in last thirty years.
2 birds arrived at Pinkhill on 1st November 2007. One promptly departed but the other, a female, stayed until early January 2008 at which time severe flooding prompted it's departure.
Long-tailed Tit (A. caudatus) Fairly common resident.
Nuthatch (S. europaea) Uncommon resident.
Treecreeper (C. brachydactyla) Uncommon resident.
Great Grey Shrike (L. excubitor) Very scarce passage migrant & winter visitor.
Starling (S. vulgaris) Common resident.
Jay (G, glandarius) Uncommon resident.
Magpie (P. pica) Common resident.
Jackdaw (C. monedula) Common resident.
Raven (C. corax) Very occasional visitor.
Carrion Crow (C. corone) Common resident.
Rook (C. frugilegus) Common resident.
Tree Sparrow (P. montanus) Formely resident but not recorded for at least two years.
House Sparrow (p. domesticus) Uncommon resident.
Chaffinch (F. coelebs) Common resident.
Brambling (F. montifringilla) Scarce winter visitor.
Siskin (C. spinus) Scarce usually autumn/winter visitor.
Greenfinch (C. chloris) Common resident.
Goldfinch (C. carduelis) Common Resident.
Bullfinch (P. pyrrhula) Scarce resident.
Hawfinch (C. coccothraustes) Very rare visitor.
Two records:
1, 5th March 1989.
2, Seen briefly in poplars along the west bank of F2 early morning 5th Novemebr 2005. Widespread records of Hawfinches throughout the UK around this time.
Lesser Redpoll (C.f. cabaret) Scarce usually autumn/winter visitor.
Twite (C. flavirostris) Very scarce usually autumn visitor.
Linnet (C. cannabina) Fairly common resident.
Corn Bunting ( M. calandra) Very scarce resident.
Cirl Bunting (E. cirlus) Very sarce visitor. Not recorded in the last thirty years
Yellowhammer (E. citrinella) Fairly common resident & winter visitor.
Reed Bunting (E. schoeniclus) Common resident & spring migrant.
Snow Bunting (p. nivalis) Scarce usually late autumn/winter visitor.
FERALS AND ESCAPES
Greylag Goose
Lesser White-fronted Goose
Barnacle Goose
Ruddy Shelduck
Bar-headed Goose
Snow Goose
Black Swan
Wood Duck
Bahama Pintail
Cape Teal
Chiloe Wigeon
Cinnamon Teal
Peruvian Ruddy Duck
Speckled Teal
White-cheeked Pintail
Silver Gull
Budgerigar
Peacock
I would like to thank the following for their comments & help in compiling this list:
Jon Uren
Steve Roby
Phil Barnett
Dave John
Steve Young
Carl Salmon
Bob Burgess
John Phillips
Dr.Euan Dunn MBE
Justin Taylor
Stuart Thompson
Ian Lewington
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