Victoria Park & GUC Leicester - Aylestone

March 10, 2001

Highlights: Coal tit and other small birds plundering cherry blossom in in Victoria Park

1. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea: Aylestone
2. Mute Swan Cygnus olor: Aylestone
3. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos: Aylestone
4. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus: Aylestone
5. Common Coot Fulica atra: Aylestone
6. Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus: Aylestone
7. Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus: Aylestone
8. Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus: Victoria Park
9. Green Woodpecker Picus viridis: Aylestone
10. European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur: Victoria Park
11. Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes: Victoria Park
12. Hedge Accentor Prunella modularis: Victoria Park
13. European Robin Erithacus rubecula: Victoria Park
14. Song Thrush Turdus philomelos: Victoria Park
15. Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus: Victoria Park
16. Goldcrest Regulus regulus: Victoria Park
17. Coal Tit Parus ater: Victoria Park
18. Blue Tit Parus caeruleus: Victoria Park
19. Great Tit Parus major: Victoria Park
20. Carrion Crow Corvus corone: Victoria Park
21. Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs: Victoria Park
22. European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris: Victoria Park
23. European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis: Victoria Park

Fer-Jan de Vries

Nomenclature follows Voous’s List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species (BOU 1977, revised edition). English names are as in BOU Checklist of Birds of Britain and Ireland (6th Edition, 1992)