Watermead Park

May 21, 2001

1. Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
2. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
3. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
4. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea: several breeding pairs, and the young visible, some must have been already 4 weeks old
5. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
6. Greylag Goose Anser anser
7. Canada Goose Branta canadensis
8. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
9. Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
10. Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
11. Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
12. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
13. Common Coot Fulica atra
14. Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
15. Common Redshank Tringa totanus
16. Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
17. Common Tern Sterna hirundo
18. Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
19. Common Swift Apus apus
More than 150
20. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
More than 5
21. House Martin Delichon urbica
More than 16
22. Sky Lark Alauda arvensis singing Wanlip South GP
23. Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
24. Hedge Accentor Prunella modularis
25. European Robin Erithacus rubecula
26. Common Blackbird Turdus merula
27. Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
28. Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
29. Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
30. Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
31. Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis
32. Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca
33. Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
34. Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
35. Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
36. Blue Tit Parus caeruleus
37. Great Tit Parus major
38. Black-billed Magpie Pica pica
39. Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula
40. Carrion Crow Corvus corone
41. Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
42. House Sparrow Passer domesticus
43. Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
44. European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris
45. Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

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)