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Birds

What birds can we find in Tisbury and surrounding areas?

Photo: Lapwing (Izzy Fry), text by Andrew Graham.
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Birds of the Tisbury area
Species
Status
Notes

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Y

​Barn Owl
​Black Redstart
Blackbird
Blackcap
Black-headed Gull
Blue Tit
Brambling
​Bullfinch
Buzzard

Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Coot
Cormorant
Corn Bunting
Crossbill
Cuckoo

Dipper
Dunnock

Ferruginous Duck
Fieldfare
Firecrest

Garden Warbler
Goldcrest
Golden Plover
​Goldfinch
Goosander
Goshawk
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Crested Grebe
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Great White Egret
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Grey Partridge
Grey Wagtail
Greylag Goose

Hawfinch
Herring Gull
Hobby
House Martin
House Sparrow

Jackdaw
Jay

Kestrel
Kingfisher

Lapwing
Lesser Redpoll
Lesser Whitethroat
Linnet
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Owl
Long-tailed Tit

Magpie
Mallard
Mandarin
​Marsh Tit
Meadow Pipit
Merlin
Mistle Thrush
Moorhen
Mute Swan

Nightjar
Nuthatch

Osprey

Peregrine
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Pochard

Raven
Red Kite
Red-legged Partridge
Redstart
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Reed Warbler
Robin
Rook

Sand Martin
Sedge Warbler
Short-eared Owl
Shoveler
Siskin
Skylark
Snipe
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Spotted Flycatcher
Starling
Stock Dove
Stonechat
Swallow
Swift

Tawny Owl
Teal
Tree Pipit
Treecreeper
Tufted Duck

Water Rail
Wheatear
Whinchat
White-tailed Eagle
Whitethroat
Willow Warbler
Woodcock
Woodpigeon
Wren

Yellowhammer
BRE
​MIG
BRE
BRE
FLY
BRE
WIN
​BRE
BRE

ALL
BRE
BRE
BRE
BRE
BRE
BRE
ALL
BRE
ALL
SUM

ALL
BRE

VAG
WIN
ALL

SUM
BRE
​WIN
BRE
WIN
ALL
FLY

​WIN
BRE

BRE
ALL
ALL
BRE
BRE
ALL
BRE
ALL

VAG
FLY
SUM
BRE
BRE

BRE
BRE

ALL
ALL

ALL
WIN
MIG
BRE
ALL
BRE
ALL
BRE

BRE
BRE
BRE
BRE
MIG
WIN
BRE
BRE
BRE

ALL
BRE

MIG

WIN
BRE
BRE
WIN

BRE
BRE
BRE

SUM
WIN
WIN
SUM
BRE
BRE

SUM
SUM
WIN
WIN
ALL
BRE
VAG
BRE
BRE
SUM
BRE
BRE
WIN
SUM
SUM

BRE
WIN
ALL
BRE
BRE

BRE
MIG
MIG
VAG
BRE
SUM
ALL
BRE
BRE

BRE
Regularly seen
Rare
Common
Frequent
Frequent
Common
Numerous in a "Brambling winter"
Common
Common

Common
Occasional
Common
Frequent
Common
Common
Frequent on water bodies
Frequent
Frequent
Groveley Wood and Great Ridge Wood?
Infrequent

Possibly on the Nadder?
Common

Rare
Common
Oysters Copse and other local woods

Infrequent
Frequent
Small flocks most years on open fields
Common
Fonthill and Wardour lakes
Great Ridge and Groveley Woods?
Infrequent

​Fonthill and Wardour lakes
Frequent

​Common
Fonthill lake
Infrequent
Frequent
Frequent
Rare
Infrequent. Nadder, Fonthill & Oddford brooks
Fonthill lake

When an irruption occurs
Frequent
Infrequent
Frequent
Common

Common
Frequent

Frequent
Fonthill lake

Infrequent
Infrequent
Infrequent
Common
Fonthill lake
Fonthill and Wardour lakes and elsewhere
Scarce
Frequent

Common
Common
Fonthill and Wardour lakes. Oddbrook valley
Infrequent
Frequent, also overwinters
Likely on hilltops and ridges but scarce
Frequent 
Water bodies
Fonthill lake and other water bodies

Possibly in Great Ridge Wood?
Frequent
 
Rare

On ridges. Possible local breeding - quarry?
Common
Frequent 
Rare

Frequent 
Becoming more frequent every year
Common

Rare. Great Ridge Wood?
Frequent
Infrequent
Occasional
Common
Common

Over Fonthill lake on passage
Fonthill lake
Likely on hilltops and ridges
Wardour lakes very occasional
Frequent throughout year probably breeding
Frequent
Wet fields, possibly breeding?
Frequent
Frequent
Rare
Common
Frequent
Infrequent
Common
Frequent

Frequent
Occasional
Rare Great Ridge Wood?
Frequent
Frequent

Occasional at water bodies?
Occasional
Occasional
Wanderers from IoW reintroduction
Infrequent
Infrequent, mainly heard on passage
In woodlands
Common
Common

Frequent
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