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The 2022 Lincolnshire Bird Report
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The Lincolnshire Bird Report 2022
The publication of the Bird Report involves a huge amount of work, with many individuals involved in its publication and thanks are due to the observers and organizations who submit and share records to LBC and our County Recorder Phil Hyde who oversees our records process and the team that processes them into our database. He also solicits, checks, and edits much of the other material in the report. The Lincolnshire Bird Records Committee (LBRC) chaired by Nige Lound vets our records, and Roy Harvey provides support as secretary. Philip Espin collates our records for our annual report to the Rare Breeding Birds Panel and that information is replicated in relevant species accounts in this report. He also prepares the analysis of BBS data in species accounts and the Trends of our red data species of conservation concern on the inside back cover.
We hope you like the front cover, a juvenile Cuckoo by John Clarkson taken at Rimac on 26th July 2022.
LBC Report 2022 - Data collection
Our database is now under the stewardship of Charlie Barnes at GLNP. We have made progress towards producing high-quality species data packages largely thanks to the technical skill of Jon Cooper. Data came from the following sources in 2022.
|
Dataset |
n |
|
BTO Birdtrack data |
248440 |
|
eBird data |
119701 |
|
LBC data |
23270 |
|
BTO WeBS data |
14431 |
|
RSPB data |
2810 |
|
LBRC BBRC data |
127 |
|
Total |
408779 |
If you DON’T submit records to the LBC, we encourage you to start using BTO BirdTrack….
An incredible number of people are involved with the report…
Ringing Report 2022 - We are happy to include a full ringing report once again this year thanks to Professor Carl Soulsbury with what we hope you will find is a refreshing approach to the county ringing data.
Contributing Authors 2022 - The LBC would like to thank all of the authors who volunteered their time to complete species write-ups or articles for the 2022 report. Species accounts came from Andrew Chick (7), Phil Espin (76), Vin Fleming (21) and Phil Hyde (210)
Photographers – the LBC is very grateful to the MANY photographers for supplying images for the 2022 report. All images included in the report have been obtained in Lincolnshire during 2022 and many are referred to in the text. All images are labelled with the photographer’s name.
Records and contributions - The Lincolnshire Bird Report is an annual publication of records, articles and photographs relating to all aspects of Lincolnshire ornithology. We are very keen to hear from anyone who is interested in volunteering to help produce future bird reports, please contact chairman@lincsbirdclub.co.uk.
Submissions of Records - All observers are encouraged to submit records on a regular, at least monthly, basis as this helps considerably with managing the workload and speeding up production of the annual report. If it isn’t possible to submit records until the end of the year, the deadline is by the end of February of the following year. Late records cause serious problems in drafting the systematic list and may be omitted. The names of all contributors will be published unless individuals ask us to omit their names. There are several ways of submitting records to LBC, and below we list some of the best. Please remember that, as a small, volunteer-run organisation, we are unable to monitor and extract records from the many personal blogs and similar online sources that now exist. Your records are valuable, so please make sure that they are sent somewhere secure and accessible.
BirdTrack and eBird: Many birders are now using BirdTrack (www.bto.org/birdtrack) or eBird (ebird.org/home) to maintain their personal records online and these make up the bulk of records we receive (60% and 30%, respectively). All such records (barring confidential ones) for Lincolnshire are passed to us by BTO and eBird and are published in this report, subject to our usual checking procedures. LBC supports these sites and a single submission to either will suffice; there is no need for you to send duplicate records direct to LBC. Please ensure your BirdTrack and eBird sites have a clear geographic place name in them and an accurate OS grid reference or we cannot use the data. Site names like “Home”, “Patch” or “A52” are unusable.
National Rarities - Nationally rare birds are indicated as such by the identifier BBRC (British Birds Rarities Committee) after the species name in the systematic list in this report. Consideration of records of these is by the BBRC and submission of details should be made direct to BBRC at www.bbrc.org.uk and a copy sent to the county recorder at recorder_south@lincsbirdclub.co.uk.
Data Sources used in the 2022 Bird Report
LBC offers their thanks to the following individuals and organizations for supplying and letting us use their data in the 2022 bird report. Apologies to anyone we have missed off the list.
BTO BBS Data. James Heywood, the Organiser of the Breeding Birds Survey, provides the Lincolnshire-specific BBS data. The BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey is a partnership jointly funded by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), with fieldwork conducted by volunteers. It is important to note that owing to Covid restrictions impacting BBS early visits in mid-April to mid-May 2020, the BBS data is more open to interpretation and trends information has not been produced this year.
BTO BirdTrack Data. Data supplied by BirdTrack has been used in the production of the 2020 bird report. BirdTrack provides free online bird recording software for Britain and Ireland and is being developed in a partnership between the BTO, RSPB and Birdwatch Ireland. All Lincolnshire records are available for download by the LBC. Further details can be found at www.birdtrack.net. Where we have used annual BirdTrack reporting rate data for Lincolnshire, graphs have been down-loaded from the BTO website.
BTO Heronry Data. LBC is grateful to Barrie Wilkinson, our county organiser, for supplying data on breeding Grey Heron and Little Egret in Lincolnshire. This long running dataset is extremely important for the monitoring of herons in Lincolnshire, and we would encourage all LBC members to submit data to this survey.
LBC Forum: For LBC members, you can post sightings of what you have seen, where and when you saw them, on our forum (with an image if you have one). Go to the LBC website www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk log in and follow the links to the forum.
BTO WeBS Data. Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) data are used; kindly made available by the WeBS partnership, a joint scheme of the British Trust for Ornithology, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (the last on behalf of the statutory nature conservation bodies: Natural England, Natural Resources Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Northern Ireland) in association with The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Although WeBS data are presented within this report, in some cases the figures may not have been fully checked and validated. Therefore, for any detailed analyses of WeBS data, enquiries should be directed to the WeBS team at the British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU (webs@bto.org).
eBird. Data checked and supplied by Josh Hedley (Lincs eBird validator) has been used in the publication of the 2022 bird report. Further details on how to input your records to eBird can be found at www.ebird.org/. It is important that eBird users check their settings after recording species lists on the mobile app to ensure the site name and location is correctly entered.
Gibraltar Point Dataset. Kev Wilson for supplying data from Gibraltar Point NNR and Gibraltar Point Bird Observatory, and for answering queries about records.
Grimsby Areas Members Group. Bill Sterling for submitting data from the Grimsby Areas Members Group.
Kestrel, Barn Owl, and Little Owl Data. Alan Ball and Bob Sheppard for supplying data from their extensive ringing project in Lincolnshire.
LBC Database Team. Charlie Barnes of the GLNP has overseen the entry of all records into the database. All records that are submitted on the LBC Forum and via the online records system are collated by the club.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, including Dave Bromwich, Richard Doan Grahame Hopwood, and Barrie Wilkinson.
North Lincolnshire Marsh Harrier Monitoring. Graham Catley for access to his marsh harrier monitoring data. For more details contact Graham Catley at gpcatley@gmail.com or via his website at grahamcatley.com
Redshank Data. LBC are grateful to Wild Frontier Ecology, Natural England and the RSPB for information regarding the Redshank breeding surveys undertaken in 2022.
Ringing Data. The Online BTO Ringing Report, the Bowden and Ball Partnership, the Mid-Lincs Ringing Group, Gibraltar Point Bird Observatory, Wash Wader Group, and the Birkland Ringing Group for submitting their annual ringing reports.
RSPB. For supplying data from their reserves at Frampton Marsh, Freiston Shore, Read’s Island and Tetney Marsh.
Whisby Nature Park Dataset. Grahame Hopwood for supplying data from Whisby Nature Park.
A BIG Thank You to EVERYONE who submitted records for the 2022 report….
We’d like to thank all the 1,400 birders who provided us with records for this report. Especially the top ten record providers who between them accounted for 30% of the records received:
|
Rank |
Observers |
n |
|
1 |
Nige Lound |
19944 |
|
2 |
Richard Lorand |
18589 |
|
3 |
Andrew Sims |
12582 |
|
4 |
Andrew Dove |
11777 |
|
5 |
Josh Jones |
11313 |
|
6 |
Brian Hedley |
11295 |
|
7 |
Philip Espin |
9389 |
|
8 |
Paul Sullivan |
8907 |
|
9 |
Mr Richard Doan |
8457 |
|
10 |
Phil Hyde |
6927 |
Here is the data broken down in two different ways we hope you will find interesting. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
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First the sites getting best coverage based on the number of records provided from them. Records were received from 577 sites in total:
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Second, the number of visitors providing records from each site:
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