5 January 2010

If you have submitted records in the last few weeks (late December / early January) and have not had an acknowledgement, please re-submit your records. The Recorders have had a problem with the lycos.com email system and are not getting all the email submissions. Please send your records again to Julia Harris

If you have not yet submitted your 2009 records, PLEASE DON’T DELAY – GET YOUR RECORDS IN PROMPTLY so that they can be entered into the database. Closing date is 31 January 2010.

Recording forms for 2009

Rarity recording forms

The recording forms for species classified as Devon or National rarities are now available as dowloadable Word files here.

Standard recording form updated for 2009

The downloadable standard DBWPS recording form has been slightly revised for 2009, with new columns added to provide 'start' and 'finish' times in the case of timed counts from coastal headlands etc. Use of these columns will help the Bird Recorder and Data Manager to judge whether recording forms submitted by different observers for the same location on the same date refer to differing or overlapping time periods. The updated form can be downloaded here.

If you need any help with submitting records, please email the Devon Birds Data Manager, Julia Harris.

Deadline for submitting 2009 records…

All Devon birders are reminded that 31 January 2010 is the deadline for sending in your 2009 records to Julia. Please help her to get the database up together – so that work on the 2009 Devon Bird Report can commence – by sending in any remaining records for 2009 as promptly as possible.

Thank you.

Devon 'A' and 'B' species

These are listed below. 'A' species records need to be accompanied by a full description and, if possible, photographs. For a 'B' species record, only brief notes would be needed initially, but a full description could subsequently be requested.

The species on the Devon County List – see page 220 of the 2009 Devon Bird Report – whose names are followed by a @ symbol instead of a Devon A-E code are the national (BBRC) rarities. For these, full descriptions, ideally with photographs and in some cases sound recordings, are definitely needed.

Devon ‘A’ species – all records required, with full supporting notes (preferably on a Devon Rarity Form).

Bean Goose
Greenland W-fronted Goose flavirostris
Black Brant nigricans
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Ferruginous Duck
Surf Scoter
White-billed Diver
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Leach’s Petrel
Continental Cormorant sinensis
Night-heron
Great White Egret
Purple Heron
White Stork
Honey-buzzard
Black Kite
White-tailed Eagle
Montagu’s Harrier
Goshawk
Rough-legged Buzzard
Red-footed Falcon
Spotted Crake
Corncrake
Crane
Stone-curlew
Kentish Plover
American Golden Plover
Temminck’s Stint
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Long-tailed Skua
Sabine’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Scandinavian Herring Gull argentatus
Caspian Gull
White-winged Black Tern
Roseate Tern (outside Apr-Aug)
Black Guillemot
Alpine Swift
Bee-eater
Short-toed Lark
Shore Lark
Red-rumped Swallow
Richard’s Pipit
Tawny Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Scandinavian Rock Pipit littoralis
Ashy-headed Wagtail cinereocapilla
Grey-headed Wagtail thunbergii
Black-bellied Dipper Cinclus
Red-spotted Bluethroat svecica
Aquatic Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Melodious Warbler
Barred Warbler
Siberian Lesser Whitethroat halimodendri
SubalpineWarbler
Greenish Warbler
Pallas’s Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler (outside Sep-Oct)
Radde’s Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Scandinavian Chiffchaff abietinus
Siberian Chiffchaff tristis
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Crested Tit
Continental Coal Tit ater
Golden Oriole
Woodchat Shrike
Chough
Hooded Crow
Rose-coloured Starling
Serin
Twite
Common Redpoll
Parrot Crossbill
Common Rosefinch
Lapland Bunting (mainland)
Ortolan Bunting
Rustic Bunting
Little Bunting
Corn Bunting

Devon ‘B’ species – all records required, with brief supporting notes.

Bewick’s Swan
Whooper Swan
Pink-footed Goose
European W-fronted Goose albifrons
Garganey
Scaup
Velvet Scoter
Smew
Quail
Black-throated Diver
Red-necked Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Sooty Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
Bittern
Cattle Egret
Spoonbill
Red Kite
Marsh Harrier
Osprey
Little Ringed Plover
Dotterel
Wood Sandpiper
Grey Phalarope
Pomarine Skua
Mediterranean Gull
Scand. L B-b Gull intermedius
Yellow-legged Gull
Iceland Gull glaucoides
Glaucous Gull
Roseate Tern (Apr-Aug)
Arctic Tern
Little Auk
Long-eared Owl
Hoopoe
Wryneck
Woodlark
Water Pipit
Blue-headed Wagtail flava
White Wagtail alba
Greenland Wheatear leucorhoa
Waxwing
Nightingale
‘Grey Chiffchaff,’ unidentified abietinus/tristis
Yellow-browed Warbler (Sep–Oct)
Bearded Tit
Willow Tit
Red-backed Shrike
Great Grey Shrike
Tree Sparrow
Hawfinch
Lapland Bunting (Lundy)
Snow Bunting