Birds in Lincolnshire

Part 6. Status of the Birds of the Grantham Area

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Part 6 - Gulls and Terns

Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus

Occasional visitor at all seasons

Little Gull Larus minutus

Scarce passage migrant

Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus

Formerly regular breeder, now occasional (last 2001)

Mew Gull Larus canus

Common passage migrant and winter visitor

Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

Common passage migrant and winter visitor

Herring Gull Larus argentatus

Common passage migrant and winter visitor, L. a. michahellis irregular visitor at all seasons, L. a. cachinnans vagrant, 2 records:

1 Cotham 10th December 2004

1 Leadenham Tip 7th December 2004 (T. Lee)

Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides

Rare winter visitor, 4 records

1 Leadenham Tip 7th January 1994

1 Cotham 29th January 2003

1 Cotham 27th February - 19th March 2005

1 Leadenham Tip 4th April 2005

Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus

Scarce winter visitor, 5 records

1 Ancaster GP 28th November 1965

1 Leadenham Tip 2nd January 1998

1 Marston STW 14th November 1999

1 Cotham 3rd March 2005 - 21st March 2005

1 Fulbeck, 1st April 2005 , same Leadenham Tip 5th April

Iceland (left) and Glaucous Gulls, at Cotham/Bennington Fen, February 2005 (photo A. Lees)

Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus

Common passage migrant and winter visitor

Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

Vagrant, 2 records

1 Marston STW 26th March 1995

1 recently dead Marston STW "late" March 1996

Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis

Vagrant, 1 record

1 Marston STW 4th August 1961

Common Tern Sterna hirundo

Passage migrant, has prospected

Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

Scarce passage migrant, less than annual

Black Tern Chlidonias niger

Scarce passage migrant, almost annual, formerly more regular

Black Tern, Denton Reservoir, May 1998 (photo A. Lees)

White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus

Vagrant, 2 records

1 Marston STW 17th to 21st August 1957 ( D. West et al. )

1 adult Marston STW 3rd June 1959 ( C. Cave)

Birds of Grantham Part 1 - Divers to Herons
Birds of Grantham Part 2 - Swans, Geese and other Wildlfowl
Birds of Grantham Part 3 - Wildfowl cont...
Birds of Grantham Part 4 - Birds of Prey
Birds of Grantham Part 5 - Game Birds and Waders
Birds of Grantham Part 6 - Gulls and Terns
Birds of Grantham Part 7 - Owls and Woodpeckers
Birds of Grantham Part 8 - Larks, Pipits, Wagtails and Trushes
Birds of Grantham Part 9 - Warblers, Tits, Sparrows, Crows and Finches

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