Birds in Lincolnshire

Part 7. Status of the Birds of the Grantham Area

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Part 7 - Owls and Woodpeckers

Little Auk Alle alle

Vagrant, 2 records

1 "near Grantham" 9th November 1957

1 Kirkby Underwood 30th October 1983

Stock Pigeon Columba oenas

Common resident

Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus

Common resident

Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto

Common resident

European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur

Declining summer visitor

Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri

Vagrant from naturalised populations, 1 record

1 Rauceby Warren , 29th March 1988

Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus

Summer visitor

Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus

Vagrant, 1 record

1 Rauceby Warren 18th - 19th October 1987 (D & S Brooks et al. )

Barn Owl Tyto alba

Uncommon resident

Little Owl Athene noctua

Common naturalised resident

Tawny Owl Strix aluco

Common resident

Long-eared Owl Asio otus

Uncommon resident, at least two major winter roosts within recording area

Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus

Uncommon winter visitor

Short-eared Owl, Marston STW December 2001 (photo A. Chick)

European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus

Former breeder (last 1988), now irregular passage migrant

Common Swift Apus apus

Common summer visitor

Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis

Resident

Common Kingfisher, Ancaster GP, July 1997 (photo P. Lees)

European Bee-eater Merops apiaster

Vagrant, 1 record

1 shot Ingoldsby July 1879

Hoopoe Upupa epops

Rare passage migrant 7 records

1 Denton 9th April 1958

1 Rauceby 12th May 1965

1 Silk Willoughby 28th April 1983

2 Rauceby Warren 12th - 22nd June 1984

1 Grantham 24th April 1987

1 Twyford Wood 29th April - 1st May 1987

Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla

Rare passage migrant

1 Cranwell 8th September 1962

1 Temple Wood 1st September 1986

1 Ancaster September circa 1981

1 Caythorpe 19th April 2004

Green Woodpecker Picus viridis

Common resident

Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major

Common resident

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor

Uncommon resident

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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