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The Lincolnshire Bird Club Committee are pleased to announce the publication of a new county avifauna: Birds of Lincolnshire. Featuring a front cover painting by Nik Borrow commemorating the first Pallas’s Sandgrouse invasion at Saltfleetby in April 1863.

Birds of Lincolnshire is a full county avifauna A4 size book with 240 pages. It covers all 402 BOU category ABC bird species recorded in the county from 1500 up to 2019 and certain key records for 2020 and much more. The book is lavishly illustrated with photos of birds seen in Lincolnshire, county landscapes and aerial photographs of key nature reserves.

The authors writing and producing Birds of Lincolnshire the late Colin Casey, the former Database Manager for the Lincolnshire Bird Club, former County Recorder John Clarkson, Chair of LBC Philip Espin and current County Recorder Philip Hyde. All four are Lincolnshire born and bred and have been involved in the writing and production of the annual Lincolnshire Bird Report over the past decade. All have been members of LBC since it was founded in 1979.

The book contains sections covering the following:

• Introduction
• Details of how birds are recorded in the county with maps showing county coverage.
• A description of the bird habitats and natural regions of Lincolnshire with maps showing the extent of different habitat types.
• Details of past and present breeding birds of Lincolnshire and how they have changed over the last 50 years.
• An account of important sites in the county by region supported by tables of sites ranked by number of species and rare birds recorded and site grid references.
• A short history of the Lincolnshire Bird Club.
• A systematic list of all BOU accepted species in the county. The status of each species is described and all sightings listed for rare and scarcer species. Each species account is accompanied by local  photographs or drawings with distribution maps of sightings and graphs of abundance changes where appropriate. For regular occurring species an indication of the population size and changing status is provided.
• A systematic list of birds recorded in Lincolnshire and not yet accepted by BOU on to the full British list are covered.
• A list of species new to the Lincolnshire list since the last avifauna was published in 1989 and their published finders.
• An extensive gallery of bird images taken in the county.
• Details of Photographers, Acknowledgements, Supporters and References.
• A Lincolnshire checklist based on the complete BOU British List showing bird species on the Lincolnshire list with a preface discussing the British species not recorded in the county.

Birds of Lincolnshire cost £43 to the public including second class postage and packaging and costs £33 including second class postage and packaging for members.

Phil Espin, Chair Lincs Bird Club

Thanks to Richard Doan's for putting together the first DRAFT results for the Lincolnshire Big Bird Day held 1st January 2021.

A massive 143 species were recorded across Lincolnshire. Full details will appear in February's LBC eNewsletter.

The list below includes all species recorded, with comments on some of the scarcer species. While birds highlighted in RED were NOT recorded on the day.

You still have time to submit data, please send direct to Richard at rdoan@lincstrust.co.uk.

Forty years in the making and the The Atlas is now published.

The Lincolnshire Bird Atlas 1980 - 1999 An Historical Perspective shows the results of a tetrad based survey of the breeding birds of Lincolnshire carried out 30 to 40 years ago. 

It features one full page for each regular breeding species with a tetrad distribution map and notes on the status of each species in Lincolnshire up to 1999. 

Lincolnshire Bird Club members resurrected, organised and delivered the Atlas 13 years after the original project crashed.

How can you get your hands on a copy?  There are a number of ways as follows:

1.      Purchase a hardback copy

2.      Borrow it from your local library.

Purchasing a hardback copy

You can buy a copy on the lulu.com bookstore website from the following link bit.ly/3ahjutE at £30, though it may be possible to get a discount of 10 to 15% if special offer periods are being promoted. A charge for post and packaging will also be made.

Author and academic Tim Birkhead to speak at club’s 2020 AGM

TIM Birkhead has agreed to be the guest speaker at the LBC's 24th March 2020  annual meeting.

Until his recent retirement, Tim had been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at Sheffield University since 1976.

He has always combined his enthusiasm for research with a passion for undergraduate teaching.

He has taught courses on ecology, evolution, statistics, birds, behavioural ecology, animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science.

An authority on guillemots, specifically those that nest on Skomer Island,  his data on the species has yielded important insights on the impact of climate change, integrity of habitat, warmer oceans and food supplies.

Tim  is the author of numerous, award-winning books including The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

The club's annual meeting will be at 7.30pm on March 24 at The Golf Hotel in Woodhall Spa.

An update on his guillemot research project is at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/guillemotsskomer               

Photo: Tim Birkhead - with  ‘team members’

Author and academic Tim Birkhead to speak at club’s 2020 AGM

TIM Birkhead has agreed to be the guest speaker at the LBC's 24th March 2020  annual meeting.

Until his recent retirement, Tim had been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at Sheffield University since 1976.

He has always combined his enthusiasm for research with a passion for undergraduate teaching.

He has taught courses on ecology, evolution, statistics, birds, behavioural ecology, animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science.

An authority on guillemots, specifically those that nest on Skomer Island,  his data on the species has yielded important insights on the impact of climate change, integrity of habitat, warmer oceans and food supplies.

Tim  is the author of numerous, award-winning books including The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

The club's annual meeting will be at 7.30pm on March 24 at The Golf Hotel in Woodhall Spa.

An update on his guillemot research project is at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/guillemotsskomer               

Photo: Tim Birkhead - with  ‘team members’

LBC Rare Bird Whatsapp Group  LBC Members ONLY The main purpose of the  Lincs Bird Club Rare and Scarce WhatsApp Bird News  group is to alert people to rare and scarce birds as soon as possible. However, please remember that every post goes to everyone on the group and there’s a balance to be struck between disseminating useful information and minimising the number of alerts. Anyone who is on the group can post instant messages giving news of rare and scarce birds.The group is administered by local birders of the Lincs Bird Club's  and is therefore not an official service.  It is open to all members who wish to join and have installed the WhatsApp app on their Smartphone.  The service is free and the WhatsApp application is a free download. Guidelines for Using the Lincs Bird News WhatsApp Group: Please post details of rare and scarce species seen in Lincolnshire ONLY. Please do post images of unidentified birds to request help as soon as possible. Provide updates on scarce birds (at a reasonable frequency related to the rarity of the species and how long it’s been present). Provide reports of the  first sightings of returning migrants.  Please restrict reports to birds within the Lincs Recording Area. Please do not use this service for chat, e.g. ‘well done’, ‘thumbs up’, etc. The  Lincs Birding Forum , or personal messages, are the appropriate means to conduct these exchanges. If you want to send a personal message to someone who is using the service, please use their individual mobile number and not the group WhatsApp service.  Please email  chairman@lincsbirdclub.co.uk and provide your mobile number. He will make some checks if needed, then add you. After you have been added you may get a text asking you to confirm your ID. We need to do that so we can be sure who is in the group. Anyone joining does so on the basis that they consent to their mobile phone number potentially being shared with anyone else in the group.When you first join please click on the LBC header icon and read the rules. These begin "A group dedicated to informing LBC members of rare birds in the county. Clicking on "see more" in blue text will reveal the full rules. Please consider them when posting and be aware that  anyone violating the rules, particularly if abuse is involved, risks being permanently blocked, Don't be shy about putting suspected rarities on, giving others a chance to see the bird and voice an opinion is usually a good idea.  We hope this will be a helpful service to members and please join if you are interested.

Author and academic Tim Birkhead to speak at club’s 2020 AGM

TIM Birkhead has agreed to be the guest speaker at the LBC's 24th March 2020  annual meeting.

Until his recent retirement, Tim had been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at Sheffield University since 1976.

He has always combined his enthusiasm for research with a passion for undergraduate teaching.

He has taught courses on ecology, evolution, statistics, birds, behavioural ecology, animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science.

An authority on guillemots, specifically those that nest on Skomer Island,  his data on the species has yielded important insights on the impact of climate change, integrity of habitat, warmer oceans and food supplies.

Tim  is the author of numerous, award-winning books including The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

The club's annual meeting will be at 7.30pm on March 24 at The Golf Hotel in Woodhall Spa.

An update on his guillemot research project is at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/guillemotsskomer               

Author and academic Tim Birkhead to speak at club’s 2020 AGM

TIM Birkhead has agreed to be the guest speaker at the LBC's 24th March 2020  annual meeting.

Until his recent retirement, Tim had been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at Sheffield University since 1976

He has always combined his enthusiasm for research with a passion for undergraduate teaching.

He has taught courses on ecology, evolution, statistics, birds, behavioural ecology, animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science.

An authority on guillemots, specifically those that nest on Skomer Island,  his data on the species has yielded important insights on the impact of climate change, integrity of habitat, warmer oceans and food supplies.

Tim  is the author of numerous, award-winning books including The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

The club's annual meeting will be at 7.30pm on March 24 at The Golf Hotel in Woodhall Spa.

An update on his guillemot research project is at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/guillemotsskomer      

The LBC AGM Notice was emailed to all LBC Members on March 6th 2019.

If you didn't get a copy of the LBC AGM notice, please email info@lincsbirdclub.co.uk.

Our speaker at the AGM on Tuesday April 9th 2019 at 7.30pm will be local Lincs birder Alex Lees, who is now a respected academic ecologist. Alex Lees is a lecturer in biodiversity at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in the Peak District. Twitter: @Alexander_Lees

He will be talking about Rewilding and has some interesting ideas to share about opportunities in Lincs.

We are changing the venue this year to The Golf Hotel, Woodhall Spa and I look forward to seeing you all there. 

The Golf Hotel

The Broadway
Woodhall Spa
Nr. Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN10 6SG