Stanford Reservoir. Leicestershire/ Northamptonshire. (Grid Ref: SP68) BIRDS - Annual Listings from with Cumulative Totals from 193 Full List of Birds recorded at the Reservoir following its construction in 1928. Species in {Curly Brackets} are likely to be feral birds. Species in (plain brackets) are those that have been caught locally and released at the Reservoir. Red-throated Diver Black-throated Diver Great Northern Diver Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Red-necked Grebe Slavonian Grebe Black-necked Grebe (Manx Shearwater) Leach's Storm Petrel Northern Gannet Cormorant Shag Bittern Little Egret Great White Egret Grey Heron Purple Heron White Stork Common crane Spoonbill Mute Swan Bewick's Swan Whooper Swan {Bean Goose Sp.} Pink-footed Goose White-fronted Goose {Greylag Goose} Canada Goose {Barnacle Goose} Brent Goose Egyptian Goose Shelduck Mandarin Duck Wigeon Gadwall Teal Green-winged Teal Mallard Pintail Garganey Shoveler Red-crested Pochard Pochard Ring-necked Duck Ferruginous Duck Tufted Duck Scaup Common Eider Long-tailed Duck Common Scoter Velvet Scoter. Goldeneye Smew Red-breasted Merganser Goosander Ruddy Duck
Honey-Buzzard Red Kite Marsh Harrier Hen Harrier Goshawk Sparrowhawk Buzzard Rough-legged Buzzard sprey Kestrel Merlin Hobby Peregrine Falcon Red-legged Partridge Grey Partridge Quail Common Pheasant Water Rail Spotted Crake Corncrake Moorhen Common Coot ystercatcher Avocet Little Ringed Plover Ringed Plover Golden Plover Grey Plover Lapwing Red Knot Sanderling Little Stint Temminck's Stint Pectoral Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Ruff Jack Snipe Common Snipe Woodcock Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Whimbrel Curlew Spotted Redshank Redshank Greenshank Lesser Yellowlegs Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Black Winged Stilt Turnstone Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Grey Phalarope Arctic Skua Great Skua Mediterranean Gull Franklin's Gull Little Gull Black-headed Gull Yellow-legged Gull Ring-billed Gull Common Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Gull
Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Kittiwake Caspian Tern Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Little Tern Whiskered Tern Black Tern White-winged Black Tern Common Guillimot Little Auk Stock Dove Woodpigeon Collared Dove Turtle Dove Cuckoo Ring-necked Parakeet Barn wl Little wl Tawny wl Long-eared wl Short-eared wl Nightjar Alpine Swift Swift Kingfisher Hoopoe (one seen at South Kilworth in ) Wryneck Green Woodpecker Greater Spotted Woodpecker Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Wood Lark Sky Lark Sand Martin Swallow House Martin Tree Pipit Meadow Pipit Water Pipit Rock Pipit Yellow Wagtail Grey Wagtail Pied [White] Wagtail Waxwing Dipper Wren Dunnock Robin Nightingale Black Redstart Redstart Whinchat Stonechat Wheatear Ring uzel Blackbird Fieldfare Song Thrush Redwing Mistle Thrush Cetti's Warbler Grasshopper Warbler Sedge Warbler Marsh Warbler Reed Warbler Great Reed Warbler
Icterine Warbler Lesser Whitethroat Common Whitethroat Garden Warbler Blackcap Yellow-browed Warbler Wood Warbler Common Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Dusky Warbler Goldcrest Firecrest Spotted Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher Bearded Tit Long-tailed Tit Marsh Tit Willow Tit Coal Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Nuthatch Treecreeper Golden riole Red-backed Shrike Lesser Grey Shrike Great Grey Shrike Jay Magpie Jackdaw Rook Carrion Crow Hooded Crow Raven Common Starling House Sparrow Tree Sparrow Common Chaffinch Brambling Greenfinch Goldfinch Siskin Linnet Twite Mealy Redpoll Lesser Redpoll Common Crossbill Bullfinch Hawfinch Snow Bunting Yellowhammer Lapland Bunting Reed Bunting Corn Bunting Annual Totals of Full Species recorded. 112 1 128 115 153 132 134 144 16 137 Total Number of full species recorded since 193 = 251 Recognisable Sub-species. Continental [Great] Cormorant Greenland White-fronted Goose Dark-bellied Brent Goose Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail Greenland Northern Wheatear Siberian Chiffchaff Northern Willow Warbler Annual Totals of Sub-Species recorded. Total Number of sub-species recorded = 7 1 2 1
Total Number of full species and sub-species recorded = 258 Annual Totals of Full & Sub-Species recorded. 112 1 128 153 132 134 144 16 138 Hybrid Bar-headed Goose x Snow Goose Canada Goose x Greylag Goose Wigeon sp. Tufted Duck x Scaup Sp. Tufted Duck x Pochard Ruddy Duck x Argentine Blue Bill Blk-headed Gull x Med. Gull Total Number of Hybrid Species = 7 Exotica/Escapes/Feral Flamingo sp. Chilean Flamingo. Black Swan Chinese or Swan Goose. Bar-headed Goose Snow Goose Ruddy Shelduck South African Shelduck New Zealand Shoveller Chiloe Wigeon Muscovy Duck Aylesbury Duck Wood Duck White-headed Duck Tawny Eagle Lanner Falcon Red-collared Widowbird White-crowned Mannakin [Chestnut Mannakin]? Rufous-backed Mannakin Total Number of Exotica Species 19 Additional Species Reported but not substantiated or accepted by the National Rarities Committee. Red-footed Falcon? Long-tailed Skua Richard's Pipit Red-throated Pipit Little Bunting *Res closed Feb - June by Foot & Mouth All rights reserved. Not to be reproduced without written permission of SRG List prepared by Fredk. P. Littlemore updated by SRG