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Wildlife | Birds in Berkshire

Species List of Birds found in Berkshire

Common Name Black-headed Gull Blackbird Blackcap Blue Tit Bullfinch Hooded Crow Chaffinch Coal Tit Dunnock Goldcrest Goldfinch Marsh Tit Mistle Thrush Nuthatch Pied Wagtail Reed Bunting Robin Rock Dove Rook

Scientific Name Larus ridibundus Turdus merula Sylvia atricapilla Parus caeruleus Pyrrhula Corvus corone Fringilla coelebs Parus ater Prunella modularis Regulus regulus carduelis Parus palustris Turdus viscivorus Sitta europaea Motacilla alba Emberiza schoeniclus Erithacus rubeculaColumba liviaCorvus

Common Name Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Starling Great Spotted Woodpecker Green Woodpecker Great Tit Greenfinch House Sparrow Jackdaw Jay Long-tailed Tit Magpie Tawny Owl Tree Sparrow Treecreeper Woodpigeon Whitethroat Wren Willow Warbler Sedge warbler Yellowhammer

Scientific Name frugilegusTurdus philomelosAccipiter nisus Sturnus vulgaris Dendrocopos major Dendrocopos sp. Parus major Carduelis chloris Passer domesticus Corvus monedula Garrulus glandarius Aegithalos caudatus Pica pica Strix aluco Passer montanus Certhia familiaris Columba palumbus Troglodytes troglodytes Emberiza citrinella

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Top ten of the most Common Feeding Birds found in Berkshire Gardens

Most noticeable are the sharp decline of the house sparrow, song thrush and starling, and the rise of the collared dove.

Position	1970's	1990's
1	Blackbird	Blue tit
2	Blue tit	Blackbird
3	Robin	Robin
4	House sparrow	Great tit
5	Starling	Greenfinch
6	Dunnock	Chaffinch
7	Great tit	Dunnock
8	Chaffinch	House sparrow
9	Greenfinch	Starling
10	Song thrush	Collared dove

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Table showing Britain's birds - The Winners and Losers

Winners

• Red kite - Fork tailed bird of prey persecuted by keepers and egg collectors. Reduced to one female in Wales before Britain's most successful reintroduction programme, 2,500 pairs predicted by 2010
• Blackcap - Sweet singing wood and scrub warbler. Big population expansion into Northern England and Ireland. 620,000 pairs
• Hobby - Britain's only migrant bird of prey. Once a rare visitor to Southern England; now has spread North and increased to more than 600 pairs.
• Magpie - Continues to thrive despite persecution, population has increased to more than 910,000 pairs.
• Siskin  - Found in coniferous plantations originally only found in Scottish forests, now 360,000 pairs
• Nuthatch - Once common only in Southern England, now expanded to Scotland and colonised all of Wales.

Losers

• Red Backed shrike - Victim of farming intensification and egg collectors. Disappeared from East Anglian heathland about 1990
• Lapwing - Fast running out of food and habitat because of changing agricultural practices. Population in freefall, estimated 126,000 pairs.
• Corn bunting - forced out by farming intensification. Possibly extinct in Ireland and having a bad time in Britain. Fewer than 20,000 pairs
• Turtle dove - declined by 85 % from English farmland in 25 years, down to 50,000 pairs
• Skylark - Victim of farming intensification & thus loss of favourable habitat, 2m pairs
• Spotted flycatcher - Another victim of farming intensification. Less than 100,000 pairs
  
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