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LONDON BIRD REPORT 2016 LONDON NaturaL histOry sOciety 1 LONDON BIRD REPORT ——— NO.81 FOR THE YEAR 2016 PRODUCED BY THE LBR EDITORIAL BOARD PUBLISHED MAY 2018 2 LONDON BIRD REPORT NO.81 2016 3 CONTENTS ——— Introduction and Acknowledgements – Pete Lambert ............................... 5 Appendix I: Escapes - Pete Lambert ......................................................... 165 Rarities Committee and Recorders ...................................................... 7 Appendix II: Hybrids - Pete Lambert ......................................................... 169 Recording Arrangements .................................................................. 8 Appendix III: Non-proven & non-submitted records and records in circulation ....... 171 Map of the London Area ................................................................... 9 First and Last Dates of Regular Migrants ................................................. 174 Review of the Year – Nick Rutter .......................................................10 Contributors to the Systematic List ................................................... 16 Papers about birds in the London Area ........................... 175 Ringing Report – Paul Roper ............................................................. 177 Birds of the London Area: the systematic list ..................... 23 Cory’s Shearwater at The Regent’s Park - David Johnson .......................... 184 Swans to Shelduck - Alex Massey ............................................................... 25 The Breeding Bird Survey in London – Ian Woodward ............................... 187 Dabbling Ducks - Magnus Anderson ............................................................ 30 An Historic Review of the Birds of the Inner Thames Kentish Marshes Diving Ducks - Dave Bradshaw .................................................................. 36 to 1900 - John F. Burton................................................................190 Gamebirds - Bob Watts .......................................................................... 42 The Birds of Franks Park, Belvedere, 2001-2016 - Andrew S. Waller ............. 220 Divers to Shag - Ian Woodward ................................................................. 44 Oriental Turtle Dove at Otford, Kent - Barry Wright ................................ 225 Herons - Gareth Richards ........................................................................ 50 BTO House Martin Study, Redbridge - Chris Gannaway & Bill Neate............... 228 Raptors - Andrew Moon .......................................................................... 56 Rails - Quentin Given ............................................................................ 64 Publication of the London Bird Atlas and supplements ....... 235 Oystercatcher to Jack Snipe - Roy Woodward ............................................... 67 Parrots in the London Area - A Summary of a London Bird Atlas Supplement - Common Snipe to Phalaropes - Andrew Self ................................................. 76 Richard Arnold, Ian Woodward, Neil Smith ......................................... 237 Skuas to Gulls - Richard Bonser ................................................................ 82 Links to files on the LNHS website: http://lnhs.org.uk Terns - David Campbell .......................................................................... 91 Please follow these sequences on the new LNHS website to find links to files. Auks to Cuckoo - John Colmans ................................................................ 94 About Us> LNHS Sections> London Bird Club. ‘The London Bird Report’: Rare birds Owls to Woodpeckers - Paul Goodman ...................................................... 101 in London 1900 to 2015. Larks to Waxwing - Gabriel Jamie ............................................................ 110 About Us> LNHS Sections> London Bird Club. ‘Bird Recording’: Checklist Guide Wren to Thrushes - Alan Lewis, Quentin Given, Dave Bradshaw, Tim Harris, Breeding Criteria' (PDF) or 'Checklist Guide' (spreadsheet); Full Gazetteer; LNHS Andrew Self, Peter Newmark ............................................................... 119 Bird Recording Form. Warblers - Paul Whiteman ..................................................................... 128 Publications> London Bird Report> ‘Downloads’: Consolidated contents; past issues Crests to Treecreeper - Pete Lambert, Paul Whiteman, Quentin Given, of the London Bird Report; Foreign-ringed Black-headed Gulls by Alan Gibson; A Study of the Movements and Site Fidelity of Foreign Ringed Black-headed Gulls Paul Goodman ................................................................................ 138 in St James’s Park, 1983-86 by A.P. Gosling; Indexes of Common and Scientific Golden Oriole to Sparrows - Alan Lewis ..................................................... 146 Names. Chaffinch to Siskin - Angela Linnell .......................................................... 153 Linnet to Hawfinch - Pete Lambert .......................................................... 157 Front cover: Lesser Whitethroat. (Russ Sherriff) Buntings - Bob Watts ........................................................................... 161 Back cover: Gulls passing the Shard in central London on the way to their to roost. (Jonathan Lethbridge) 4 LONDON BIRD REPORT NO.81 2016 5 LONDON NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY LONDON BIRD REPORT FOR 2016 FOUNDED 1858 - REGISTERED CHARITY NO. 206228 ——— HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS A. J. Barratt, D. Bevan, FLS, R. M. Burton, MA, FLS, This London Bird Report has been produced by an Editorial Board, comprising: J. A. Edgington, PhD, FLS, J. F. Hewlett, PhD, K. H. Hyatt, FLS Chair of Editorial Board ..................................... Pete Lambert OFFICERS FOR 2018 Chair of Rarities Committee .................................... Bob Watts PRESIDENT Data Manager .................................................. Roger Payne Vacant Editors: Birds of the London Area .......................................... VICE-PRESIDENTS Helen Baker, MBOU, Colin Bowlt, PhD, FLS, Mark Burgess, David J. Montier, Pete Lambert with Derek Coleman, Sally Middleton, Ian Woodward Colin W. Plant, BSc, FRES, Pat J. Sellar, BSc (Eng), FRGS, MBOU, Editor: Papers ..................................................... Mike Trier R. John Swindells, Edward Tuddenham, MD, H. Michael Wilsdon, MBOU Editor: Photographs ................................. Jonathan Lethbridge SECRETARY Editor: Remaining Sections ................................. Pete Lambert David Howdon Production Manager ............................................. Gus Wilson TREASURER Other members ................................................. John Archer Michael West ASSISTANT TREASURER Introduction Robin Blades There have been some changes in this issue to the species that our Rarities Committee consider. Starting with this edition, our Rarities Committee will no longer require World List Abbreviation: Lond. Bird Rep. descriptions for Great Egret, Caspian Gull or Yellow-browed Warbler. For those wishing Copyright © London Natural History Society 2018 to check online for dates when rare birds have been seen in London, there is a link on Designed by Nigel Partridge our website which you should be able to reach by a search for ‘Rare birds in London 1900 to 2015’. Printed by Swallowtail Print Limited, Norwich, Norfolk The Birds of the London Area section has been edited by a team this year, but we are ISBN 0 901009 44 X still looking for others who would like to join that team. If you think you might be able ISSN 0141 4348 to help, please contact me. We are also looking for someone with web skills who could help us improve our section of the LNHS website. Published by Because of a shortage of space in this issue, the following items are now on the the London Natural History Society – May 2018 website rather than printed in this report: Mini-Gazetteer, Checklist, Breeding Criteria http://www.lnhs.org.uk and Indexes. LONDON BIRD CLUB While working on this report we were sorry to hear of the death in early 2017 of David The London Bird Club is the section of the London Natural History Society Wills, who for many years provided us with details of birds recorded at Wimbledon for those with a particular interest in birds. Common. Amongst changes to our Gazetteer, we are now distinguishing between two Wandle http://www.lnhs.org.uk > About Us> LNHS Sections> London Bird Club Parks in our Surrey sector: Wandle Park, Colliers Wood (TQ267703) and Wandle Park, twitter.com/londonbirdclub Croydon (TQ315656). CHAIR Richard Carpenter, one of the people who proof-read this issue, is stepping down from Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne this role and we would like to thank him for all the work he has done for us. As always, your comments on this issue are very welcome, especially any suggestions COMMITTEE SECRETARY as to how we could improve things even more. My contact details are given below. Douglas Bilton 6 LONDON BIRD REPORT NO.81 2016 7 Acknowledgements RARITIES COMMITTEE AND RECORDERS On behalf of the London Natural History Society, I would like to thank the many ——— individuals and organisations who have contributed their records. Without your enthusiastic support we could not produce the annual London Bird Report. I would also like to thank all those volunteers who helped with the production of the RARITIES COMMITTEE report: the authors of the Review of the Year and the Systematic List, and the authors Chairman: Bob Watts of the papers (listed above);