A total of 194 bird species have been recorded at (YWT) Sprotbrough Flash since 1957 within a catchment area which comprises of the Flash, Pot ridings wood, Levitt hagg wood, Sprotbrough plantation, Limestone meadow, (TPT) Trans pennine trail and river Don at Sprotbrough. Additional areas where birds are known to travel into or through the catchment area have also been included for recording purposes. Listed below is part 1 of the comprehensive bird list (click to expand individual bird data). Sparrowhawk ringed in 2019.
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001 Mute swan cygnus olor
002 Bewick's /Tundra swan cygnus columbianus
003 Whooper Swan cygnus cygnus
004 Pink-footed Goose anser brachyrhynchus
005 Greylag Goose anser anser
006 Snow Goose anser caerulescens
007 Canada Goose branta canadensis
008 Barnacle Goose branta leucopsis
009 Brent (Brant) Goose branta bernicla
010 Egyptian Goose alopochen aegyptiaca
011 Shelduck tadorna tadorna
012 Mandarin Duck aix galericulata
013 Wigeon anas penelope
014 Gadwall mareca strepera
015 Eurasian Teal anas crecca
016 Mallard anas platyrhynchos
017 Northern Pintail anas acuta
018 Garganey anas querquedula
019 Northern Shoveler anas clypeata
020 Red-crested Pochard netta rufina
021 Pochard aythya ferina
022 Tufted Duck aythya fuligula
023 Greater Scaup aythya marila
024 Common Eider somateria mollissima
025 Long-tailed Duck clangula hyemalis
026 Common Scoter melanitta nigra
027 Goldeneye bucephala clangula
028 Smew mergellus albellus
029 Red-breasted Merganser mergus serrator
030 Goosander mergus merganser
031 Ruddy Duck oxyura jamaicensis
032 Red-legged Partridge alectoris rufa
033 Grey Partridge perdix perdix
034 Pheasant phasianus colchicus
035 Fulmar fulmarus glacialis
036 Northern Gannet morus bassanus
037 Cormorant phalacrocorax carbo
038 Shag phalacrocorax aristotelis
039 Bittern botaurus stellaris
040 Little Egret egretta garzetta
041 Great white Egret ardea alba
042 Spoonbill platalea leucorodia
043 Grey Heron ardea cinerea
044 White Stork ciconia ciconia
045 Common Crane grus grus
046 Little Grebe tachybabtus ruficollis
047 Great crested Grebe podiceps cristatus
048 Red-necked grebe podiceps grisegena
049 Honey buzzard pernis apivorus
050 Red kite milvus milvus
051 Marsh harrier circus aeruginosus
052 Hen harrier circus cyaneus
053 Goshawk accipiter gentilis
054 Sparrowhawk accipiter nisus
055 Buzzard buteo buteo
056 Osprey pandion haliaetus
057 Kestrel falco tinnunculus
058 Merlin falco columbarius
059 Hobby falco subbuteo
060 Peregrine falcon falco peregrinus
061 Ring-necked parakeet psittacula krameri
062 Water rail rallus aquaticus
063 Spotted crake porzana porzana
064 Moorhen gallinula chloropus
065 Coot fulica atra
066 Oystercatcher haematopus ostralegus
067 Golden plover pluvialis apricaria
068 Northern Lapwing vanellus vanellus
069 Little ringed plover charadrius dubius
070 Ringed plover charadrius hiatcuka
071 Whimbrel numenius phaeopus
072 Curlew numenius arquata
073 Black-tailed godwit limosa limosa
074 Dunlin calidris alpina
075 Grey / Red phalarope phalaropus fulicarius
076 Common sandpiper actitis hypoleucos
077 Green sandpiper tringa ochropus
078 Spotted redshank tringa erythropus
079 Greenshank tringa nebularia
080 Wood sandpiper tringa glareola
081 Redshank tringa totanus
082 Jack snipe lymnocryptes minimus
083 Woodcock scolopax rusticola
084 Snipe gallinago gallinago
085 Little tern sternula albifrons
086 Black tern childonias niger
087 Common tern sterna hirundo
088 Roseate tern sterna douglii
089 Arctic tern sterna paradisaea
090 Long-tailed skua stercorarius longicaudus
091 Kittiwake rissa tridactyla
092 Black-headed gull chroicocephalus ridibundus
093 Mediterranean gull larus melanocephalus
094 Common gull larus canus
095 Lesser black-backed gull larus fuscus
096 Herring gull arus argentatus
097 Yellow-legged gull larus michahellis
098 Iceland gull larus glaucoides
099 Glaucous gull larus hyperboreus
100 Great black-backed gull larus marinus
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