Lundy breeding seasons 2008 and 2009
Last modified: 1 September 2009
Lundy records are being collated for the BTO Atlas (2007–2011). Successful breeding by the following 30 species has been confirmed (i.e. chicks or fledged young seen, or food being carried to a nest site):
| Mallard (broods of ducklings) |
| Fulmar (recently fledged young) |
| Manx Shearwater (chicks outside burrows) |
| Shag (recently fledged young) |
| Peregrine (recently fledged young) |
| Water Rail (chicks and juveniles) |
| Oystercatcher (chicks) |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull (recently fledged young) |
| Herring Gull (recently fledged young) |
| Herring Gull (recently fledged young) |
| Great Back-backed Gull (recently fledged young) |
| Kittiwake (chicks) |
| Guillemot (chicks) |
| Razorbill (chicks) |
| Puffin (chicks seen outside burrows) |
| Skylark (nest with two chicks south of Old Light on 30 May) |
| Cuckoo (recently fledged young) |
| Meadow Pipit (recently fledged young) |
| Rock Pipit (recently fledged young) |
| Swallow (recently fledged young) |
| Pied Wagtail (recently fledged young) |
| Wren (recently fledged young) |
| Robin (recently fledged young) |
| Stonechat (adult carrying food; well-grown juveniles) |
| Wheatear (recently fledged young) |
| Blackbird (adult male carrying food) |
| Song Thrush (adult feeding fledgling) |
| Carrion Crow (young calling loudly from nest) |
| Starling (recently fledged young) |
| Chaffinch (recently fledged young) |
| Linnet (recently fledged young) |
Species present in May and June, but for which there is (so far) no definite proof of successful breeding include: Kestrel (singles on 18 dates in May and June; two reported on 10 June – all in 2008), House Martin (one collecting mud outside the Black Shed on 16 May 2008; two pairs prospecting around the Tavern, Old House and Barn in 2008), Woodpigeon (song heard from Millcombe and Quarter Wall Copse in May 2008), Collared Dove (song heard in Millcombe during May 2008), Dunnock* (four singing males in May 2008 and two singing males in Aug 2009), Sedge Warbler (single territory-holding males in St John's Valley in mid-May 2008 and at Pondsbury in June 2008), Chiffchaff (singing male in Millcombe in June 2008 & June 2009), Willow Warbler (singing males in Millcombe in June 2008 & June 2009), Spotted Flycatcher (singles seen in Millcombe in June 2008 & June 2009 but almost certainly just late migrants, as no further records until autumn migration) and Raven*.
*These species are assumed to have bred as usual on Lundy in 2008 and 2009 but there are no entries in the LFS logbook that record sightings of either adults carrying food or of chicks or fledged young.
| We would be grateful to receive any information that either 'upgrades' any of these species to the list of confirmed breeders in 2008 & 2009, or that concerns known or possibly breeding species not mentioned above. |
Water Rail by Mike Langman,
from The Birds of Lundy
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