Note: the Worcestershire County Bird Recorder role is currently vacant. Please contact the West Midland Bird Club if you are interested in volunteering for this position.

Category A - these species require a full written description to confirm that the correct identification has been achieved. 

Category B - these species require the observers name(s) for the record to be accepted but a brief description may also requested, particularly if the record is from an unusual location or at an unusual time of the year.

Category C - these species do not fall within the above categories for recording purposes but are still of interest to be included on the sightings page of this website.

Other Species - these species will not generally be included on the sightings page due to the number of birds occuring annually but early/late records of summer & winter visitors will be included. All records can of course be submitted to the county recorder.

	Species	Category
1	Mute Swan	-
2	Bewick's Swan	A
3	Whooper Swan	A
4	Bean Goose	A
5	Pink-footed Goose	B
6	White-fronted Goose	A
7	Greylag Goose	-
8	Canada Goose	-
9	Barnacle Goose	-
10	Brent Goose	A
11	Egyptian Goose	B
12	Shelduck	-
13	Mandarin	C
14	Wigeon	-
15	American Wigeon*	A
16	Gadwall	-
17	Teal	-
18	Green-winged Teal	A
19	Mallard	-
20	Pintail	C
21	Garganey	B
22	Blue-winged Teal	A
23	Shoveler	-
24	Red-crested Pochard	B
25	Pochard	-
26	Ring-necked Duck	A
27	Ferruginous Duck	A
28	Tufted Duck	-
29	Scaup	B
30	Lesser Scaup	A
31	Eider	A
32	Long-tailed Duck	A
33	Common Scoter	B
34	Surf Scoter	A
35	Velvet Scoter	A
36	Goldeneye	C
37	Smew	A
38	Red-breasted Merganser	A
39	Goosander	C
40	Ruddy Duck	-
41	Black Grouse (extinct)	A
42	Red-legged Partridge	-
43	Grey Partridge	C
44	Quail	A
45	Pheasant	-
46	Red-throated Diver	A
47	Black-throated Diver	A
48	Great Northern Diver	A
49	Little Grebe	-
50	Great Crested Grebe	-
51	Red-necked Grebe	A
52	Slavonian Grebe	A
53	Black-necked Grebe	A
54	Fulmar	A
55	Manx Shearwater	A
56	Storm Petrel	A
57	Leach's Petrel	A
58	Gannet	A
59	Cormorant	-
60	Shag	A
61	Bittern	A**
62	Little Bittern	A
63	Night Heron	A
64	Squacco Heron	A
65	Cattle Egret	A
66	Little Egret	C
67	Great White Egret	A
68	Grey Heron	-
69	Purple Heron	A
70	Black Stork	A
71	White Stork	A
72	Spoonbill	A
73	Honey Buzzard	A
74	Black Kite	A
75	Red Kite	C
76	White-tailed Eagle	A
77	Marsh Harrier	A
78	Hen Harrier	A
79	Montagu's Harrier	A
80	Goshawk	A
81	Sparrowhawk	-
82	Buzzard	-
83	Rough-legged Buzzard	A
84	Osprey	B
85	Kestrel	-
86	Red-footed Falcon	A
87	Merlin	B
88	Hobby	C
89	Peregrine	-
90	Water Rail	-
91	Spotted Crake	A
92	Corncrake	A
93	Moorhen	-
94	Coot	-
95	Common Crane	A
96	Great Bustard	A
97	Oystercatcher	-
98	Black-winged Stilt	A
99	Avocet	A**
100	Stone Curlew	A
101	Collared Pratincole	A
102	Little Ringed Plover	-
103	Ringed Plover	-
104	Kentish Plover	A
105	Dotterel	A
106	Golden Plover	C
107	Grey Plover	A
108	Lapwing	-
109	Knot	B
110	Sanderling	B
111	Little Stint	B
112	Temminck's Stint	A
113	Least Sandpiper	A
114	White-rumped Sandpiper	A
115	Pectoral Sandpiper	A
116	Curlew Sandpiper	B
117	Purple Sandpiper	A
118	Dunlin	-
119	Ruff	C
120	Jack Snipe	C
121	Snipe	-
122	Long-billed Dowitcher	A
123	Woodcock	C
124	Black-tailed Godwit	C
125	Bar-tailed Godwit	B
126	Whimbrel	B
127	Curlew	-
128	Spotted Redshank	A
129	Redshank	-
130	Greenshank	C
131	Green Sandpiper	C
132	Wood Sandpiper	A
133	Common Sandpiper	-
134	Turnstone	B
135	Wilson's Phalarope	A
136	Red-necked Phalarope	A
137	Grey Phalarope	A
138	Pomarine Skua	A
139	Arctic Skua	A
140	Long-tailed Skua	A
141	Great Skua	A
142	Mediterranean Gull	C
143	Laughing Gull	A
144	Little Gull	B
145	Sabine's Gull	A
146	Black-headed Gull	-
147	Ring-billed Gull	A
148	Common Gull	-
149	Lesser Black-backed Gull	-
150	Caspian Gull	A
151	Yellow-legged Gull	C
152	Herring Gull	-
153	Iceland Gull	A
154	Glaucous Gull	A
155	Great Black-backed Gull	C
156	Kittiwake	B
157	Little Tern	A
158	Caspian Tern	A
159	Whiskered Tern	A
160	Black Tern	B
161	White-winged Black Tern	A
162	Sandwich Tern	A
163	Common Tern	-
164	Roseate Tern	A
165	Arctic Tern	B
166	Razorbill	A
167	Little Auk	A
168	Puffin	A
169	Pallas's Sandgrouse	A
170	Stock Dove	-
171	Woodpigeon	-
172	Collared Dove	-
173	Turtle Dove	C
174	Ring-necked Parakeet	B
175	Cuckoo	-
176	Barn Owl	-
177	Little Owl	-
178	Tawny Owl	-
179	Long-eared Owl	A
180	Short-eared Owl	B
181	Tengmalm's Owl	A
182	Nightjar	A
183	Swift	-
184	Alpine Swift	A
185	Kingfisher	-
186	Bee-eater	A
187	Hoopoe	A
188	Wryneck	A
189	Green Woodpecker	-
190	Great Spotted Woodpecker	-
191	Lesser Spotted Woodpecker	C
192	Woodlark	A
193	Skylark	-
194	Shorelark	A
195	Sand Martin	-
196	Swallow	-
197	House Martin	-
198	Red-rumped Swallow	A
199	Richard's Pipit	A
200	Tree Pipit	C
201	Meadow Pipit	-
202	Rock Pipit	B
203	Water Pipit	A
204	Yellow Wagtail	C
205	Grey Wagtail	-
206	Pied Wagtail	-
207	Waxwing	A
208	Dipper	C
209	Wren	-
210	Dunnock	-
211	Robin	-
212	Nightingale	B
213	Bluethroat	A
214	Black Redstart	B
215	Redstart	C
216	Whinchat	C
217	Stonechat	-
218	Wheatear	C
219	Ring Ouzel	C
220	Blackbird	-
221	Dusky Thrush	A
222	Black-throated Thrush	A
223	Fieldfare	-
224	Song Thrush	-
225	Redwing	-
226	Mistle Thrush	-
227	Cetti's Warbler	A**
228	Grasshopper Warbler	B
229	Savi's Warbler	A
230	Aquatic Warbler	A
231	Sedge Warbler	-
232	Marsh Warbler	A
233	Reed Warbler	-
234	Icterine Warbler	A
235	Blackcap	-
236	Garden Warbler	-
237	Lesser Whitethroat	-
238	Whitethroat	-
239	Dartford Warbler	A
240	Pallas's Warbler	A
241	Yellow-browed Warbler	A
242	Wood Warbler	C
243	Chiffchaff	-
244	Willow Warbler	-
245	Goldcrest	-
246	Firecrest	A
247	Spotted Flycatcher	C
248	Pied Flycatcher	C
249	Bearded Tit	A
250	Long-tailed Tit	-
251	Blue Tit	-
252	Great Tit	-
253	Coal Tit	-
254	Willow Tit	A
255	Marsh Tit	-
256	Nuthatch	-
257	Treecreeper	-
258	Golden Oriole	A
259	Red-backed Shrike	A
260	Lesser Grey Shrike	A
261	Great Grey Shrike	A
262	Woodchat Shrike	A
263	Jay	-
264	Magpie	-
265	Chough	A
266	Jackdaw	-
267	Rook	-
268	Carrion Crow	-
269	Hooded Crow	A
270	Raven	-
271	Starling	-
272	Rose-coloured Starling	A
273	House Sparrow	-
274	Tree Sparrow	C
275	Chaffinch	-
276	Brambling	C
277	Serin	A
278	Greenfinch	-
279	Goldfinch	-
280	Siskin	-
281	Linnet	-
282	Twite	A
283	Mealy Redpoll	A
284	Lesser Redpoll	-
285	Arctic Redpoll	A
286	Two-barred Crossbill	A
287	Crossbill	C
288	Bullfinch	-
289	Hawfinch	C
290	Lapland Bunting	A
291	Snow Bunting	A
292	Pine Bunting	A
293	Yellowhammer	-
294	Cirl Bunting	A
295	Rustic Bunting	A
296	Little Bunting	A
297	Reed Bunting	-
298	Corn Bunting	C

 
* subject to acceptance by the relevant rarities committee

** away from Upton Warren