Species

 Records

Details

 Bean Goose

 6

 Latest - Defford: 8 January 2006

 Brent Goose

 29

 Latest – (2) Grimley: 16 November 2008

 American Wigeon

 1

 Westwood Pool: 22 January 2008

 Green-winged Teal

 3

 Bredon’s Hardwick: 26 December 1992 – 5 January 1993

 Grimley: 18 January 2003

 Bredon’s Hardwick: 24 April 2004

 Blue-winged Teal

 4

 Upton Warren: 6 – 27 March 1968

 Upton Warren: (2) 29 September – 11 October 1980

 Wilden: 17 – 31 October 1982

 Upton Warren: 19 – 27 August 1989

 Ring-necked Duck

 3

 Bittell Reservoir: 28 March 1990

 Beckford: 3 April 2002

 Bredon’s Hardwick: 31 January – 27 March 2005

 Ferruginous Duck

 8

 Latest – Westwood Pool: 14 October 2003

 Lesser Scaup

 1

 Grimley & Westwood Pool: 11 February – March 2006

 Eider

 8

 Latest – Arrow Valley Lake: 7 May 2001 

 Long-tailed Duck

 28

 Latest – Grimley: 15 – 17 June 2006  

 Surf Scoter

 1

 Westwood Pool: 21 October 2000 

 Velvet Scoter

 6

 Latest – Wilden: 9 – 12 November 1985

 Red-breasted Merganser

 51

 Latest – Lower Moor: 10 November 2008

 Black Grouse

 Former resident

 Wyre Forest until 1893 with the final records being in 1915 at Chaddesley Wood & Hartlebury Common

 Red-throated Diver

 13

 Latest - Bredon's Hardwick: 15 February 1997

 Black-throated Diver

 7

 Latest - Larford: 20 - 21 January 1995

 Great Northern Diver

 14

 Latest - Bittell Reservoir: 7 November 2001

 Red-necked Grebe

 17

 Latest - Clifton: 30 August 2008 

 Slavonian Grebe

 36 birds

 Latest - Westwood Pool: 4th November 2008

 Fulmar

 13

 Latest - Droitwich: 27 November 2000 (picked up alive)

 Manx Shearwater

 many

 Latest - Tenbury Wells: 21 September 2006 (picked up alive)

 Storm Petrel

 4

 Evesham: 16 November 1936 (dead)

 Wickhamford: 2 November 1952 (dead)

 Bewdley: 13 July 1968

 Kemerton: 21 August 2003 (dead)

 Leach's Petrel

 39

 Latest - Bredon's Hardwick: 8 December 2006

 Gannet

 29

 Latest – Bewdley: 23 October 2008

 Shag

 20

 Latest – Gullet Quarry Pool: 2 May – 14 July (died)

 Little Bittern

 1

 Badsey: 1865 (shot)

 Cattle Egret

 1

 Besford & Bredon's Hardwick: 25 October - 27 December 1993

 Squacco Heron

 1

 Broadoak Trout Lakes, Hanley Swan: 15 June 2007

 Great White Egret

 3

 Westwood Pool: 11 - 12 September 1999

 Grimley: 8 September 2007

 Upton Warren: 1 October 2007

 Night Heron

 5

 Latest - Stourport: 22 - 23 May 1983 

 Purple Heron

 2

 Upton Warren: 5 May 1982

 Upton Warren & Oakley Pool: 29 June - 1 July 2000 

 Black Stork

 1

 Dowles Brook, Wyre Forest: 31 May 1956

 White Stork

 8

 Latest - Throckmorton: August 2005 

 Spoonbill

 10

 Latest - Wilden: 13 June 2001

 Honey Buzzard

 16

 Latest - Upton Warren: 28 - 29 May 2004

 Black Kite

 2

 Defford: 4 May 1986

 Hartlebury: 5 May 1986

 White-tailed Eagle

 1

 Wannerton: 25 December 1945 (shot)

 Montagu's Harrier

8

 Bred at Hewell Grange in 1926 with 7 records since.

 Latest - Bredon Hill:  4 May 2006

 Rough-legged Buzzard

 3

 Alvechurch: 29 October 1966

 Bromsgrove: 7 November 1974

 High Green: 15 March 1979 

 Red-footed Falcon

 1

 Westwood Pool: 15 May 2001

 Spotted Crake

 13

 Latest - Gwen Finch NR: August 2004

 Corncrake

 Bred in the county until 1967 with 7 records since.

 Latest - Crossways Green: 28 September 1988 (dead)

 Common Crane

 4

 (3) observed at Longdon Marsh, Clifton & Hartlebury   

 Common: Between 20 April – 5 May 2008

 Great Bustard

 1

 Worcester: c.1825

 Black-winged Stilt

 2

 Larford: 14 - 16 June 1985

 Upton Warren: 21 - 22 May 2006

 Stone Curlew

 Bred in the county until c.1840 with 4 records since.

 Frankley: 6 May 1991

 Bredon Hill: 1 May 1995

 Defford: 21 April 1996

 Shenstone: 5 May 2008

 Collared Pratincole 

 1

 Bredon's Hardwick: 4 May 1994

 Kentish Plover

 1

 Bittell Reservoir: 15 July 1940

 Dotterel

 22

 North Hill: 11 September 2008 

 Temminck’s Stint

 32

 Latest – (two) Lower Moor: May 2008

 Least Sandpiper

 1

 Upton Warren: 13 - 15 August 1988

 White-rumped Sandpiper

 1

 Bredon's Hardwick: 15 - 16 September 1996

 Pectoral Sandpiper

 21

 (2) Lower Moor: 19 September 2008

 Purple Sandpiper

 4

 Bittell Reservoir: 31 October 1940

 Bittell Reservoir: 19 May 1949

 Bittell Reservoir: 16 September 1981

 Bittell Reservoir: 24 August 1988

 Long-billed Dowitcher

 2

 Westwood Pool: 9 - 20 October 1990

 Bittell Reservoir: 25 September - 3 October 2006

 Wilson's Phalarope

 2

 Upton Warren: 14 September 1985

 Upton Warren: 23 - 26 September 2007

 Red-necked Phalarope

 9

 Latest - Upton Warren: 15 June 2007

 Grey Phalarope

 16

 Latest - Upton Warren: 11 – 12 September 2008

 Pomarine Skua

 4

 Bittell: (3) 21 October 1936

 Westwood Pool: 18 December 1991 

 Westwood Pool: 4 January 1995

 Westwood Pool: 22 December 1999

 Arctic Skua

 17

 Latest - Westwood Pool: 16 September 1996

 Long-tailed Skua

 1

 Upton Warren: 8 August 1987

 Great Skua

 4

 Bittell: 26 September 1971

 Upton Warren: 26 September 1971

 Bittell: 15 September 1994

 Timberhonger: 6 - 7 October 2000

 Laughing Gull

 2

 Upton Warren: 26 August - 4 September 1996

 Throckmorton & Westwood Pool: November 2005

 Sabine's Gull

 5

 Bittell: 15 August 1948

 Upton Warren & Westwood Pool: 13 - 15 September 1994

 Wilden: 20 September 1997

 Trimpley Reservoir: 11 October 1997

 Upper Bittell: 13 October 2007

 Ring-billed Gull

 13

 Latest - Bredon's Hardwick, Lower Moor & Throckmorton:

 1 November 2008

 Gull-billed Tern

 1

 Cofton Reservoir: c.1840 (shot)

 Caspian Tern

 1

 Upton Warren: 29 July 1971 

 Roseate Tern

 3

 Westwood Pool: 28 May - 1 June 1972

 Eckington: 19 - 21 May 1993

 Upton Warren: 8 May 1999

 Whiskered Tern

 1

 Bredon's Hardwick: 1 May 1994

 White-winged Black Tern

 4

 Westwood Pool: 14 May 1969

 Upton Warren: 26 September 1971

 Wilden & Westwood Pool: 11 September 1992

 Bredon's Hardwick: 3 September 2000 

 Razorbill

 1

 Overbury: 10 May 1953 (dead)

 Little Auk

 11

 Latest - Wickhamford: 7 November 1998 (picked up alive)

 Puffin

 2

 Hagley: July 1936

 Redditch: 30 August 1963

 Pallas's Sandgrouse

 1

 Cofton Hall Farm: 28 December 1888 (5 birds, 4 shot)

 Tengmalm's Owl

 1

 Wolverley: 17 November 1901 (trapped alive)

 Alpine Swift

 4

 Upton Warren: 6 May 1973

 Upton Warren: 24 May 1992

 Lower Moor: 24 April 1994

 Cookley: 28 April 1997

 Bee-eater

 3

 Kidderminster: 2 September 1955

 Redditch: 22 - 27 September 1970

 Upton Warren: 28 May 2007

 Hoopoe

 41+

 Latest - Upton Warren: 1 May 2007

 Wryneck

 46

 Latest – Inkberrow: 14 September 2008

 Woodlark

 Bred in the county until 1965 with 9 records since 1970.

 Pair bred in 2006 - 07.

 Latest – (6) Crossway Green: 1 January - 5 February

 2008

 Shorelark

 7

 Latest – Upton Warren: 18 - 24 October 2008

 Red-rumped Swallow

 2

 Upton Warren: 1 - 2 May 1992

 Westwood Pool: 17 April 2001

 Richard's Pipit

 2

 Upton Warren: 7 October 1967

 Grimley: 7 October 2007

 Bluethroat

 2

 Arley: April 1944

 Upton Warren: 24 May 1981

 Dusky Thrush

 1

 Major's Green: 17 February - 23 March 1979

 Black-throated Thrush

 1

 Redditch: 17 January - 18 February 1996

 Savi's Warbler

 4

 Upton Warren: 11 - 19 May 1985

 Church Lench Pool: 13 - 20 May 1992

 Upton Warren: 11 - 12 May 1994

 Oakley Pool: 2 - 19 May 1999

 Aquatic Warbler

 1

 Oakley Pool: 19 August 1983

 Marsh Warbler

 Bred in the county until mid 1990's with 3 records since.

 Kidderminster: June 2005

 Upton Warren: 10 June 2005

 Grimley: 26 June 2005 

 Icterine Warbler

 1

 Sherriff's Lench: 29 June 1942

 Dartford Warbler

 7

 Latest - North Hill: (2) November 2005

 Yellow-browed Warbler

 4

 Upton Warren: 8 October 1986

 Happy Valley: 10 October 1993

 North Hill: 13 October 1999

 Upton Warren: 30 November - 27 December 2003

 Pallas's Warbler

 1

 Westwood Pool: 17 November 1987

 Bearded Tit

 29

 Latest - Grimley: 23 - 30 October 2004

 Golden Oriole

 14

 Latest - Upton Warren: 13 May 2000

 Red-backed Shrike 

 Bred in the county until 1962 with 11 records since.

 Latest - Larford: 25 September 2008

 Great Grey Shrike

 many

 Latest - Bredicot: 30 September - 9 October 2008

 Lesser Grey Shrike

 1

 Wythall: 4 June 1987

 Woodchat Shrike

 1

 Weatheroak Hill: (2) 14 May 1893

 Chough

 1

 Lindridge: November 1826 (shot)

 Hooded Crow

 n/k

 Stoke Works: 27 December & Bury Mound, Wythall: 30

 December 1983

 Rose-coloured Starling

 4

 Powick: August 1855 (shot)

 Aston Somerville: 23 - 25 August 2002

 Tenbury Wells: 6 - 9 June 2003

 Callow End: April 2005 

 Twite

13

 Latest – Lineholt: 2 January 2009

 Serin

 2

 Evesham: (2+) 17 – 18 June 1978

 Wilden: 31 January & 1 April 1982

 Arctic Redpoll

 2

 Wyre Forest: (4) 14 – 26 January 1996

 Habberley Valley: 30 December 2001 – 24 January 2002 

 Lapland Bunting

 1

 Grimley: 8 - 9 October 2007

 Pine Bunting

 2

 Bibbey's Hollow: 6 - 20 February 1996

 Wadborough: January 2005

 Cirl Bunting

 Bred in the county until 1976 with 2 records since.

 Hallow: (pair) 1977

 Hartlebury: 27 February 1983

 Rustic Bunting

 1

 Upton Warren: 7 November 1987

 Little Bunting

 2

 Eckington: 25 - 26 May 1994

 Caunsall: (3) 5 February - March 2005