Polemere Nature Reserve Bird List (List still under construction - for a detailed list with status and dates see the copy of Dawn Balmer's Bird Report for the site - click here)
The list below contains all species which have been seen at Polemere drawn from the records of the Shropshire OS. If you are visiting Polemere we would be pleased to receive your records - if you have internet access via a computer we recommend the use of the BTO website Bird Track to submit those records as in this way the records add to the national data set and are returned to the SOS for inclusion in our records. You will find Polemere on the BTO list of sites in Shropshire - go to the Bird Track website at www.bto.org/birdtrack/index.htm for more information. Make sure you authorise the BTO to send your records on to the SOS.
LITTLE
GREBE Tachybaptus ruficollis
CORMORANT
Phalacrocorax carbor
LITTLE
EGRET Egretta garzetta
HERON
Ardea cinerea
MUTE
SWAN Cygnus olor
BEWICKS
SWAN Cygnus columbianus
WHOOPER
SWAN Cygnus cygnus
PINK-FOOTED
GOOSE Anser brachyrhynchus
WHITE
FRONTED GOOSE Anser albifrons
GREYLAG
GOOSE Anser anser
BAR-HEADED
GOOSE
SNOWGOOSE
Anser caerulescens
CANADA
GOOSE Branta canadensis
BARNACLE
GOOSE Branta leucopsis
SHELDUCK
Tadorna tadorna
MANDARIN
Aix galericulata
WIGEON
Anas penelope
GADWALL
Anas strepe
TEAL
Anas crecca
MALLARD
Anas platyrhynchos
PINTAIL
Anas acuta
GARGANEY
Anas querquedula
SHOVELER
Anas clypeata
POCHARD
Aythya ferina
TUFTED
DUCK Aythya fuligula
GOOSANDER
Mergus merganser
RUDDY DUCK Oxyura jamaicensis
(list
incomplete at the moment - revisit soon)