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Goldcrest - britains smallest bird at Hanningfield

Friday, 6. November 2009, 20:25:04

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On Monday I ended up at Hanningfield Essex Wildlife Trust nature reserve, where thanks to the dry weatehr we have had this year here in Essex, the reservoir is very low (just above 50% capicity I'm told) so the birds hides were to far from the water for any photography. But just as I was about to give hope of getting anything I noticed a little bird feeding in the hedgerowA goldcrest :smile:

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Britain’s commonest mammal

Friday, 15. May 2009, 06:33:56

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After the success of the Britain’s commonest bird post, I thought I’d tackle Britain’s commonest mammal. Finding out the exact population numbers for the mammals found in Britain is a difficult process, due to the secretive and often nocturnal habits of most the mammal species. Due to this some of the numbers have been estimated by recording the density of a species in the habitats in which it occurs and their total population extrapolated by multiplying the density by area of each habitat. This, combined with other factors such lack of recording, has led to some species population estimates being correct only in their broad ranking or even only to the right order of magnitude in some cases. Despite these difficulties population estimates have been published and I have used those from DEFRA’s website in order to create a list of the top five most common mammals in Britain, which is as follows:

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Britains most common bird

Thursday, 21. August 2008, 19:36:00

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After the question of what is Britains biggest bird, I thought I'd ask and answer another question: What is Britains commonest bird? The first set of data I have used is that based on numbers of breeding pairs or breeding territories. This is because the actual number of each bird species in the UK rises and falls depending on the time of year due to migrations, breeding and deaths in winter etc, so the number of breeding pairs gives a clearer picture of the true abundance of each species. I also used this data as it is easily accessible on the RSPB website

The top 10 most common British birds are:

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Britains Biggest Bird

Tuesday, 26. February 2008, 18:54:04

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What is the UKs biggest bird? It’s a question that comes up in conversions between birders, questions from inquisitive youngsters (and adults) and, I guess, pub quizzes. So what is the answer? Well there it depends on how you define ‘biggest,’ i.e. is it the tallest, the heaviest or biggest wingspan?

We’ll start with the tallest:

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