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RSPB Big garden birdwatch 2008

Thursday, 21. August 2008, 20:02:28

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The results for the ‘RSPB Big garden bird watch’ 2008 came out a while back and I’ve been meaning to put them on here for a while, so I thought I’d put them up to compliment yesterday’s Britains commonest bird post. This survey is the result for a one hour bird watch by almost 400,000 people, over the weekend of 26 and 27 January 2008, which counted more than six million birds across 228,000 gardens. The numbers below the species are the average number per garden

The top 10 species were:




1. House sparrow
3.60







2. Starling
3.44







3. Blackbird
2.45







4. Blue tit
2.29







5. Chaffinch
2.15







6. Wood pigeon
1.53







7. collard dove
1.43







8. Robin
1.26







9. Great tit
1.25







10. Goldfinch
1.16





This list and more infomation, including the top 10s for each county can be found here EDIT - this link now reaches the current years list

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Comments

Eric 24. August 2008, 02:07

Interesting. I would have thought pigeons and doves were much higher on the list. But I guess that's just because we get so many here.

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