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Statistics - Sandgrouse to Swallows

These statistics represent the incidence of each species in Britain, as well as at sea inside the economic exclusion zone (200 nm from land) , that is, the number of new individuals recorded in each year.
Code: n/c not collated

1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Pallas's Sandgrouse

Syrrhaptes paradoxus

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

3

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Oriental Turtle Dove

Streptopelia orientalis

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

1

0

0

0

Oriental Turtle Dove

Streptopelia orientalis meena

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

Mourning Dove

Zenaida macroura

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Clamator glandarius

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

1

0

1

2

0

1

1

0

0

1

2

3

0

0

2

0

0

0

1

0

0

2

3

0

3

1

1

1

0

0

1

1

1

2

0

1

0

1

0

Black-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus erythrophthalmus

1

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

0

0

2

3

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

2

2

0

1

0

0

1

0

2

1

2

2

0

0

0

5

1

2

1

2

1

2

0

0

1

2

0

0

0

2

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

Scops Owl

Otus scops

0

0

0

1

2

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

2

1

1

1

0

1

1

0

1

1

0

0

2

0

1

0

0

2

1

0

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

1

1

2

2

0

3

Snowy Owl

Nyctea scandiaca

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

1

0

5

7

16

6

10

2

9

4

3

12

6

7

4

1

4

2

6

4

4

1

1

2

0

1

1

1

2

3

4

1

5

5

1

4

3

1

1

1

3

0

1

1

7

2

Hawk Owl

Surnia ulula

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Tengmalm's Owl

Aegolius funereus

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

1

0

1

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Red-necked Nightjar

Caprimulgus ruficollis

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Egyptian Nightjar

Caprimulgus aegyptius

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Common Nighthawk

Chordeiles minor

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

2

0

1

0

0

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

3

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Chimney Swift

Chaetura pelagica

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

1

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

1

1

0

0

0

6

0

Needle-tailed Swift

Hirundapus caudacutus

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0