- 27/01/2019
- Nature Notes
The Wetland Bird Survey was recorded on 20-21 January 2019 across the Swale Special Protected Area for Birds by volunteers.
Elmley NNR has two sectors of the Swale - Elmley Marshes and Spitend Marshes. An incredible 23,000 birds were recorded at Elmley NNR and more than 40,000 on the Swale as a whole.
| Elmey | Spitend | TOTAL | |
| Mute Swan | 41 | 5 | 46 |
| Whooper Swan | 0 | ||
| Red-throated Diver | |||
| Brent Goose | 780 | 780 | |
| Canada Goose | 300 | 300 | |
| Greylag Goose | 465 | 1 | 466 |
| White-fronted Goose | 0 | ||
| Shelduck | 380 | 1110 | 1490 |
| Shoveler | 2 | 2 | |
| Gadwall | 0 | ||
| Wigeon | 11900 | 3220 | 15120 |
| Mallard | 1120 | 8 | 1128 |
| Pintail | 0 | ||
| Teal | 500 | 220 | 720 |
| Pochard | 0 | ||
| Common Scoter | |||
| Tufted Duck | 0 | ||
| Little Grebe | 3 | 12 | 15 |
| Great crested Grebe | 1 | 1 | |
| Red-necked Grebe | |||
| Grey Heron | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Little Egret | 7 | 7 | |
| Cattle Egret | 0 | ||
| Bittern | |||
| Spoonbill | 0 | ||
| Cormorant | 3 | 3 | |
| Moorhen | 8 | 8 | |
| Coot | 257 | 257 | |
| Water Rail | 0 | ||
| 0 | |||
| Oystercatcher | 0 | ||
| Avocet | 36 | 36 | |
| Lapwing | 730 | 80 | 810 |
| Golden Plover | 0 | ||
| Grey Plover | 130 | 130 | |
| Ringed Plover | 20 | 20 | |
| Whimbrel | 0 | ||
| Curlew | 505 | 505 | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | 0 | ||
| Black-tailed Godwit | 430 | 430 | |
| Turnstone | 8 | 15 | 23 |
| Knot | 1100 | 1100 | |
| Ruff | 0 | ||
| Dunlin | 40 | 100 | 140 |
| Sanderling | |||
| Snipe | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Redshank | 20 | 92 | 112 |
| Green Sandpiper | 0 | ||
| Common Sandpiper | 0 | ||
| Spotted Redshank | 0 | ||
| Greenshank | 0 | ||
| 0 | |||
| Great Black-backed Gull | 0 | ||
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0 | ||
| Herring Gull | 0 | ||
| Common Gull | 0 | ||
| Black-headed Gull | 0 | ||
| Mediterranean Gull | 0 | ||
| Sandwich Tern | 0 | ||
| Common Tern | 0 | ||
| 0 | |||
| Marsh Harrier | 11 | 11 | |
| Hen Harrier | 0 | ||
| Buzzard | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| Merlin | 0 | ||
| Kestrel | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Peregrine | 1 | 1 | |
| Hobby | 0 | ||
| Sparrowhawk | 1 | 1 | |
| SE Owl | 2 | ||
| Barn Owl | 2 | ||
| TOTALS | 17901 | 5789 | 23690 |
