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Lesser black-backed gull Herring gull(c, d)


Great black-backed gull Kingfisher


October 2011 -


8 - -


November 2011 -


7 - -


December 2011 1


7 2 -


for the SPA (see http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/SPA/UK9009261.pdf for full details) (b) SSSI species, see Deben SSSI citation:


http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1006262.pdf (c) BAP priority species, England, see: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-5163 (d) Birds of Conservation Concern (BoCC) red list species (Eaton et al. 2009)


3.2.3 Sector 9


A total of 39 species were recorded in Sector 5 between October 2011 and March 2012. Of these, 15 were wildfowl (mute swan, Bewick’s swan, greylag goose, Canada goose, dark- bellied brent goose, pale-bellied brent goose, red-breasted goose, shelduck, wigeon, gadwall, teal, mallard, pintail, tufted duck and goosander), 14 were waders (oystercatcher, avocet, ringed plover, golden plover, grey plover, lapwing, knot, dunlin, black-tailed godwit, bar- tailed godwit, curlew, redshank, green sandpiper and turnstone) and five were gulls (black- headed gull, common gull, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull and great black-backed gull). The other five species were cormorant, little egret, grey heron, slavonian grebe and kingfisher (Table 3.3).


Table 3.3 Monthly counts of each species recorded in Sector 9 (Figure 1.1). Counts in brackets indicate known underestimates. Counts in green text indicate those that exceed the 1% national (GB) threshold and counts in red text indicate those that exceed the 1% international threshold in Holt et al. (2011)


Count of birds Species Mute swan(b)


Bewick’s swan Greylag goose Canada goose


Dark-bellied brent goose(a*, b, c) Pale-bellied brent goose Red-breasted goose Shelduck(b) Wigeon(b) Gadwall Teal


October 2011 40


- -


30


172 - - - - -


15


November 2011 57


-


149 -


413 - -


11 - -


[58] 12


December 2011 15


- -


15


394 - -


3 6 -


175


January 2012 5


- -


15


641 - -


11 14 -


68


February 2012 91


- - -


2183 2 1


21 6 2


[11]


March 2012 114


1 -


2


131 - -


21 - -


16


January 2012 2


5 -


1


February 2012 -


3 - -


March 2012 1


11 - -


(a) SPA qualifying species (Stroud et al. 2001). *Dark-bellied brent goose is not listed as a qualifying species for the Deben Estuary in the SPA review (Stroud et al. 2001), but is listed on the Natura 2000 Standard Data form


October 2012 – Final


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