Nottinghamshire Big Garden Birdwatch Results For 2010

Published in News by Janet Goodwin (jan) on Thursday, 8th April 2010 10:02am

After sifting through half a million people's reports on more than 8 million birds, the figures for this year's Big Garden Bird Watch have been released!

jpg imageIn Nottinghamshire 8184 people took part this year in the birdwatch, which is almost a 14% increase on the 2009 figure of 7197.

2010
Top 10 Bird Species Average
1House sparrow3.9
2Blackbird3.6
3Starling2.8
4Woodpigeon 2.1
5Blue tit2.0
6Chaffinch1.6
7Goldfinch1.6
8Collared dove1.4
9Robin1,4
10Dunnock1.2
2009
Top 10Bird speciesAverage
1House Sparrow4.1
2Starling3.3
3Blackbird3.0
4Woodpigeon2.0
5Blue Tit2.0
6Collared Dove1.5
7Goldfinch1.5
8Chaffinch1.4
9Long-tailed tit1.3
10Robin1.2

Small songbirds have suffered in the cold weather, but this also resulted in more sightings of less frequent visitors such as fieldfares, yellowhammers and bullfinches feeding in gardens due to a lack of food in the country.

The Guardian's Data Blog has some analysis of the data, which includes the percentage changes from last year's numbers - for instance the Long Tailed Tit, last year's new entry into the top 10, was down 27%.