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Brent
Bird
Survey

Photos by Steve Hopper

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Hot off the presses:

Review and Addendum of the Birds of South Brent Parish 2018-2025

Download a pdf here

The South Brent Parish Bird Survey (SBPBS) began in 2014 and, for the first three years, each of the 52 1-km squares (monads) comprising the parish was visited at least once every month by at least one experienced birder. The results were published by Brent Birders (2018) in The Birds of South Brent Parish. Since then, until 2024, the survey continued in reduced form to cover the winter and breeding periods, in January and May respectively, when all squares were visited during each month. In addition, casual records in other months and post−2024 continue to add to our knowledge of the South Brent avifauna. Species added to the list include Common Rosefinch, Redshank, Cetti's Warbler and Reed Warbler.

We also have a Species Summary and mapping of all species recorded in the parish up to 2024. This can be downloaded here.

Wildlife talks in South Brent: Brent Birders may not be arranging any talks at the moment but rest assured that there is an ongoing series of talks organised by Sustainable South Brent. So far talks have been on:

The Butterflies and Moths of South Brent Parish
‘Planting Hope: The Creation of a New Community Woodland’

Future talks include:

Pine Martens. 20th February, 7.30pm in the Old School Community Centre
Devon's Hedgerows - details tba
The earth as a biosystem - details tba

For more details look at the SSB website at ssb.org.uk

The Birds of South Brent Parish
before, during and beyond the 2014–16 survey
2022 ADDENDUM

Our book "The Birds of South Brent Parish" was published in March 2018, and although it included records from 2017 and early 2018, it is now out of date by nearly five years. We have now produced an Addendum to accompany the latest small print run of the book.

The Addendum includes:

Additions to the parish list from historical records
Other taxa recorded only since 2017, but not added to the parish list
Additions to the parish list since the publication of TBOSBP
Species on the parish list recorded since 2017, but not during 2014–17
Other notable records since 2017
Notable additional breeding records since 2017
The occurrence of non-annual species 2014–2022
New monthly occurrences
Gains and losses, ups and downs

The focus is on additions to the parish list and records of other rare and scarce species since 2017, but also includes occurrences in new months, new breeding records and some other observations of change. Additional records now bring the parish bird species total to a remarkable 165.

If you already have a copy of "The Birds of South Brent Parish" or plan to buy one of our new limited print run or would just like to see an overview of the birds recorded on the parish you can download the Addendum pdf here.

Reports

Since the start of the Brent Bird Survey in 2014 several exciting reports have been written summarising sightings of new and exotic species in the parish as well as those which are rather more familar but equally exciting. These reports can be downloaded from the links below (BBS = Brent Bird Survey ; BBGBS = Brent Birders Garden Bird Survey):

A crib sheet for breeding codes, grid references and square numbers

This Crib Sheet may be useful to all observers out there. It converts between Ordnance Grid References and the square numbering used by the Brent Bird Survey. It shows the geographic layout of the squares. It also shows the codes to be used in the breeding part of the survey.

I print it out in A6 size as this fits neatly inside the back cover of my field notebook but you can resize it to whatever page size you wish. If you're not sure how to do this let me (Phil) know. You can reach me either directly or via the "Contact Us" form at the bottom of this web page.

You can download the Crib Sheet here.

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