Bird Recording

The DOS welcomes all records for birds seen in Derbyshire. The data form the core of our conservation activities and are very improtant to the Society.

Record slips make the job easier, or if you only have a few records to send in click here to send them using a form directly via the Website

To send in a record you will need the following information:

• Date
• Species name
• Location name (nearest feature on an OS Map)
• Map reference (1km reference is fine eg. SK2345)
• Observer name
• Any comments eg. breeding evidence, unusual behaviour, numbers, sex
• Observer contact details (in case there is question)

Please mail record slips to: Bryan Barnacle, Mays, Malthouse Lane, Froggatt, Derbyshire S32 3ZA

What happens to the records? Records are entered into the DOS database and are used for conservation, research and trend monitoring They are also used in the compilation of the monthly Bulletin for members of the DOS and the annual Derbyshire Bird Report

How to send in multiple records from your computer

All you need to do is to place your records in Excel so that you can format them in the following field order as follows:

• Observation Date
• EURING Number (or species name if you cannot do this, or both as in the example below)
• Location Name
• Map Reference (either SK1234 or SK123456)
• Your name (please insert your DOS Membership Number here if you are a member e.g. R2)
• Number Seen (if used, be precise eg 100 rather than "many")
• Sex
• Comments (including any breeding behaviour)

Then save them in Excel format and e mail to me as an attachment by clicking

If there is more than one observer, then place all their names in the comments field

Here is an example:

Records Requiring Special Consideration

In an effort to ensure the accuracy of all records of rare species submitted to either the Joint Recorders or to the monthly Bird Notes Compiler, all observers are required to give identification details for species in the following four categories.

Records must be supported by a full description for consideration by the Rarities Sub-committee on a special form which will be supplied by the Society. No records of species can be accepted for publication in the Derbyshire Bird Report without full supporting details.

1. Any National Rarity Species as defined by the British Birds Rarities Committee. A Special Rarity Form exists for this category and can be supplied by the Joint Recorders on request. This Society's Rarities Sub-committee does not make any decision on species in this category and accepts any decisions of the National Committee.

Special Rarity Forms exist for this category and can be supplied by the Joint Recorders on request or click here to download a form. This Society's Rarities Sub-committee does not make any decision on species in this category and accepts any decisions of the National Committee.

2. Any species not recorded in the county since 1954.

3. The following species which are on the Society's List:

Bean Goose, Snow Goose, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Eider, Long-tailed Duck, Surf Scoter, Velvet Scoter, Black Grouse, Quail (if silent), Golden Pheasant(female), Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver, Red-necked Grebe ,Fulmar ,Manx Shearwater, Storm Petrel, Leach's Petrel, Gannet, Bittern, Night Heron, Great White Egret, Purple Heron, White Stork, Spoonbill, Honey Buzzard, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Montagu's Harrier, Rough-legged Buzzard, Golden Eagle, Red-footed Falcon, Spotted Crake, Corncrake, Crane, Stone Curlew, Kentish Plover, Dotterel, American Golden Plover, Temminck's Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skua, Arctic Skua Long-tailed Skua, Great Skua, Sabine's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, White-winged Black Tern, Roseate Tern, Razorbill, Little Auk, Puffin, Alpine Swift, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Woodlark, Shorelark, Red-rumped Swallow, Richard's Pipit, Tawny Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Nightingale, Bluethroat, Aquatic Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Dartford Warbler, Pallas's Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest (away from known areas), Bearded Tit, Golden Oriole, Red backed Shrike, Woodchat Shrike, Rose-coloured Starling, Common(Mealy) Redpoll, Arctic Redpoll, Twite (away from known areas), Lapland Bunting, Snow Bunting, Cirl Bunting, Little Bunting

4. Species not covered by categories 1-3, but for which the Joint Recorders still reserve the right to ask for full details. For example Black-necked Grebe and Slavonian Grebe.

Please see the latest Derbyshire Bird Report for any further amendments to the above lists

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