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Recording Doncaster's Wildlife since 1880

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Order – Birds

Birds

Wildfowl (Swans, Geese, Ducks)
Waterbirds (Cormorants, Grebes)
Seabirds (Gannets, Fulmar, Shearwater, Petrels)
Gulls & Terns
Auks ( Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbill)
Waders (Oystercatcher, Avocet, Plovers, Snipe & Woodcock, Sandpipers, ‘Shanks’, Godwits, Curlew.)
Large waterside birds (Bittern, Heron, Egrets, Spoonbill, Crane)
Rails & Crakes
Game Birds (Quail, Pheasants, Partridges, Grouse)
Pigeons and Doves
Birds of Prey (Eagles, Buzzards, Osprey, Harriers, Hawks, Falcons)
Owls & Nightjars
Near-passerines (Kingfisher, Cuckoo, Woodpeckers)
Aerial feeders (Swifts, Swallow, Martins)
Passerines (Song-birds)
   Larks, Pipits and Wagtails
   Starling, Waxwing, Dipper
   Dunnock, Wren
   Thrushes and Chats
   Goldcrest, Warblers
   Flycatchers
   Tits, Nuthatches & Creepers
   Crows, Jay
   Finches, Buntings, Sparrows

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Friday 3rd April 2026 at 6.30pm Thorpe Marsh nature reserve. 1 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 26th March at Parklands Club 7-9.30pm. 24 March 2026
  • Next Meeting – Tuesday 17th March 2026 – joint meeting with the moviemakers 16 March 2026
  • Forthcoming Event – Woodfield Park Bioblitz 19 & 20 June 2026 4 March 2026
  • Asian Hornet 1 March 2026

Gallery

Rhodocollybia butyracea - Butter Cap, Clumber Park NT, Notts. Pip attending various outings

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Slideshow

Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum), immature female, RSPB Old Moor. Garganey, RSPB Adwick Washlands. Water Report - Falconar's Water, Signed by A. H. Allen (page 2) Physarum leucophaeum - Howell Wood. Cucumber spider, Araniella sp., Thorne Moor. Aricia agestis - Brown Argus,Austerfield. Euproctis similis - Yellow-tail, Hagg Wood. Coprinus domesticus, Firerug Inkcap Coenonympha tullia - Large Heath, Thorne Moor Cirrhia icteritia - The Sallow, Austerfield.
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