What new species of bird could start nesting next in Uk? (1 Viewer)

[Nutcracker]

There's also the reverse question: which currently fairly widespread species are we next going to lose as regular breeders in Britain? I fear these becoming extinct or rare passage visitors:
Wood Warbler
Whinchat
Spotted Flycatcher
Turtle Dove
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Willow Tit

 

[Paul Chapman]

(White-spotted) Bluethroat: it likes readily available English habitat, is common (and still increasing unlike 75% of the birds you're rooting for) as soon as you come out of the Channel Tunnel and winters in Europe so has an advantage over all the birds wintering in ever-less-suitable Africa.

Cut and paste in some of this exchange (at this point):-

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=137126

You would have thought so but they don't seem to like Kent!

All the best

 

[halftwo]

There's also the reverse question: which currently fairly widespread species are we next going to lose as regular breeders in Britain? I fear these becoming extinct or rare passage visitors:
Wood Warbler
Whinchat
Spotted Flycatcher
Turtle Dove
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Willow Tit

With global warming the mountain top species such as Ptarmigan, Dotterel et al. must be more likely endangered, I'd think.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Cut and paste in some of this exchange (at this point):-

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=137126

You would have thought so but they don't seem to like Kent!

All the best

They bred at Thorne Moor in Yorks too didn't they?

Andy

 

[DMW]

What about Short-toed Treecreeper?

 

[Paul Chapman]

They bred at Thorne Moor in Yorks too didn't they?

Andy

As per link:-

Bizarrely it was White-spotted Bluethroats that nested in the 90s in Yorkshire with 3 males present and 2 pairs successfully fledging broods. That again is a large jump north. Subsequently males returned for 3 years but no further breeding took place.

I can't remember location. My only visit to Thorne Moors was a failed attempt to see Scarce Vapourer (I believe).

All the best

 

[lazza]

Only because I've just been watching them outside the window of my in-laws' house near Alicante in Spain.... how about red-rumped swallow? I read somewhere that they are colonising quite far north in France in recent years, and they seem very common indeed here now, having been quite uncommon when I first started coming here only around 10 years ago. I know we get annual vagrants...any chance some will stay?

 

[jurek]

Fastest will be probably some exotic parakeets and waterfowl. Lesser Canada Goose has sizable feral population in the Netherlands.

Some increasing north-eastern species may be possible. Blyth's Reed Warbler, River Warbler, Citrine Wagtail and Common Rosefinch, with time perhaps even Booted Warbler.

From the south: Black-winged Stilt - or has it bred already? Also Caspian Gull.

There are also some species which do not increase, but an odd pair may flip and nest in the UK for a year or two. Pure pair of Ring-billed Gulls, for example.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

There's also the reverse question: which currently fairly widespread species are we next going to lose as regular breeders in Britain? I fear these becoming extinct or rare passage visitors:
Wood Warbler
Whinchat
Spotted Flycatcher
Turtle Dove
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Willow Tit

We are on the way to loosing Corn Buntings as well!!

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

From the south: Black-winged Stilt - or has it bred already?

There are also some species which do not increase, but an odd pair may flip and nest in the UK for a year or two. Pure pair of Ring-billed Gulls, for example.

BWS has bred a few times already.

Maybe I'm imagining reading it somewhere but I'm sure RBG has bred on tis side of the Atlantic.

CB

 

[Richard Prior]

Only because I've just been watching them outside the window of my in-laws' house near Alicante in Spain.... how about red-rumped swallow? I read somewhere that they are colonising quite far north in France in recent years, and they seem very common indeed here now, having been quite uncommon when I first started coming here only around 10 years ago. I know we get annual vagrants...any chance some will stay?

Hi Lazza, I'm afraid you were mis-informed if you read that, the population in France of R r Swallow is only between 100 and 200 pairs, all down in the S.east, the odd breeding records from Ardèche and Drôme between 2005 and 2012 are as far north as it's reached, so it's got a long way to progress before it starts looking across the English Channel !
Melodious Warbler on the other hand...............

 

[Captain_of_Crunch]

BWS has bred a few times already.

Maybe I'm imagining reading it somewhere but I'm sure RBG has bred on tis side of the Atlantic.

CB

A Common x Ring-billed Gull pair in Northern Ireland.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Black-winged Stilt bred in Nottinghamshire and remains the logo of the County bird club.

Andy

 

[Jonathan Williams]

Interesting to note that Pygmy Cormorant is spreading and increasing, can anyone please fill me in on exactly where they are up to these days? It's something that I should keep my eyes open for on my local patch I guess.

My leftfield suggestion would be Moustached Warbler, doing a Cetti's, a more reasonable suggestion might be Baillon's Crake, although I think I remember that they may have bred in the past????

Melodious Warbler must be a good bet, they seem to have displaced Ictirine Warblers in Eastern France too.

I'm going to advance on Mr Prior's most northerly Red-rumped Swallow breeding record too, near Toul in Lorraine in ( I think ) 2006, is that the most northerly breeding ever?

 

[John Cantelo]

Interesting to note that Pygmy Cormorant is spreading and increasing, can anyone please fill me in on exactly where they are up to these days? It's something that I should keep my eyes open for on my local patch I guess.

My leftfield suggestion would be Moustached Warbler, doing a Cetti's, a more reasonable suggestion might be Baillon's Crake, although I think I remember that they may have bred in the past????

Melodious Warbler must be a good bet, they seem to have displaced Ictirine Warblers in Eastern France too.

I'm going to advance on Mr Prior's most northerly Red-rumped Swallow breeding record too, near Toul in Lorraine in ( I think ) 2006, is that the most northerly breeding ever?

I think that, since it's not even turned up yet, Pygmy Cormorant remains unlikely in the medium term. I'm even more dubious about Moustached Warbler whose 'spotty' distribution suggests it needs pretty specialised habitats and remains a vagrant to Portugal despite breeding in Spain. Melodious Warbler seems a better bet, but there are several species of small birds that seem to find the Channel too big an obstacle. As I commented before Bluethroat seems as good or better bet.

 

[Zheljko]

Red-rumped Swallow is still a "wow" species in most of Serbia, which is much further south, so they are not to be expected in Britain soon.
I thought Syrian Woodpecker has been present in Germany for a long time? It is basically an orchard species, particularly fond of Prunus trees for their pits.
Pallid Harrier, which was mentioned in the first few replies, is suddenly all over the place here. I have no idea whether it is breeding and how often, but there are always pictures in local bird-identification FB groups, with discussions about all three grey/brown harrier species on equal standing.

 

[Nutcracker]

Red-rumped Swallow is still a "wow" species in most of Serbia,

Surprising, as they're common in Bulgaria!

 

[Dortmundbirder]

Red-rumped Swallow is still a "wow" species in most of Serbia, which is much further south, so they are not to be expected in Britain soon.
I thought Syrian Woodpecker has been present in Germany for a long time? It is basically an orchard species, particularly fond of Prunus trees for their pits.
Pallid Harrier, which was mentioned in the first few replies, is suddenly all over the place here. I have no idea whether it is breeding and how often, but there are always pictures in local bird-identification FB groups, with discussions about all three grey/brown harrier species on equal standing.

We had the First record of Syrian Woodpecker in Germany this year. So sadly not present AT all here.
All records before hybrids could not be excluded.

Melodious Warbler is spreading in SW Germany. Increased numbers each year. Would be my candidate to turn up in UK as Well.

For pygmy cormorant i Do not know breading areas closer as lake neusiedel or northern italy. Nevertheless we have more birds visiting Germany in recent years.

 

[Jon Turner]

Looks as if Iberian Chiffchaff has slipped under everyone's radar: BBRC have accepted a record of 9 'on the Gower' in May last year....

 

[JeroenVanheuverswyn]

Squacco Heron seems to be having a first breeding attempt in Belgium.
Given how quick other herons have moved north, they could show up in UK soon as well.