The Observatory
Annual Reports
The Dungeness Bird Observatory Annual Reports contain not only information about birds, but details of other fauna and flora found in the area.

The 2006 Report with photographs throughout was published in November 2007 and costs £7.50 (inc p&p).

Please contact us for availability of earlier reports (Telephone: 01797-321309, E-mail: dungeness.obs@tinyonline.co.uk) or send a cheque for £3.50 per report to David Walker, Dungeness Bird Observatory, 11 RNSSS Cottages, Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Kent TN29 9NA.


Back Issues

REPORT YEAR

HIGHLIGHTS at DBO

ADDITIONAL PAPERS/NOTES

2006

Night Heron, Purple Heron, Bee-eater, Radde's Warbler, Isabelline Shrike. 

2005

Laughing Gull, Dusky Warbler, Short-toed Treecreeper, Trumpeter Finch

2004

Black Kite, Crane, Caspian Gulls, Pallid Swift, Subalpine Warbler, Pallas's Warblers and Short-toed Treecreeper.

2003

Audouin's Gull, Caspian Gulls, Pallas's Warblers, Penduline Tits and Short-toed Treecreeper.

Audouin's Gull at Dungeness; Paddyfield Warbler at Dungeness.

2002

Black Stork, White Stork, unusual skuas, Caspian Gulls, Bee-eater, Red-rumped Swallow, Tawny Pipit, Great Grey Shrike, Ortolan Bunting.

 

2001

Bonaparte's Gull, Pallid Swift, Dusky Warbler, Turkestan Shrike, Short-toed Treecreeper, Desert Finch.

 

2000

Surf Scoter, Short-toed Eagle, Black Kite, Laughing Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Brunnich’s Guillemot, Woodchat Shrike.

The Pyralid moth Vitula biviella in the Dungeness area in 2000.

1999

White-billed Divers, Surf Scoter, Black Kite, Blyth’s Reed Warbler, Dusky Warblers.

Aphrodes duffieldi: a subterranean British endemic leafhopper; Vitula biviella in the Dungeness area.

1998

White Stork, Red-rumped Swallow, Pallas’s Warbler, Short-toed Treecreeper, Woodchat Shrike,

Ant-lion Eurolean nostra at DBO

1997

Red-throated Pipit, Rose-coloured Starling,

The biology of the planthopper Cixius remotus.

1996

White-billed Diver, Melodious Warblers, Pallas’s Warblers, Woodchat Shrikes.

First British record of the moth Chloantha hyperici at Dungeness; A record of the Carpenter Bee Xylocopa violacea at Dungeness; The biology of the Grassland Froghopper Neophilaenus campestris

1995

Laughing Gull, Sardinian Warbler, Woodchat Shrike, Wallcreeper,

The Sallow froghopper Agrophora salicina at Dungeness

1994

Thrush Nightingales, Pallas’s Warblers,

Fungi of the recording area

1993

White-billed Diver, Cattle Egret, Iceland Gulls, Blyth’s Reed Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Short-toed Treecreepers, Woodchat Shrike,

Descriptions of White-billed Diver, Cattle Egret, Black-throated Thrush, Blyth’s Reed Warbler, Short-toed Treecreepers.

The Sussex Emerald moth survey.

1992

Black Terns, Collared Flycatcher.

Descriptions of Gyr Falcon and Collared Flycatcher

1991

Black Stork, Desert Lesser Whitethroat, Greenish Warbler, Short-toed Treecreeper, 

The Yellow-legged Gull at Dungeness; Lesser Whitethroat showing characters of the race minula; Southern overshoots at Dungeness, May 29th-June 4th 1991; The Sussex Emerald

1990

Night Herons, Caspian Tern, Little Auks, Red-rumped Swallows, Short-toed Treecreeper, Little Bunting,

Spring Seabird, Wildfowl and Wader Passage at Dungeness;

Short-toed Treecreeper and Little Bunting descriptions.

1989

Bonaparte’s Gull, White-cheeked Tern, Lesser Crested Tern, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Thrush Nightingale, Radde’s Warbler, Bonelli’s Warbler.