Species List

Wildlife records for Cotton End Park, Long Buckby, 2009 onwards.

Birds

Barn Owl
Blackbird
Blackcap
Black-headed Gull
Blue Tit
Brambling
Bullfinch
Canada Goose
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Common Buzzard
Common Gull
Common Snipe
Cormorant
Crossbill
Crow
Cuckoo
Curlew
Dunnock
Fieldfare
Gadwall
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Grasshopper Warbler
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Great White Egret
Green Sandpiper
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Grey Partridge
Grey Plover
Grey Wagtail
Hawfinch
Herring Gull
Hobby
House Martin
House Sparrow
Jack snipe
Jackdaw
Jay
Kestrel
Lapwing
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Whitethroat
Linnet
Little Owl
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Marsh Harrier
Meadow Pipit
Mistle Thrush
Moorhen
Nuthatch
Peregrine
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Raven
Red kite
Red-legged Partridge
Redpoll
Redstart
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Reed Warbler
Ring Ouzel
Robin
Rook
Sand Martin
Sedge Warbler
Siskin
Skylark
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Spotted Flycatcher
Starling
Stock Dove
Stonechat
Swallow
Swift
Tawny Owl
Teal
Tree Pipit
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Tufted Duck
Wheatear
Whinchat
Whitethroat
Willow Warbler
Woodcock
Woodpigeon
Woodlark
Wren
Yellow Wagtail
Yellowhammer

Butterflies & Moths

Beautiful Hook-tip
Blood Vein
Brimstone
Brown Argus
Cinnabar
Comma
Common Blue
Common Swift
Copper Underwing
Elephant Hawk-moth
Essex skipper
Fivespot Burnet
Gatekeeper
Green-veined White
Heart and dart
Holly Blue
July Belle
Large skipper
Large White
Large Yellow Underwing
Marbled White
Meadow Brown
Mother Shipton
Orange-tip
Painted Lady
Peacock
Pheonix
Plume Moth
Purple Hairstreak
Red Admiral
Ringlet
Setacous Hebrew Character
Silver Y
Small Copper
Small Skipper
Small Tortoiseshell
Small White
Small Yellow Underwing
Speckled Wood
White-letter Hairstreak
Yellow Shell

(incomplete)

Dragonflies

Azure Damsel
Banded Demoiselle
Beautiful Demoiselle
Black-tailed Skimmer
Blue-tailed Damsel
Broad-bodied chaser
Brown Hawker
Common Blue Damsel
Common Darter
Emerald Damsel
Emperor
Four-spotted Chaser
Large Red Damsel
Migrant Hawker
Red-eyed Damsel
Ruddy Darter
Small Red-eyed Damsel
Southern Hawker
Willow Emerald Damsel

Orthoptera

Common Field Grasshopper
Common Green Grasshopper
Lesser Marsh Grasshopper
Long-winged Cone-head
Meadow Grasshopper
Roesels Bush-cricket
Speckled Bush-cricket

Mammals

Badger
Bank Vole
Brown Rat
Fox
Grey Squirrel
Hare
Muntjac Deer
Polecat
Rabbit
Roe Deer
Short-tailed Field Vole
Stoat
Water Vole
Wood Mouse
Common Pipistrelle


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