The Lancashire & Cheshire Fauna Society publish the annual Bird Report for the counties of Lancashire and Merseyside north of the River Mersey. Records are sent into the recorder (currently Steve White) and they disseminate them to section editors whose role it is to summarise these sightings into a readable and informative systematic list.
All of this is done by volunteers, the only costs generally being printing and distribution of the reports. Past copies of these reports are available as pdfs for non-commercial use.
In 2008, we published the latest county avifauna “Birds of Lancashire and North Merseyside”.
The following species require a description as they are rare in the county. National rarities can be submitted via the recorder to the BBRC.
| Taiga Bean Goose | |
| Black Brant | |
| American Wigeon | |
| Ring-necked Duck | |
| Surf Scoter | |
| Black Grouse | |
| White-billed Diver | |
| Corys Shearwater | |
| Great Shearwater | |
| Sooty Shearwater | |
| Balearic Shearwater | |
| Wilsons Petrel | |
| Night Heron | |
| Purple Heron | |
| Glossy Ibis | |
| Red-necked Grebe | |
| Honey Buzzard | |
| Black Kite | |
| White-tailed Eagle | |
| Montagus Harrier | |
| Rough-legged Buzzard | |
| Golden Eagle | |
| Spotted Crake | |
| Corncrake | |
| Common Crane | |
| Stone Curlew | |
| Black-winged Stilt | |
| American Golden Plover | |
| Temmincks Stint | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | |
| Long-tailed Skua | |
| Little Auk | |
| White-winged Black Tern | |
| Roseate Tern | |
| Sabines Gull | |
| Ring-billed Gull | |
| Caspian Gull | |
| Turtle Dove | |
| Nightjar | |
| Alpine Swift | |
| Hoopoe | |
| Bee-eater | |
| Wryneck | |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | |
| Red-footed Falcon | |
| Golden Oriole | |
| Red-backed Shrike | |
| Woodchat Shrike | |
| Chough | |
| Woodlark | |
| Shore Lark | |
| Short-toed Lark | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | |
| Penduline Tit | |
| Marsh and Willow Tit | (out of normal range) |
| Pallass Warbler | |
| Raddes Warbler | |
| Dusky Warbler | |
| Siberian Chiffchaff | |
| Greenish Warbler | |
| Arctic Warbler | |
| Blyths Reed Warbler | |
| Marsh Warbler | |
| Melodious Warbler | |
| Icterine Warbler | |
| Barred Warbler | |
| Dartford Warbler | |
| Red-flanked Bluetail | |
| Rose-coloured Starling | |
| Nightingale | |
| Bluethroat | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | |
| Citrine Wagtail | |
| Grey-headed Wagtail | |
| Richards Pipit | |
| Olive-backed Pipit | |
| Common Rosefinch | |
| Common (Mealy) Redpoll | |
| Serin | |
| Lapland Bunting | |
| Cirl Bunting | |
| Ortolan Bunting | |
| Little Bunting |