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Birdline Midlands covers Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.
Birdline Midlands messages have a carefully structured content. First you will hear today's news, followed by directions to less obvious sites. Then will come highlights from the previous day and earlier in the week. Sometimes extremely rare National occurrences will be featured at the end of the current days news.
Phone your birds sightings into out 24 HOUR HOTLINE NUMBER 01905 - 754154. This is for incoming messages only. All relevant information will be made available to County Recorders.

PLEASE

• Call in news as quickly as possible so that we can update the line.
• Leave you name, address and telephone number
• Speak clearly giving county, site name and six figure ordnance survey map reference where possible.

Regular callers to the hotline can make use of the Birdline Midlands FREEPHONE system. Leave your telephone number on our enquiries line for details.

  BIRDLINE MIDLANDS is interested in your sightings, especially of:-

• All regional and national rarities
• Uncommon species e.g. divers, scarce grebes, sea duck etc
• harriers, Osprey, white-winged gulls, shrikes, Waxwings, Snow Bunting etc
• Early and late dates for migrants
• Influxes of Crossbills
• All passage and winter waders
• Out of normal range sightings: e.g. Seabirds inland; petrels, Shag, skuas, auks, shearwaters, Kittiwake etc
• All terns and interesting gulls
• Large finch flocks e.g Brambling, Siskin and Redpoll
• Unusual concentrations of birds
• Anything else you feel is interesting

Birdline Midlands will not normally publicise information on rare breeding birds or of birds at sensitive sites. If you are unsure please call the Birdline Midlands enquiry number 01386 462727. All information will be treated with the strictest confidence.

Birdline Midlands has an additional service number 09068 664409. Information featured on this line may include further details on particular rarities that may be present in the region. During the period June - August this line will in future feature MIDLANDS DRAGONFLY AND DAMSELFLIES. This line will focus on one or two particular species per week rather than giving arbitrary sightings ad hoc.