Wetland Bird Survey for the the Swale included Elmley & Swale NNRs for February 2020
Posted 28th February 2020
| Shellness | Swale fresh | Harty | Capel | Spitend | Elmley | 2020 | |
| Mute Swan | 24 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 45 | ||
| Great-crested Grebe | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Little Grebe | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Coot | 80 | 1 | 96 | 490 | 667 | ||
| Moorhen | 13 | 13 | |||||
| Water rail | 0 | ||||||
| Grey Heron | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | ||
| Little Egret | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| Bittern | 0 | ||||||
| Spoonbill | 0 | ||||||
| Great White Heron | 0 | ||||||
| Cattle Egret | 0 | ||||||
| Cormorant | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||||
| Pale-bellied Brent | 1 | ||||||
| Brent Goose | 230 | 260 | 50 | 1330 | 81 | 1951 | |
| Greylag Goose | 220 | 120 | 60 | 28 | 428 | ||
| Canada Goose | 6 | 65 | 43 | 114 | |||
| Pink-footed Goose | 0 | ||||||
| Tundra Bean Goose | 0 | ||||||
| White-fronted Goose | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Shelduck | 60 | 26 | 4 | 111 | 300 | 501 | |
| Mallard | 70 | 177 | 623 | 532 | 1402 | ||
| Teal | 20 | 2 | 42 | 311 | 60 | 435 | |
| Pintail | 6 | 100 | 106 | ||||
| Gadwall | 36 | 12 | 48 | ||||
| Garganey | 0 | ||||||
| Shoveller | 16 | 76 | 46 | 138 | |||
| Tufted Duck | 46 | 46 | |||||
| Pochard | 27 | 27 | |||||
| Wigeon | 1536 | 7460 | 8996 | ||||
| Avocet | 0 | ||||||
| Oystercatcher | 2800 | 2 | 86 | 17 | 2905 | ||
| Curlew | 270 | 260 | 1 | 156 | 14 | 701 | |
| Whimbrel | 0 | ||||||
| Bar-tailed Godwit | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Black-tailed Godwit | 1 | 366 | 367 | ||||
| Common Snipe | 0 | ||||||
| Grey Plover | 30 | 1 | 55 | 1 | 87 | ||
| Golden Plover | 0 | ||||||
| Ringed Plover | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Lapwing | 100 | 4 | 12 | 2103 | 1288 | 3507 | |
| Greenshank | 0 | ||||||
| Redshank | 50 | 9 | 32 | 22 | 113 | ||
| Green Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Wood Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Common Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Knot | 200 | 51 | 1400 | 1651 | |||
| Dunlin | 15 | 10 | 340 | 365 | |||
| Curlew Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Ruff | 0 | ||||||
| Little Stint | 0 | ||||||
| Turnstone | 45 | 15 | 5 | 65 | |||
| Eider | 0 | ||||||
| Spot Shank | 0 | ||||||
| Sanderling | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Great Northern Diver | 0 | ||||||
| Purple Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 3669 | 1159 | 107 | 359 | 7072 | 12375 | 24740 |
