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The results of many of the Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme surveys are available in more detail in annual reports. The annual newsletter, GooseNews, is also available here. Please select a report or publication from the list below to view the reports available. If you are interested in a particular report not listed here, please contact the Species Monitoring Unit at WWT Slimbridge. Data from these surveys are available for external use. Please visit the data requests page if you are interested in making a request. Newsletter GooseNews Survey reports Mute Swan Census International Swan Census Icelandic-breeding Goose Census Greenland White-fronted Goose Census Northwest Scotland Greylag Goose Survey/Scottish Greylag Goose Survey International Census of Greenland Barnacle Geese Dark-bellied Brent Goose Age Assessment Naturalised Goose Survey European Cormorant Census Other reports Waterbird Review Series The State of the UK’s Birds State of Birds in Wales Birds of Conservation Concern GooseNews This is the annual newsletter of WWTs Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme. It contains reports from monitoring activities, information on forthcoming surveys, and other information of relevance and interest to those involved with goose and swan monitoring in the UK. 
Mute Swan Census reports The first Mute Swan Census was undertaken in Britian in spring 1955/56 to determine the size of the British population during the breeding season. Further censues were conducted in 1978, 1983, 1990 and 2002. Campbell, B. 1960. The Mute Swan census in England and Wales, 1955-56. Bird Study 7: 208-223. Ogilvie, MA. 1981. The Mute Swan in Britain, 1978. Bird Study 28: 87-106. Ogilvie, MA. 1986. The Mute Swan Cygnus olor in Britain 1983. Bird Study 33: 121-137.
International Swan Census reports The International Swan Census aims to estimate population size and identify important wintering sites of Bewick's and Whooper Swans. The first census was in 1986 and it is conducted every five years. Beekman, JH, S Dirksen & TH Slagboom. 1985. Population size and breeding success of Bewick's Swans wintering in Europe in 1983-4. Wildfowl 36: 5-12. Salmon, DG & JM Black. 1986. The January 1986 Whooper Swan census in Britain, Ireland and Iceland. Wildfowl 37: 172-174. Kirby, J, EC Rees, O Merne & A Gar�arsson. 1992. International census of Whooper Swans in Britain, Ireland and Iceland: January 1991. Wildfowl 43: 20-26. Beekman, JH. 1997. Censuses of NW European Bewick's Swan population January 1990 and 1995. Swan Specialist Group Newsletter 6: 7-9. Cranswick, PA, JM Bowler, S Delany, Ó Einarsson, A Garðarsson, JG McElwaine, EC Rees & JH Wells. 1997. Whooper Swans wintering in Britain, Ireland and Iceland: International Census, January 1995. Wildfowl 47: 17-30. Colhoun, K, JG McElwaine, PA Cranswick, I Enlander & OJ Merne. 2000. Numbers and distribution of Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's C. columbianus bewickii Swans in Ireland: results of the International Swan Census, January 2000. Irish Birds 6: 485-494. Cranswick, PA, K Colhoun, O Einarsson, JG McElwaine, A Gardarsson, MS Pollitt & EC Rees. 2002. The Status and Distribution of the Icelandic Whooper Swan population: Results of the International Whooper Swan Census 2000. In Rees, EC, SL Earnst & JC Coulson (eds.). Proceedings of the Fourth International Swan Symposium, 2001. Waterbirds 25, Special Publication 1: 37-48. Crowe, O, JG McElwaine, J Worden, GA Watson, A Walsh & H Boland. 2005. Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's C. columbianus bewickii Swans in Ireland: results of the International Swan Census, January 2005. Irish Birds 7: 483-488.
Worden, J, PA Cranswick, O Crowe, G McElwaine, & EC Rees.
2006. Numbers and distribution of Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus
bewickii wintering in Britain and Ireland: results of the International
Censuses, January 1995, 2000 and 2005. Wildfowl 56:3-22.
Worden, J, O Crowe, O Einarsson, A Gardarsson, G McElwaine & EC Rees. 2009. Population size and breeding success of the Icelandic Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus: results of the January 2005 International Census. Wildfowl 59:17-40.
Boland, H, JG McElwaine, G Henderson, C Hall, A Walsh & O Crowe. 2010. Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's C. columbianus bewickii Swans in Ireland: results of the International Swan Cenus January 2010. Irish Birds 9: 1-10.
Icelandic-breeding Goose Census reports Started in the UK in 1960, the Icelandic-breeding Goose Census now includes over 120 sites internationally. It aims to estimate population sizes of Icelandic-breeding geese and identify important wintering areas.
Greenland White-fronted Goose Census reports Started in the winter of 1982/83, the Greenland White-fronted Goose Census aims to assess population size and reproductive success, and identify important wintering sites for Greenland White-fronted Geese in the UK and Ireland.
Northwest Scotland Greylag Goose Survey and Scottish Greylag Goose Survey reports The first Northwest Scotland Greylag Goose Survey was conducted in 1997 to assess the population size and distribution of the Northwest Scotland (NWS) population. Since then, the NWS and Re-established populations have increased in abundance and distribution, and the extent to which the two populations now overlap is unknown. In order to assess this overlap the Scottish Greylag Goose Survey was developed, the first of which was undertaken in summer 2008 and 2009. Mitchell, C, D Patterson, P Boyer, P Cunningham, R MacDonald, E Meek, JD Okill & F Symonds 2000. The summer status and distribution of Greylag Geese in north and west Scotland. Scottish Birds 21:69-77.
Mitchell, C, L Griffin, M Trinder & J Newth. 2010. The population size of breeding greylag geese Anser anser in Scotland in 2008/09. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 371.
International Census of Greenland Barnacle Geese reports Using ground and aerial counts, the International Census of Greenland Barnacle Geese aims to assess the population size and distribution, and important wintering sites of Greenland Barnacle Geese in the UK and Ireland. It began in 1959 and is carried out approximately every five years.
Dark-bellied Brent Goose Age Assessment reports Age assessments made at wintering and stop-over sites are used to determine the annual reproductive success of goose populations. Dark Bellied brent Goose age assessments have been carried out at many UK wintering sites every year since 1985. The age assessment report was discontinued in 2009. Detailed results for 2008/09 onwards will be posted on the latest results page for Dark-bellied Brent Goose and summarised in GooseNews.
Naturalised Goose Survey reports The Naturalised Goose Survey aims to assess population size, distribution and productivity of all non-native geese and re-established Greylag Geese. The first survey was in 1991 and it is conducted every nine years.
European Cormorant Census reports Organised by Wetland International's Cormorant Research Group, the European Cormorant Census was undertaken in January 2003 to assess the species' wintering numbers and distribution. Results from the Great Britain survey, co-ordinated by WWT, are presented here. Click here to
display pdf: Cormorant Roost Survey 2003
Waterbird Review Series The Waterbird Review Series brings together up to four decades of data and knowledge from the long-term monitoring programmes of swan and migratory goose populations that winter in Britain and Ireland. The State of the UK’s Birds The State of the UK’s Birds is an annual overview of the fortunes of wild birds in the United Kingdom, and it’s Overseas Territories.
State of Birds in Wales The State of birds in Wales is an annual report giving an overview of the status of Birds in Wales, from those that are still widespread and familiar to scarce birds of high conservation priority in Wales, the UK and Europe.
Birds of Conservation Concern The population status of birds in the UK is regularly assessed through a collaboration of the UK's leading governmental and non-governmental conservation organisations. The current review (BoCC 3), the fourth since 1990, used a range of criteria to place a total of 246 regularly occurring species onto one of three lists: Red, Amber or Green. This categorisation provides an indication of the priority that should be given to each species when allocating resources for conservation action. Click here to
display pdf: Birds of Conservation
Concern 3 (summary report)
A full paper was published in British Birds Eaton MA, AF Brown, DG Noble, AJ Musgrove, R Hearn, NJ Aebischer, DW Gibbons, A Evans & RD Gregory. 2009. Birds of Conservation Concern 3: the population status of birds in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. British Birds 102:296-341. Click here to display pdf: Birds of Concervation Concern 3 (Eaton et. al. 2009)
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