Project S.W.A.N.

Station trends

Avocet - Swaffham

Wildlife activity, monitoring coverage and site notes for this S.W.A.N. station.

Period

12 Aug 2026 — 09 Nov 2026

Limited coverage

77

Species

+16.7% vs previous

10,268

Detections

-51.2% vs previous

29.94

Detections / hour

-50.5%

343

Monitoring hours

15.9% coverage

22

First station records

Within this period

Daily activity

Detections over time

Bars are contextualised by coverage below.

Good coverageFairLimited/estimated

Comparison

Previous 90 days

Species66
Detections21,024
Per monitored hour60.5
Coverage labelLimited coverage

Species community

Most active species

Community change

What changed?

Appeared in this period

+ Stock Dove

+ Common Grasshopper-Warbler

+ Black-headed Gull

+ Northern Wheatear

+ Chaffinch

+ Common Redshank

+ European Golden-Plover

+ Coal Tit

Not redetected

– Mute Swan

– Cetti's Warbler

– European Starling

– Eurasian Oystercatcher

– Eurasian Nightjar

– Whinchat

– Eurasian Green Woodpecker

– Common Sandpiper

Not redetected does not mean absent. Weather, season, behaviour, recorder coverage and detection confidence can all affect observations.

Habitat timeline

Interventions and site work

S.W.A.N. can establish a baseline, mark habitat work and compare the following period without claiming automatic causation.

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Bird feeder installed

Complete

Started 28 Jul 2026 · Feeding change

A new bird feeder has been installed providing fresh water, multiple different foods.

Methodology

Recording effort is considered before trends are shown.

Heartbeat coverage is used for new data. Older periods may use a conservative lower-bound estimate based on detection activity. Comparisons marked limited or indicative should not be treated as proof of ecological cause and effect.