What to look for

Don't know your house sparrow from your dunnock, or your pigeons from your doves? This page will help you identify the most common garden birds, as seen by you during Big Garden Birdwatch 2009.

Blackbird

Blue tit

Chaffinch

Coal tit

Collared dove

Dunnock

Goldfinch

Great tit

Greenfinch

House sparrow

Long-tailed tit

Magpie

Robin

Starling

Woodpigeon

What was seen in 2009?

In 2009, Big Garden Birdwatch was 30 years old. A record-breaking number of you helped us celebrate by counting the birds in your garden and sending us your results.

House sparrows topped the list for the sixth year running, while starlings and blackbirds came in second and third.

Listen to Sarah Kelly, Big Garden Birdwatch project manager, run through the results from 2009 - there were some old favourites, as well as a few surprises! You can also download the full results below.

If you want to hear more about the Big Garden Birdwatch, as well as our wider conservation work, why not take a listen to our monthly podcast?

County-by-county table of results PDF, 107Kb The top 10 birds for each county in the UK, as recorded in Big Garden Birdwatch 2009.

Big Garden Birdwatch 2009 full results PDF, 35Kb Over the Big Garden Birdwatch 2009 weekend 73 different species were seen, but what were they? Download the Big Garden Birdwatch 2009 full results to find out.

Still not sure?

Bird identifier What's that bird in your garden? If you're not sure, try our new online identifier. Tell us a bit about what you saw and we'll suggest some possible birds. More...

Bird behaviour Often it's the way a bird behaves that is the best clue to its identity, so if you're having trouble identifying a bird, think about where you saw it and what it was doing. More...