Birds at Wolfson

As part of an exercise to calculate the College's biodiversity, we set out to measure how many birds we could identify in the College - including, of course, the meadows we own across the Cherwell river, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. We armed ourselves with three things: first, BirdNET, a free smartphone app from Cornell University for birdsong identification, based upon geography and season; second, two excellent cameras, the Nikon D500 and Nikon P1000; and third, curiosity. 

Find below the full list of those birds we have recorded live at Wolfson. Some are everyday visitors to much of Oxford - blackbirds, robins, wrens, magpies. Others you find along our riverside, such as kingfishers, mute swans, black-headed gulls and moorhens. Others inhabit our meadows, such as our skylarks. Some are new immigrants, such as the pair of rose-ringed parakeets. Others use our woodland, such as the great spotted and green woodpeckers. High above us fly our red kites and kestrels. All are part of Wolfson's biodiversity.

Note:  BirdNET is a free smartphone app from Cornell University for birdsong identification, based upon geography and season. Click here for an explanatory video.

Photo credits: Anju Sharma