Birds of the Hull Area online

This website contains the full text of the Birds of Hull Area book (2002), which documented the birdlife in and around the city of Kingston-upon-Hull, in East Yorkshire, up to the new Millennium. Birds of the Hull Area was originally published by Kingston Press with a print run of 500. Those copies quickly sold out, but the demise of the publisher meant that a second print run was never forthcoming.

To mark 10 years since publication, in 2012 I made almost all of the content of the book freely available in these pages. The panel on the left contains headings of the species groups. The Recording area page outlines the extent of the area covered in the book. It is also important to bear in mind that the information is now 20 years old, and so is increasingly out of date. For instance, several new species have been recorded in/around the city since the book was published (Red-rumped Swallow, Ring-necked Duck), some have been lost as breeding species (Willow Tit and Corn Bunting) and others gained (Peregrine falcon), and others that were very rare are now regular (Little Egret, Avocet).

Important copyright info: copyright of all content in these pages still lies with the author of the book and this website. Please feel free to use any text from the species pages under 'fair usage' copyright rules (acknowledged quotes are fine, but no cutting and pasting of entire entries please, especially for commercial usage). If you reproduce any of the content elsewhere, please reference the book as the source: Broughton, Richard K (2002) Birds of the Hull Area. Kingston Press. Hull, UK.

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1902039149

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1902039145