Yellowhammer

A fairly common breeding resident and an uncommon passage migrant. 

The BBS results show a 56% decrease since 1994 and the chart below shows the annual percentage fluctuations. 

The largest count is of 300 at Marshfield on 1st January and 3rd February, 2016

Wheeler (1874) said it was an ‘abundant resident’, Charbonnier (1899) ‘resident, very common’ and Davis (1947) ‘resident, common and widely distributed’.