12 Jun 2026 Results of the 2026 Big Farmland Bird count

Despite poor weather conditions this spring, over 1,200 submissions were made from across the UK to this year’s Big Farmland Bird Count organised by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.

A total of 275,024 birds were counted over 292,828 hectares of farmland. This year 67% of farms surveyed were in an agri-environment scheme, with 64% providing supplementary feeding for birds on their farm. In total, 69,222 red-listed birds were counted including 34 different species, with the most abundant of those being starling (25,306), lapwing (19,198), and fieldfare (15,816).

Read all the results from the count on this page.