Denbighshire / Sir Ddinbych
vice county 50
Bird-recording in Wales is based largely on the Watsonian vice-county system. Denbighshire VC50 includes the eastern half of Conwy unitary authority, most of Denbighshire UA and most of Wrexham UA. The southernmost part of the vice-county is in modern-day Powys and records are shared with Montgomeryshire.
County Bird Recorder
Mike Pollard. newalesbirdrecords@outlook.com.
County Bird Report
Denbighshire is included in the North-East Wales Bird Report, produced by the Clwyd Bird Recording Group (affiliated to the Welsh Ornithological Society). Annual reports for 1975-2022 are available online from Cofnod. Wrexham Birdwatchers Group produces an annual report of birds in the Wrexham Unitary Authority. See Bird Clubs.
Bird Club
Clwyd Ornithological Society meets monthly through the winter in Rhuddlan (see vice county Flintshire). Wrexham Birdwatchers Group meets on the first Friday of each month in Gresford. Contact: Marian Williams, 10 Lake View, Gresford, Wrexham LL12 8PU. Tel: 01978 854633. The group has a Facebook page, with recent sightings and details of forthcoming events.
British Trust for Ornithology
The BTO splits the old county of Clwyd into east and west. See this map for the boundary. Clwyd West (roughly Denbighshire north and west of Ruthin) Mel ab Owain Tel: 01745 826528 Email: melabowain@gmail.com Clwyd East (southeast Denbighshire and Flintshire) Anne Brenchley Tel: 01352 750118 Email: annebrenchley@imsab.myzen.co.uk
Recent Sightings
North Wales Bird & Wildlife sightings and Wrexham Birdwatchers Group Facebook pages.
Local Site Information
Best Birdwatching Site: North Wales, by Alan Davies and Owen Roberts, features 70 sites in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire. Published by Buckingham Press (2007). ISBN 9780 95503 394 0. RRP £15.95. Breeding Bird Atlas: The Breeding Birds of North Wales, edited by Anne Brenchley, Geoff Gibbs, Rhion Pritchard and Ian Spence. A tetrad atlas of the breeding birds of five vice-counties of North Wales, from fieldwork conducted in 2008-12. Published by Liverpool University Press (2013). ISBN 978-1-84631-858-0. RRP £45.