This year’s top ten for the UK is little changed from 2019, with the top three birds unchanged from last year. Once again, top spot is taken by the house sparrow, making it first for the seventeenth year running. There’s a little bit of shuffling at fourth and fifth, with the woodpigeon moving into fourth and, last year’s number four, the blackbird, dropping one spot to fifth.

There is one new entry to the top ten, with long-tailed tits flying into ninth position. The chaffinch meanwhile has dropped from number nine last year to number 11.