Bird Year List 2022

1.      Great Crested Grebe
2.      Little Grebe
3.      Slavonian Grebe
4.      Red-throated diver
5.      Great Northern Diver
6.      Black-throated Diver
7.      Gannet
8.      Fulmar
9.      Shag
10.    Cormorant 
11.    Spoonbill
12.    Glossy Ibis
13.    Grey Heron
14.    Bittern
15.    Little Egret
16.    Great Egret
17.    Canada Goose
18.    Greylag Goose
19.    White-fronted Goose
20.    Pink-footed Goose
21.    Barnacle Goose
22.    Egyptian Goose
23.    Mute Swan
24.    Shelduck
25.    Shoveler
26.    Gadwall 
27.    Pochard
28.    Wigeon 
29.    Mallard 
30.    Pintail
31.    Teal
32.    Garganey
33.    Tufted Duck
34.    Common Scoter
35.    Velvet Scoter
36.    Long-tailed Duck
37.    Eider
38.    Red-breasted Merganser
39.    Smew
40.    Goosander
41.    Feral/Rock Dove 
42.    Woodpigeon
43.    Stock Dove
44.    Collared Dove
45.    Water Rail
46.    Moorhen
47.    Coot
48.    Avocet
49.    Ruff
50.    Lapwing
51.    Curlew
52.    Whimbrel
53.    Oystercatcher
54.    Golden Plover
55.    Black-tailed Godwit
56.    Ringed Plover
57.    Little Ringed Plover
58.    Dunlin
59.    Turnstone
60.    Common Redshank
61.    Spotted Redshank
62.    Greenshank
63.    Green Sandpiper
64.    Wood Sandpiper
65.    Common Sandpiper
66.    Snipe
67.    Jack Snipe
68.    Black-headed Gull
69.    Common Gull
70.    Great Black-backed Gull 
71.    Herring Gull
72.    Lesser Black-backed Gull
73.    Caspian Gull
74.    Kittiwake
75.    Common Tern
76.    Sandwich Tern
77.    Razorbill
78.    Guillemot
79.    Black Guillemot
80.    Puffin
81.    Golden Eagle
82.    White-tailed Eagle
83.    Common Buzzard
84.    Osprey
85.    Marsh Harrier
86.    Red Kite
87.    Sparrowhawk
88.    Goshawk
89.    Kestrel
90.    Ptarmigan
91.    Red Grouse
92.    Black Grouse
93.    Capercaillie
94.    Pheasant
95.    Red-legged Partridge
96.    Grey Partridge
97.    Little Owl
98.    Gt Spotted Woodpecker
99.    Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 
100.  Green Woodpecker
101.  Common Treecreeper
102.  Nuthatch
103.  Ring-necked Parakeet 
104.  Skylark
105.  Woodlark
106.  Magpie
107.  Jackdaw
108.  Jay
109.  Carrion Crow
110.  Hooded Crow
111.  Rook
112.  Raven
113.  Coal Tit
114.  Blue Tit 
115.  Great Tit
116.  Marsh Tit
117.  Long-tailed Tit
118.  Crested Tit
119.  Bearded Tit
120.  Cetti’s Warbler
121.  Chiffchaff
122.  Blackcap
123.  Common Whitethroat
124.  Lesser Whitethroat
125.  Sedge Warbler
126.  Reed Warbler
127.  Dartford Warbler
128.  Willow Warbler
129.  Grasshopper Warbler
130.  Goldcrest
131.  Firecrest
132.  Wren
133.  Dipper 
134.  Swallow
135.  Sand Martin
136.  House Martin
137.  Starling
138.  Ring Ouzel
139.  Blackbird
140.  Redwing
141.  Fieldfare
142.  Song Thrush
143.  Mistle Thrush
144.  Robin
145.  Stonechat
146.  Whinchat
147.  Northern Wheatear
148.  House Sparrow
149.  Tree Sparrow
150.  Dunnock
151.  Pied Wagtail
152.  Grey Wagtail
153.  Yellow Wagtail 
154.  Meadow Pipit
155.  Tree pipit
156.  Rock Pipit
157.  Chaffinch
158.  Hawfinch 
159.  Goldfinch
160.  Greenfinch
161.  Bullfinch
162.  Siskin
163.  Lesser Redpoll
164.  Brambling
165.  Linnet
166.  Crossbill
167.  Yellowhammer
168.  Corn Bunting
169. Reed Bunting

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