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Snowy Owl – Comhachag-gheal
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Systematic List
Geese
Brent Goose – Gèadh-got
Pale-bellied Brent Goose
Dark-bellied Brent Goose
Black Brant
[Grey-bellied Brant]
Red-breasted Goose
Canada Goose – Gèadh-dubh
Canada Goose
North American Canada Goose
Barnacle Goose
Cackling Goose
Snow Goose
Greylag Goose
Taiga Bean Goose
Pink-footed Goose
Tundra Bean Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose – Gèadh-bhlàr
Greenland White-fronted Goose
European White-fronted Goose
Lesser White-fronted Goose
Swans
Mute Swan
Bewick’s Swan
Whooper Swan
Ducks
Shelduck
[Ruddy Shelduck]
Mandarin Duck
Garganey
Blue-winged Teal
Shoveler
Gadwall
Wigeon
American Wigeon
Mallard
Pintail
Teal
Green-winged Teal
Red-crested Pochard
[Redhead]
Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
Tufted Duck
Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Steller’s Eider
King Eider
Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
Velvet Scoter
Common Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Goldeneye
Smew
Hooded Merganser
Goosander
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Game Birds
Red Grouse
Ptarmigan
Black Grouse
Quail
Nightjars, swifts, cuckoos
Nightjar
White-throated Needletail
Chimney Swift
Alpine Swift
Common Swift
Pallid Swift
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Cuckoo
Sandgrouse
Pallas’s Sandgrouse
Doves and pigeons
Rock Dove
Stock Dove
Woodpigeon
Turtle Dove
Oriental Turtle Dove
Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Rails and crakes
Water Rail
Corncrake
Sora
Spotted Crake
Moorhen
Coot
American Coot
Allen’s Gallinule
[Western Swamphen]
Crane
Grebes
Little Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Slavonian Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Waders
Stone-curlew
Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Avocet
Lapwing
Grey-headed Lapwing
Golden Plover
Pacific Golden Plover
American Golden Plover
Grey Plover
Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Killdeer
Kentish Plover
Greater Sand Plover
Dotterel
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black-tailed Godwit
Turnstone
Knot
Ruff
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Temminck’s Stint
Sanderling
Dunlin
Purple Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Little Stint
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Woodcock
Jack Snipe
Great Snipe
Snipe
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Grey Phalarope
Common Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Redshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Greenshank
Greater Yellowlegs
Oriental Pratincole
Black-winged Pratincole
Gulls
Kittiwake
Ivory Gull
Sabine’s Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Ross’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Common Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Iceland Gull
Iceland Gull
Kumlien’s / Thayer’s Gull
Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Azorean Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Terns and skuas
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Sandwich Tern
Little Tern
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Black Tern – Steàrnag-dhubh
Black Tern
American Black Tern
Great Skua
Pomarine Skua
Arctic Skua
Long-tailed Skua
Auks
Little Auk
Brünnich’s Guillemot
Guillemot
Razorbill
Great Auk
Black Guillemot
Puffin
Divers
Red-throated Diver
Black-throated Diver
Great Northern Diver
White-billed Diver
Albatross, Fulmar, shearwaters, petrels
Wilson’s Petrel
Black-browed Albatross
Storm Petrel
Leach’s Petrel
Fulmar
Zino’s/Fea’s/Desertas Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
Barolo / Boyd’s / Audubon’s Shearwater
Herons, Egrets, Gannet, Cormorants
Black Stork
White Stork
Gannet
Cormorant
Shag
Glossy Ibis
Spoonbill
Bittern
American Bittern
Little Bittern
Night-heron
Squacco Heron
Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Great White Egret
Little Egret
Raptors
Osprey
Honey-buzzard
Golden Eagle
Sparrowhawk
Goshawk
Marsh Harrier
Hen Harrier
Northern Harrier
Montagu’s Harrier
Red Kite
Black Kite
White-tailed Eagle
Rough-legged Buzzard
Buzzard
Owls
Barn Owl
Scops Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Snowy Owl
Tawny Owl
Hoopoe, Roller, Kingfisher, Bee-eaters, Woodpeckers
Hoopoe
Roller
Kingfisher
Bee-eater
Wryneck
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Falcons
Kestrel
Red-footed Falcon
Eleonora’s Falcon
Merlin
Hobby
Gyr Falcon
Peregrine
Kingbird, shrikes, vireo, oriole
Eastern Kingbird
Brown Shrike
Red-backed Shrike
Daurian Shrike
Long-tailed Shrike
Lesser Grey Shrike
Great Grey Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
Red-eyed Vireo
Golden Oriole
Crows
Magpie
Chough
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
Raven
Waxwing, tits
Waxwing
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Bearded Tit
Larks
Woodlark
Skylark
Shore Lark – Uiseag-adharcach
Shore Lark
American Horned Lark
Short-toed Lark
Calandra Lark
Swallows, martins
Sand Martin
Purple Martin
Swallow
House Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
Warblers, Long-tailed Tit, crests
Cetti’s Warbler
Long-tailed Tit
Wood Warbler
Western Bonelli’s Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Pallas’s Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff – Caifean
Common Chiffchaff
[Scandinavian Chiffchaff]
Siberian Chiffchaff
Iberian Chiffchaff
Greenish Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Paddyfield Warbler
Blyth’s Reed Warbler
Reed Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Booted Warbler
Melodious Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Barred Warbler
Lesser Whitethroat – Gealan-coille-beag
Lesser Whitethroat
Siberian Lesser Whitethroat
Sardinian Warbler
Subalpine Warbler Group
Western Subalpine Warbler
Moltoni’s Subalpine Warbler
Eastern Subalpine Warbler
Whitethroat
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Firecrest
Goldcrest
Wren, Treecreeper, starlings
Wren
Hebridean Wren
St. Kilda Wren
Treecreeper
Rose-coloured Starling
Starling
Thrushes
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Grey-cheeked Thrush
Veery
White’s Thrush
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Redwing
Blackbird
Eyebrowed Thrush
Fieldfare
Ring Ouzel
American Robin
Flycatchers, Robin, nighingales, chats
Spotted Flycatcher
Robin
Bluethroat – Òranaiche
Red-spotted Bluethroat
White-spotted Bluethroat
Thrush Nightingale
Nightingale
Red-flanked Bluetail
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Pied Flycatcher
Collared Flycatcher
Black Redstart
Redstart
Rock Thrush
Whinchat
Stonechat
Siberian Stonechat
Wheatear – Brù-gheal
Northern Wheatear
Greenland Wheatear
Western Black-eared Wheatear
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
Dipper, sparrows, Dunnock
Dipper – Gobha-dubh-an-uisge
White-throated Dipper
Black-bellied Dipper
Tree Sparrow
House Sparrow
Dunnock
Wagtails & pipits
Yellow Wagtail
Blue-headed Wagtail
British Yellow Wagtail
Grey-headed Wagtail
Ashy-headed Wagtail
Eastern Yellow Wagtail
Citrine Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
Pied / White Wagtail – Breac-an-t-sìl
Pied Wagtail
White Wagtail
Richard’s Pipit
Tawny Pipit
Meadow Pipit
Tree Pipit
Olive-backed Pipit
Pechora Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Buff-bellied Pipit
Rock Pipit – Gabhagan
Eurasian Rock Pipit
Scandinavian Rock Pipit
Finches
Chaffinch
Brambling
Evening Grosbeak
Hawfinch
Bullfinch – Corcan-coille
British Bullfinch
Northern Bullfinch
Trumpeter Finch
Common Rosefinch
Greenfinch
Twite
Linnet
Redpoll
Common Redpoll
Mealy Redpoll
Northwestern Redpoll
Lesser Redpoll
Arctic Redpoll
Coues’s Arctic Redpoll
Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll
Parrot Crossbill
Common Crossbill
Two-barred Crossbill
Goldfinch
Serin
Siskin
Buntings, American vagrants
Lapland Bunting
Snow Bunting
Corn Bunting
Yellowhammer
Pine Bunting
Ortolan Bunting
Little Bunting
Rustic Bunting
Yellow-breasted Bunting
Black-headed Bunting
Reed Bunting
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Bobolink
Baltimore Oriole
Ovenbird
Tennessee Warbler
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Category D Species
Greater Flamingo
Saker Falcon
Red-headed Bunting
Category E Species
Black Swan
Bar-headed Goose
Emporer Goose
Muscovy Duck
Wood Duck
Cinnamon Teal
Grey Partridge
Pheasant
Red-legged Partridge
Indian Peafowl
Northern Bobwhite
Chillean Flamingo
Eagle Owl
Lanner Falcon
Pallas’s Rosefinch
Species not included in the systematic list
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