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Full Species List

Use this list if you would like to record all of the species that you see during your Migration Watch visits

 
Red-throated Diver Avocet Meadow Pipit
Black-throated Diver Stone Curlew Rock Pipit
Great Northern Diver Little Ringed Plover Water Pipit
Little Grebe Ringed Plover Yellow Wagtail

Great Crested Grebe

 Kentish Plover Grey Wagtail
Red-necked Grebe Dotterel Pied Wagtail
Slavonian Grebe Golden Plover Waxwing
Black-necked Grebe Grey Plover Dipper
Fulmar Lapwing Wren
Manx Shearwater Knot Dunnock
Storm Petrel Sanderling Robin
Gannet Little Stint Nightingale
Cormorant Temminck's Stint Bluethroat
Shag Curlew Sandpiper Black Redstart
Bittern Purple Sandpiper Redstart
Little Egret Dunlin Whinchat
Grey Heron Ruff Stonechat
Spoonbill Jack Snipe Wheatear
Mute Swan Snipe Ring Ouzel
Bewick's Swan Woodcock Blackbird
Whooper Swan Black-tailed Godwit Fieldfare
Pink-footed Goose Bar-tailed Godwit Song Thrush
White-fronted Goose Whimbrel Redwing
Greylag Goose Curlew Mistle Thrush
Canada Goose Spotted Redshank Cetti's Warbler
Barnacle Goose Redshank Grasshopper Warbler
Brent Goose Marsh Sandpiper Sedge Warbler
Egyptian Goose Greenshank Reed Warbler
Shelduck Green Sandpiper Dartford Warbler
Mandarin Wood Sandpiper Lesser Whitethroat
Wigeon Common Sandpiper Whitethroat
Gadwall Turnstone Garden Warbler
Teal Red-necked Phalarope Blackcap
Mallard Pomarine Skua Wood Warbler
Pintail Arctic Skua Chiffchaff
Garganey Long-tailed Skua Willow Warbler
Shoveler Great Skua Goldcrest
Red-crested Pochard Mediterranean Gull Firecrest
Pochard Little Gull Spotted Flycatcher
Tufted Duck Sabine's Bunting Pied Flycatcher
Scaup Black-headed Gull Bearded Tit
Eider Common Gull Long-tailed Tit
Long-tailed Duck Lesser Black-backed Gull Marsh Tit
Common Scoter Herring Gull Willow Tit
Velvet Scoter Iceland Gull Crested Tit
Goldeneye Glaucous Gull Coal Tit
Smew Great Black-backed Gull Blue Tit
Red-breasted Merganser Kittiwake Great Tit
Goosander Sandwich Tern Nuthatch
Ruddy Duck Roseate Tern Treecreeper
Honey Buzzard Common Tern Golden Oriole
Red Kite Arctic Tern Red-backed Shrike
White-tailed Eagle Little Tern Jay
Marsh Harrier Black Tern Magpie
Hen Harrier Guillemot Chough
Montagu's Harrier Razorbill Jackdaw
Goshawk Black Guillemot Rook
Sparrowhawk Puffin Carrion/Hooded Crow
Buzzard Rock Dove Raven
Golden Eagle Stock Dove Starling
Osprey Woodpigeon House Sparrow
Kestrel Collared Dove Tree Sparrow
Merlin Turtle Dove Chaffinch
Hobby Ring-necked Parakeet Brambling
Peregrine Cuckoo Serin
Red Grouse Barn Owl Greenfinch
Ptarmigan Little Owl Goldfinch
Black Grouse Tawny Owl Siskin
Capercaillie Long-eared Owl Linnet
Red-legged Partridge Short-eared Owl Twite
Grey Partridge Nightjar

Redpoll
Quail Swift Crossbill
Pheasant Kingfisher Scottish Crossbill
Golden Pheasant Green Woodpecker Common Rosefinch
Lady Amherst's Pheasant Great Spotted Woodpecker Bullfinch
Water Rail Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Hawfinch
Spotted Crake Woodlark Snow Bunting
Corncrake Skylark Yellowhammer
Moorhen Shore Lark Cirl Bunting
Coot Sand Martin Ortolan Bunting
Crane Swallow Reed Bunting
Oystercatcher House Martin Corn Bunting
Black-winged Stilt Tree Pipit  

Rare Summer Visitors

The following rare summer visitors are available from a drop-down menu on the form. If you are lucky enough to see a species that is not on the list please email migwatch.organiser@bto.org

 
Cory's Shearwater Baird's Sandpiper Savi's Warbler
Great Shearwater Pectoral Sandpiper Aquatic Warbler
Sooty Shearwater Broad-billed Sandpiper Marsh Warbler
Mediterranean Shearwater Buff-breasted Sandpiper Great Reed Warbler
Leach's Petrel Great Snipe Icterine Warbler
Little Bittern Long-billed Dowitcher Melodious Warbler
White Stork Grey Phalarope Subalpine Warbler
Night Heron Ring-billed Gull Barred Warbler
Great White Egret Caspian Tern Greenish Warbler
Purple Heron Lesser Crested Tern Arctic Warbler
Bean Goose Whiskered Tern Pallas's Warbler
Lesser White-fronted Goose White-winged Black Tern Yellow-browed Warbler
Snow Goose Little Auk Radde's Warbler
American Wigeon Snowy Owl Dusky Warbler
Ring-necked Duck Alpine Swift Red-breasted Flycatcher
Ferruginous Duck Bee-eater Penduline Tit
King Eider Hoopoe Lesser Grey Shrike
Surf Scoter Wryneck Great Grey Shrike
Black Kite Short-toed Lark Woodchat Shrike
Rough-legged Buzzard Richard's Pipit Arctic Redpoll
Red-footed Falcon Tawny Pipit Lapland Bunting
Gyrfalcon Olive-backed Pipit Rustic Bunting
Collared Pratincole Pechora Pipit Little Bunting
White-rumped Sandpiper Red-throated Pipit  

 

 

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