Alphabetical list of bird species

Here is an alphabetical list of the regularly occurring UK bird species in BirdFacts.

BirdFacts includes an entry for all species on the official British List maintained by the British Ornithologists’ Union. The list below provides an index to the common and widespread species that most birdwatchers can expect to encounter. If you are looking for information for one of the scarcer species, use the search box.

Select a letter... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y


A
	Aquatic Warbler Arctic Skua	Arctic Tern Avocet
Top B
	Barn Owl Barnacle Goose Barred Warbler Bar-tailed Godwit Bearded Tit Bee-eater Bewick's Swan Bittern Black Grouse Black Guillemot Black Redstart Black Tern	Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Black-necked Grebe Black-tailed Godwit Black-throated Diver Blue Tit Bluethroat Brambling Brent Goose Bullfinch Buzzard
Top C
	Canada Goose Capercaillie Carrion Crow Caspian Gull Cattle Egret Cetti’s Warbler Chaffinch Chiffchaff Chough Cirl Bunting Coal Tit Collared Dove Common Crossbill Common Gull	Common Redpoll Common Sandpiper Common Scoter Common Tern Coot Cormorant Corn Bunting Corncrake Crane Crested Tit Cuckoo Curlew Curlew Sandpiper
Top D
	Dartford Warbler Dipper Dotterel	Dunlin Dunnock

Top E
	Egyptian Goose	Eider
Top F
	Feral Pigeon Fieldfare Firecrest	Fulmar
Top G
	Gadwall Gannet Garden Warbler Garganey Glaucous Gull Glossy Ibis Goldcrest Golden Eagle Golden Oriole Golden Pheasant Golden Plover Goldeneye Goldfinch Goosander Goshawk Grasshopper Warbler Great Black-backed Gull Great Crested Grebe	Great Grey Shrike Great Northern Diver Great Skua Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Great White Egret Green Sandpiper Green Woodpecker Greenfinch Greenshank Grey Heron Grey Partridge Grey Phalarope Grey Plover Grey Wagtail Greylag Goose Guillemot
Top H
	Hawfinch Hen Harrier Herring Gull Hobby Honey-buzzard	Hooded Crow Hoopoe House Martin House Sparrow
Top I
	Iceland Gull	Icterine Warbler
Top J
	Jack Snipe Jackdaw	Jay
Top K
	Kestrel Kingfisher	Kittiwake Knot
Top L
	Lady Amherst’s Pheasant Lapland Bunting Lapwing Leach’s Petrel Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Redpoll Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Lesser Whitethroat Linnet Little Egret	Little Grebe Little Gull Little Owl Little Ringed Plover Little Stint Little Tern Long-eared Owl Long-tailed Duck Long-tailed Tit
Top M
	Magpie Mallard Mandarin Duck Manx Shearwater Marsh Harrier Marsh Tit Marsh Warbler	Meadow Pipit Mediterranean Gull Merlin Mistle Thrush Montagu’s Harrier Moorhen Mute Swan
Top N
	Nightingale Nightjar	Nuthatch
Top O
	Ortolan Bunting Osprey	Oystercatcher
Top P
	Parrot Crossbill Peregrine Falcon Pheasant Pied Flycatcher Pied Wagtail Pink-footed Goose	Pintail Pochard Ptarmigan Puffin Purple Sandpiper
Top Q
	Quail
Top R
	Raven Razorbill Red Grouse Red Kite Red-backed Shrike Red-breasted Merganser Red-legged Partridge Red-necked Grebe Red-necked Phalarope Redshank Redstart Red-throated Diver Redwing	Reed Bunting Reed Warbler Ring Ouzel Ringed Plover Ring-necked Parakeet Robin Rock Dove Rock Pipit Rook Roseate Tern Rough-legged Buzzard Ruddy Duck Ruff
Top S
	Sand Martin Sanderling Sandwich Tern Savi’s Warbler Scarlet Rosefinch Scaup Scottish Crossbill Sedge Warbler Serin Shag Shelduck Shore Lark Short-eared Owl Shoveler Siskin Skylark Slavonian Grebe	Smew Snipe Snow Bunting Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Spoonbill Spotted Crake Spotted Flycatcher Spotted Redshank Starling Stock Dove Stonechat Stone-curlew Storm Petrel Swallow Swift
Top T
	Taiga Bean Goose Tawny Owl Teal Temminck’s Stint Tree Pipit Tree Sparrow	Treecreeper Tufted Duck Tundra Bean Goose Turnstone Turtle Dove Twite
Top V
	Velvet Scoter
Top W
	Water Pipit Water Rail Waxwing Wheatear Whimbrel Whinchat White-fronted Goose White-tailed Eagle Whitethroat Whooper Swan	Wigeon Willow Tit Willow Warbler Woodlark Woodpigeon Wood Sandpiper Wood Warbler Woodcock Wren Wryneck
Top Y
	Yellow-legged Gull Yellow Wagtail	Yellowhammer Top