Checklist to the Birds of the Outer Hebrides

Checklist to the Birds of the Outer Hebrides The list contains 402 species and includes all the birds known to have occurred in a wild state up to September 9 th 2017. The species highlighted below have been recorded less than ten times between 1990 2015. Some of them are extreme vagrants to the UK. Species Year 1 Mute Swan 1 Whooper Swan 1 Bewick s Swan 1 Snow Goose 1 Greenland White-fronted Goose European White-fronted Goose 1 Lesser White-fronted Goose 1 Taiga Bean Goose Tundra Bean Goose 1 Pink-footed Goose 1 Greylag Goose 1 Canada Goose 1 Cackling Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 1 Pale-bellied Brent Goose Dark-bellied Brent Goose Black Brant 1 Shelduck 1 Mandarin 1 Wigeon 1 American Wigeon 1 Gadwall 1 Teal 1 Green-winged Teal 1 Mallard 1 Pintail 1 Garganey 1 Blue-winged Teal 1 Shoveler 1 Red-crested Pochard 1 Pochard 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 Tufted Duck 1 Scaup 1 Lesser Scaup 1 Eider 1 King Eider 1 Steller s Eider 1 Harlequin Duck 1 Long-tailed Duck 1 Common Scoter 1 Surf Scoter

1 Velvet Scoter 1 Bufflehead 1 Goldeneye 1 Hooded Merganser 1 Smew 1 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Goosander 1 Ruddy Duck 1 Red Grouse 1 Ptarmigan 1 Quail 1 Corncrake 1 Red-throated Diver 1 Black-throated Diver 1 Great Northern Diver 1 White-billed Diver 1 Black-browed Albatross 1 Fulmar 1 Fea s Petrel 1 Cory s Shearwater 1 Great Shearwater 1 Sooty Shearwater 1 Manx Shearwater 1 Balearic Shearwater 1 Wilson s Petrel 1 Storm Petrel 1 Leach s Petrel 1 Gannet 1 Cormorant 1 Shag 1 Bittern 1 American Bittern 1 Little Bittern 1 Night Heron 1 Squacco Heron 1 Cattle Egret 1 Little Egret 1 Great White Egret 1 Grey Heron 1 Purple Heron 1 Black Stork 1 White Stork 1 Glossy Ibis 1 Spoonbill 1 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Little Grebe 1 Great Crested Grebe 1 Red-necked Grebe 1 Slavonian Grebe 1 Black-necked Grebe

1 Honey Buzzard 1 Black Kite 1 Red Kite 1 White-tailed Eagle 1 Marsh Harrier 1 Hen Harrier 1 Montagu s Harrier 1 Goshawk 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Buzzard 1 Rough-legged Buzzard 1 Golden Eagle 1 Osprey 1 Kestrel 1 Red-footed Falcon 1 Merlin 1 Hobby 1 Eleonora s Falcon 1 Gyr Falcon 1 Peregrine 1 Water Rail 1 Spotted Crake 1 Sora 1 Moorhen 1 Coot 1 American Coot 1 Crane 1 Oystercatcher 1 Black-winged Stilt 1 Avocet 1 Stone Curlew 1 Collared Pratincole 1 Black-winged Pratincole 1 Little-ringed Plover 1 Ringed Plover 1 Semipalmated Plover 1 Western Sandpiper 1 Killdeer 1 Kentish Plover 1 Greater Sandplover 1 Dotterel 1 American Golden Plover 1 Pacific Golden Plover 1 Golden Plover 1 Grey Plover 1 Lapwing 1 Knot 1 Sanderling 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Little Stint

1 Temminck s Stint 1 Least Sandpiper 1 White-rumped Sandpiper 1 Baird s Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Curlew Sandpiper 1 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Purple Sandpiper 1 Dunlin 1 Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper 1 Ruff 1 Jack Snipe 1 Snipe 1 Great Snipe 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Woodcock 1 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Hudsonian Whimbrel 1 Whimbrel 1 Curlew 1 Upland Sandpiper 1 Common Sandpiper 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Green Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Spotted Redshank 1 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Greenshank 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Marsh Sandpiper 1 Wood Sandpiper 1 Redshank 1 Turnstone 1 Wilson s Phalarope 1 Red-necked Phalarope 1 Grey Phalarope 1 Pomarine Skua 1 Arctic Skua 1 Long-tailed Skua 1 Great Skua 1 Ivory Gull 1 Sabine s Gull 1 Kittiwake 1 Bonaparte s Gull 1 Black-headed Gull 1 Little Gull 1 Ross s Gull 1 Laughing Gull

1 Franklin s Gull 1 Mediterranean Gull 1 Common Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Herring Gull 1 Yellow-legged Gull 1 American Herring Gull 1 Iceland Gull 1 Glaucous Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Little Tern 1 Gull-billed Tern 1 Caspian Tern 1 Whiskered Tern 1 Black Tern 1 White-winged Black Tern 1 American Black Tern 1 Sandwich Tern 1 Common Tern 1 Roseate Tern 1 Arctic Tern 1 Guillemot 1 Brunnich s Guillemot 1 Razorbill 1 Black Guillemot 1 Little Auk 1 Puffin 1 Pallas s Sandgrouse 1 Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon 1 Stock Dove 1 Wood Pigeon 1 Collared Dove 1 Turtle Dove 1 Mourning Dove 1 Great Spotted Cuckoo 1 Cuckoo 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Barn Owl 1 Scops Owl 1 Snowy Owl 1 Tawny Owl 1 Long-eared Owl 1 Short-eared Owl 1 Nightjar 1 Swift 1 Alpine Swift 1 White-throated Needletail 1 Chimney Swift

1 Kingfisher 1 Bee-eater 1 Roller 1 Hoopoe 1 Wryneck 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Golden Oriole 1 Brown Shrike 1 Isabelline Shrike 1 Red-backed Shrike 1 Long-tailed Shrike 1 Lesser Grey Shrike 1 Great Grey Shrike 1 Woodchat Shrike 1 Magpie 1 Chough 1 Jackdaw 1 Rook 1 Carrion Crow 1 Hooded Crow 1 Raven 1 Goldecrest 1 Firecrest 1 Blue Tit 1 Great Tit 1 Coal Tit 1 Long-tailed Tit 1 Calandra Lark 1 Short-toed Lark 1 Woodlark 1 Skylark 1 Shore Lark 1 Sand Martin 1 Purple Martin 1 Swallow 1 House Martin 1 Red-rumped Swallow 1 Arctic Warbler 1 Greenish Warbler 1 Pallas s Warbler 1 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Dusky Warbler 1 Wood Warbler 1 Chiffchaff Siberian Chiffhcaff 1 Iberian Chiffchaff 1 Willow Warbler 1 Blackcap

1 Garden Warbler 1 Barred Warbler 1 Lesser Whitethroat 1 Whitethroat 1 Western Subalpine Warbler Eastern Subalpine Warbler 1 Moltoni s Warbler 1 Sardinian Warbler 1 Pallas s Grasshopper Warbler 1 Grasshopper Warbler 1 Cetti s Warbler 1 Booted Warbler 1 Icterine Warbler 1 Melodious Warbler 1 Sedge Warbler 1 Paddyfield Warbler 1 Blyth s Reed Warbler 1 Marsh Warbler 1 Reed Warbler 1 Great Reed Warbler 1 Waxwing 1 Treecreeper Northern Treecreeper 1 Hebridean Wren St. Kilda Wren 1 Starling 1 Rose-coloured Starling 1 Dipper 1 White s Thrush 1 Hermit Thrush 1 Swainson s Thrush 1 Grey-cheeked Thrush 1 Veery 1 Ring Ouzel 1 Blackbird 1 Eye-browed Thrush 1 Fieldfare 1 Song Thrush 1 Redwing 1 Mistle Thrush 1 American Robin 1 Spotted Flycatcher 1 Robin 1 Red-flanked Bluetail 1 Thrush Nightingale 1 Nightingale 1 Bluethroat 1 Red-breasted Flycatcher 1 Collared Flycatcher 1 Pied Flycatcher

1 Black Redstart 1 Redstart 1 Rock Thrush 1 Whinchat 1 Siberian Stonechat 1 Stonechat 1 Wheatear 1 Black-eared Wheatear 1 Dunnock 1 House Sparrow 1 Tree Sparrow 1 Yellow Wagtail Blue-headed Wagtail Grey-headed Wagtail 1 Citrine Wagtail 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Pied Wagtail White Wagtail 1 Richard s Pipit 1 Tawny Pipit 1 Olive-backed Pipit 1 Tree Pipit 1 Pechora Pipit 1 Meadow Pipit 1 Red-throated Pipit 1 Rock Pipit Scandinavian Rock Pipit 1 Buff-bellied Pipit 1 Chaffinch 1 Brambling 1 Greenfinch 1 Goldfinch 1 Siskin 1 Linnet 1 Twite 1 Common Redpoll 1 Hornemann s Redpoll Coue s Arctic Redpoll 1 Two-barred Crossbill 1 Common Crossbill 1 Parrot Crossbill 1 Trumpeter Finch 1 Common Rosefinch 1 Bullfinch 1 Hawfinch 1 Evening Grosbeak 1 Snow Bunting 1 Lapland Bunting 1 Scarlet Tanager 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Pine Bunting 1 Yellowhammer 1 Ortolan Bunting 1 Rustic Bunting 1 Little Bunting 1 Yellow-breasted Bunting 1 Reed Bunting 1 Black-headed Bunting 1 Corn Bunting 1 Bobolink 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Ovenbird 1 Tennessee Warbler 1 Hooded Warbler 1 American Redstart 1 Wilson s Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler Please note that some species that have not been definitely recorded in a wild state have been omitted e.g. Ruddy Shelduck whilst others now extinct e.g. Great Auk have also not been included.