Rarity Description Species

The following species require a description. This list is kept under review. Decisions on whether species are kept on this list are affected by eg number of records, difficulty in identification, changes in occurrences etc:

Description Species
Cackling Goose	Black-winged Pratincole	Booted Eagle
Snow Goose	Ivory Gull	Gyr Falcon
Taiga Bean Goose	Bonaparte's Gull	Red-backed Shrike
Tundra Bean Goose	Ross's Gull	Daurian Shrike
Bewick's Swan	Laughing Gull	Great Grey Shrike
Ruddy Shelduck	Franklin's Gull	Woodchat Shrike
Baikal Teal	American Herring Gull	Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged Teal	Yellow-legged Gull	Golden Oriole
American Wigeon	Caspian Gull	Chough
Ferruginous Duck	Gull-billed Tern	Woodlark
Lesser Scaup	Elegant Tern	Shore Lark
King Eider	Sooty Tern	Short-toed Lark
Surf Scoter	Forster's Tern	Red-rumped Swallow
Bufflehead	Whiskered Tern	Western Bonelli's Warbler
Barrow's Goldeneye	White-winged Black Tern	Pallas's Warbler
Hooded Merganser	Little Auk	Radde's Warbler
Common Nighthawk	Pacific Diver	Melodious Warbler
Nightjar	White-billed Diver	Icterine Warbler
Alpine Swift	Wilson's Petrel	Siberian Chiffchaff
Pallid Swift	Black-browed Albatross	Barred Warbler
Great Spotted Cuckoo	Zino's/Fea's/Desertas Petrel	Lesser Whitethroat
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Cory's Shearwater	Western Subalpine Warbler
Black-billed Cuckoo	Great Shearwater	Firecrest
Pallas's Sandgrouse	Barolo Shearwater	White's Thrush
Turtle Dove	Balearic Shearwater	American Robin
Spotted Crake	Black Stork	Bluethroat
Crane	White Stork	Nightingale
Red-necked Grebe	Glossy Ibis	Red-flanked Bluetail
Stone-curlew	Bittern	Red-breasted Flycatcher
Black-winged Stilt	American Bittern	Citrine Wagtail
Avocet	Little Bittern	Richard's Pipit
Pacific Golden Plover	Night-heron	Tawny Pipit
Killdeer	Squacco Heron	Red-throated Pipit
Kentish Plover	Purple Heron	American Buff-bellied Pipit
Dotterel	Honey-buzzard	Water Pipit
Upland Sandpiper	Goshawk	Hawfinch
Broad-billed Sandpiper	Northern Harrier	Common Rosefinch
Stilt Sandpiper	Pallid Harrier	Two-barred Crossbill
Temminck's Stint	Montagu's Harrier	Corn Bunting
Baird's Sandpiper	Black Kite	Ortolan Bunting
White-rumped Sandpiper	Bald Eagle	Little Bunting
Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Rough-legged Buzzard	Rustic Bunting
Semipalmated Sandpiper	Scops Owl	Black-headed Bunting
Long-billed Dowitcher	Snowy Owl	White-throated Sparrow
Great Snipe	Little Owl	Red Fox Sparrow
Wilson's Snipe	Roller	Dark-eyed Junco
Wilson's Phalarope	Belted Kingfisher	Black-and-white Warbler
Red-necked Phalarope	Bee-eater	Baltimore Oriole
Spotted Sandpiper	Hoopoe	Common Yellowthroat
Lesser Yellowlegs	Wryneck	Scarlet Tanager
Greater Yellowlegs	Red-footed Falcon
Collared Pratincole	Hobby

Sub-species

sinensis Cormorant

Russian White-fronted Goose

Black Brant

Grey-bellied Brent

Lesser Black-backed Gull other than graellsii

Herring Gull other than argenteus and argentatus

Rock Pipit, sub-species littoralis

Yellow Wagtail other than flavissima

American Black Tern

Arctic Redpoll

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