Large dabbling ducks in late summer and autumn: Mallard, Gadwall, Pintail and Shoveler
Small dabbling ducks: Common, Green-winged, Cinnamon and Blue-winged Teals, and Garganey
Aythya ducks: Greater and Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck and hybrids*
Eiders: females, immatures and eclipse males
Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser
Manx, Balearic and Sooty Shearwaters
Storm, Leach’s and Wilson’s Petrels
Slavonian, Black-necked and Red-necked Grebes
Hen, Montagu’s, Pallid and Northern Harriers
Common, Rough-legged and Honey Buzzards
Golden and White-tailed Eagles
Falcons: Peregrine, Merlin, Hobby and Red-footed Falcon
Ringed, Little Ringed and Kentish Plovers*
Large plovers: Grey, European Golden, American Golden and Pacific Golden Plovers, and Dotterel
Little and Temminck’s Stints and Sanderling
The rare stints: Semipalmated, Western and Least Sandpipers, and Red-necked and Long-toed Stints
White-rumped and Baird’s Sandpipers
Dunlin, Curlew Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Knot
Ruff, Buff-breasted and Pectoral Sandpipers
Common and Spotted Sandpipers*
Common and Spotted Redshanks, Greenshank and Marsh Sandpiper
Arctic, Pomarine and Long-tailed Skuas
Immature Kittiwake and Little and Sabine’s Gulls
Herring, Lesser Black-backed and Great Black-backed Gulls
Yellow-legged and Caspian Gulls
Sandwich and Gull-billed Terns
Marsh terns: Black, White-winged Black, Whiskered and American Black Terns
Common, Arctic and Roseate Terns*
Long-eared and Short-eared Owls
Common, Alpine and Pallid Swifts
Red-backed, Daurian, Turkestan, Brown, Woodchat and Masked Shrikes
Great Grey, Lesser Grey and Steppe Grey Shrikes
Crows: Carrion Crow, Rook, Raven, Jackdaw and Chough
Skylark, Woodlark and Short-toed Lark
Locustella warblers: Grasshopper, Savi’s and River Warblers
Yellow-browed, Hume’s and Pallas’s Warblers
Wood Warbler and Western and Eastern Bonelli’s Warblers
Willow Warbler and the chiffchaffs
Unstreaked Acrocephalus warblers
Iduna warblers: Eastern, Booted, Sykes’s and Olivaceous Warblers
Hippolais warblers: Melodious and Icterine Warblers
Sylvia warblers: Common and Lesser Whitethroats and Subalpine, Moltoni’s, Garden and Barred Warblers
Common and Thrush Nightingales
European and Eastern Stonechats and Whinchat
Grey, Yellow, Eastern Yellow and Citrine Wagtails
Richard’s, Tawny and Blyth’s Pipits
Small pipits: Meadow, Tree, Red-throated, Olive-backed and Pechora Pipits
Rock, Water and Buff-bellied Pipits
Green finches: Greenfinch, Siskin and Serin
Brown finches: Linnet, Twite and Common Rosefinch
Lesser, Mealy and Arctic Redpolls
Common, Parrot, Scottish and Two-barred Crossbills
Reed, Little, Rustic and Lapland Buntings
* illustrations entirely or mainly by Laurel Tucker; the remainder are by Alan Harris