RSPB British Birdfinder by Marianne Taylor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Introduction

Finding and watching Common, scarce and rare How to use this book The Birdwatcher’s Code

SPECIES ACCOUNTS

Bewick’s Swan

Whooper Swan Mute Swan Greylag Goose Bean Goose Pink-footed Goose White-fronted Goose Canada Goose Egyptian Goose Barnacle Goose Brent Goose Shelduck

Watching Winter Waterfowl

Mandarin Duck Wigeon Gadwall Teal Pintail Garganey Shoveler Mallard Tufted Duck Pochard Scaup Red-crested Pochard Ruddy Duck Eider Long-tailed Duck Common Scoter Velvet Scoter Goldeneye Smew Red-breasted Merganser Goosander Red Grouse Ptarmigan Black Grouse Capercaillie Red-legged Partridge

The Breeding Season

Grey Partridge Quail Pheasant Lady Amherst’s Pheasant Golden Pheasant Red-throated Diver Black-throated Diver Great Northern Diver Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Red-necked Grebe Slavonian Grebe Black-necked Grebe Fulmar Cory’s Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Balearic Shearwater Manx Shearwater Storm Petrel Wilson’s Petrel Leach’s Petrel Gannet

Seawatching

Cormorant Shag Bittern Cattle egret Great White Egret Little Egret Grey Heron Purple Heron White Stork Glossy Ibis Spoonbill Honey-buzzard Red Kite White-tailed Eagle Marsh Harrier Hen Harrier Montagu’s Harrier Goshawk Sparrowhawk Common Buzzard

Watching Birds of Prey

Rough-legged Buzzard Golden Eagle Osprey Kestrel Merlin Hobby Peregrine Falcon Water Rail Spotted Crake Corncrake Moorhen Coot Crane Great Bustard Oystercatcher Avocet Stone-curlew Little Ringed Plover Ringed Plover Kentish Plover Dotterel Golden Plover Grey Plover

Found A Rare Bird?

Lapwing Knot Sanderling Little Stint Temminck’s Stint Pectoral Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Ruff Jack Snipe Common Snipe Woodcock Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Whimbrel Curlew Spotted Redshank Common Redshank Greenshank Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Turnstone Red-necked Phalarope Grey Phalarope Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua Long-tailed Skua Great Skua Mediterranean Gull Little Gull Sabine’s Gull Black-headed Gull Herring Gull Common Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Yellow-legged Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Gull Kittiwake Little Tern

Seabird Colonies

Black Tern Sandwich Tern Common Tern Roseate Tern Arctic Tern Guillemot Razorbill Black Guillemot Little Auk Puffin Rock Dove Stock Dove Woodpigeon Collared Dove Turtle Dove Ring-necked Parakeet Cuckoo Barn Owl Little Owl Tawny Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Nightjar Swift Kingfisher Bee-eater Hoopoe Wryneck Green Woodpecker Great Spotted Woodpecker Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Woodlark Skylark

Woodland Birdwatching

Shore Lark Sand Martin Swallow House Martin Tree Pipit Meadow Pipit Rock Pipit Water Pipit Yellow Wagtail Grey Wagtail Pied/White Wagtail Waxwing Dipper Wren Dunnock Robin Bluethroat Nightingale Black Redstart Redstart Whinchat Stonechat Wheatear Ring Ouzel

Autumn Passerine Migration

Blackbird Song Thrush Fieldfare Redwing Mistle Thrush Cetti’s Warbler Grasshopper Warbler Savi’s Warbler Aquatic Warbler Sedge Warbler Marsh Warbler Reed Warbler Blackcap Garden Warbler Barred Warbler Lesser Whitethroat Whitethroat Dartford Warbler Pallas’s Warbler Yellow-browed Warbler Wood Warbler Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Goldcrest Firecrest Spotted Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher Bearded Tit Long-tailed Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Crested Tit Coal Tit

Garden Birds

Willow Tit Marsh Tit Nuthatch Treecreeper Golden Oriole Red-backed Shrike Great Grey Shrike Jay Magpie Jackdaw Chough Rook Raven Carrion/Hooded Crows Starling Rose-coloured Starling Tree Sparrow House Sparrow Chaffinch Brambling Greenfinch Goldfinch Siskin Linnet Twite Common Redpoll Lesser Redpoll Common Crossbill Scottish Crossbill Parrot Crossbill Common Rosefinch Bullfinch Hawfinch

Exploring the Country

Lapland Bunting Snow Bunting Yellowhammer Cirl Bunting Reed Bunting Corn Bunting

Glossary Acknowledgements Recommended reading

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