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York Species List & gallery

Species in the York recording area since 1966

This is a list of species recorded in the YOC area since 1966. Regular breeding birds are marked B and occasional/former breeders (B). Regular winter visitors are marked W and regular passage migrants P; while regular non-breeding summer visitors are marked S. Brackets indicate subspecies or birds of dubious origin. Rare and scarce species at national, county and local levels are marked in the list with three, two or one asterisks as follows: *** British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC), ** Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union Rarities Committee (YNURC), * YOC Recorder.

Greylag Goose B

**Taiga Bean Goose W

Pink-footed Goose P

*Tundra Bean Goose W

*White-fronted Goose

*Bewick’s Swan W

Egyptian Goose B

(Ruddy Shelduck)

Mandarin Duck B

***Blue-winged Teal

**American Wigeon

*Green-winged Teal

*Red-crested Pochard

**Ring-necked Duck

***Ferruginous Duck

*Eider

*Long-tailed Duck

*Red-breasted Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Red-legged Partridge B

Grey Partridge B

(Golden Pheasant)

*Red-throated Diver

*Black-throated Diver

*Great Northern Diver

*Storm-petrel

*Leach’s Petrel

*Fulmar

*Manx Shearwater

*Red-necked Grebe

Great Crested Grebe B

*Slavonian Grebe

*Black-necked Grebe (B)

***Black Stork

*Bittern

**Purple Heron

***Squacco Heron

*Gannet

*Shag

**Honey Buzzard

*Goshawk B

Marsh Harrier (B)

**Montagu’s Harrier

**White-tailed Eagle

**Rough-legged Buzzard

*Spotted Crake (B)

*Corncrake (B)

*Stone Curlew

Oystercatcher B

**Black-winged Stilt

Golden Plover W

**American Golden Plover

Ringed Plover B

Little Ringed Plover B

***Kentish Plover

Dotterel

*Bar-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit (B)

*Turnstone

Ruff (B)

*Curlew Sandpiper

*Temminck’s Stint

*Sanderling

Dunlin W & P

*Little Stint P

**White-rumped Sandpiper

**Buff-breasted Sandpiper

*Pectoral Sandpiper

*Red-necked Phalarope

*Grey Phalarope

Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper P & W

**Lesser Yellowlegs

Wood Sandpiper P

*Spotted Redshank P

***Collared Pratincole

*Sabine’s Gull

Black-headed Gull B

*Little Gull

***Franklin’s Gull

*Mediterranean Gull

Common Gull W & P

**Ring-billed Gull

Great Black-backed Gull W

**(Kumlien’s Gull)

Herring Gull W, P & B

Yellow-legged Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull S & P

**Caspian Tern

*Sandwich Tern

*Little Tern

*Roseate Tern

***Whiskered Tern

**White-winged Black Tern

*Black Tern

*Arctic Skua

*Pomarine Skua

*Little Auk

*Puffin

‘Feral Pigeon’ B

Collared Dove B

*Long-ear e d Owl B

*Short-eared Owl (B)

*Nightjar B

**Alpine Swift

***Pallid Swift

*Bee-eater

*Wryneck

*Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (B)

Great Spotted Woodpecker B

Green Woodpecker B

**Red-footed Falcon

*(Ring-necked Parakeet) (B)

*Red-backed Shrike

***Lesser Grey Shrike

*Great Grey Shrike

**Woodchat Shrike

*Golden Oriole

Magpie B

Rook B

*Hooded Crow

**Red-rumped Swallow

*Cetti’s Warbler

Long-tailed Tit B

*Wood Warbler

*Yellow-browed Warbler

**Dusky Warbler

Willow Warbler B

**(Siberian Chiffchaff)

Sedge Warbler B

***Savi’s Warbler

**Marsh Warbler

Grasshopper Warbler B

Garden Warbler B

*Barred Warbler

Lesser Whitethroat B

**(Siberian Lesser Whitethroat)

**Rose-coloured Starling

Fieldfare W & P

Song Thrush B, W & P

Mistle Thrush B

Spotted Flycatcher B

*Nightingale (B)

*Pied Flycatcher (B)

*Red-breasted Flycatcher

*Black Redstart (B)

Dipper (B)

House Sparrow B

Yellow Wagtail B

*(Blue-headed Wagtail)

(White Wagtail)

*Richard’s Pipit

*Common Rosefinch

*Common (Mealy) Redpoll

Lesser Redpoll (B)

***Arctic Redpoll

***‘Coues’s’ Arctic Redpoll

***Pine Bunting

*Lapland Bunting

*Snow Bunting