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British birds

Chapter 221: INDEX.
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A comprehensive natural-history survey of the birdlife of Britain that pairs a technical chapter on avian anatomy and classification with accessible species accounts. Individual entries describe identification features, plumage variations, song, habitat preferences, breeding habits, migration and geographical distribution, and are supported by color plates and illustrations. Field observations highlight seasonal and local behaviors and interactions with landscape, while comparative anatomical discussion clarifies relationships among groups. The combination of scientific explanation and firsthand notes is intended to inform identification and deepen appreciation of native birds.

INDEX.

  • Aberdevine, 127
  • Acanthyllis caudacuta, 179
  • Accentor collaris, 86
  • —— modularis, 84
  • Accipiter nisus, 206
  • Acredula caudata, 92
  • —— rosea, 90
  • Acrocephalus aquaticus, 82
  • —— palustris, 82
  • —— phragmitis, 80
  • —— streperus, 79
  • —— turdoïdes, 82
  • Aëdon galectodes, 79
  • Ægialitis cantiana, 287
  • —— curonica, 288
  • —— hiaticula, 287
  • —— vocifera, 288
  • Alauda arborea, 176
  • —— arvensis, 174
  • —— cristata, 178
  • Alca torda, 345
  • Alcedo ispida, 188
  • Alpine accentor, 86
  • American bittern, 226
  • —— goshawk, 216
  • —— hawk-owl, 199
  • —— stint, 317
  • —— wigeon, 238
  • Ampelis garrulus, 114
  • Anas boscas, 239
  • Anser albifrons, 230
  • —— brachyrhynchus, 229
  • —— cinereus, 227
  • —— segetum, 228
  • Anthus campestris, 113
  • —— obscurus, 112
  • —— pratensis, 108
  • —— richardii, 115
  • —— spipoletta, 113
  • —— trivialis, 110
  • Aquatic warbler, 82
  • Aquila chrysaëtus, 204
  • —— clanga, 216
  • Archibuteo lagopus, 216
  • Arctic tern, 317
  • Ardea alba, 226
  • —— bubulcus, 226
  • —— cinerea, 223
  • —— gazetta, 226
  • —— purpurea, 226
  • —— ralloïdes, 226
  • Ardetta minuta, 226
  • Asio brachyotus, 197
  • —— otus, 196
  • Astur palumbarius, 216
  • Athene noctua, 199
  • Avocet, 316
  • Auk, little, 351
  • Baillon’s crake, 278
  • Barnacle goose, 232
  • Barn-owl, 193
  • Barred warbler, 70
  • —— woodpecker, 183
  • Barrow’s goldeneye, 246
  • Bar-tailed godwit, 316
  • Bartram’s sandpiper, 317
  • Bean-goose, 228
  • Bearded titmouse, 89
  • Bee-eater, 190
  • Belted kingfisher, 189
  • Bernicla brenta, 230
  • —— leucopsis, 232
  • Bernicla ruficollis, 227
  • Bewick’s swan, 234
  • Big plover, 282
  • Bittern, American, 226
  • —— common, 224
  • —— little, 226
  • Black-bellied dipper, 88
  • Black-billed cuckoo, 193
  • Blackbird, 47
  • Blackcap, 67
  • Black crow, 167
  • —— eagle, 204
  • —— grouse, 273
  • —— guillemot, 350
  • Black-headed bunting, 154
  • —— gull, 328
  • Black kite, 216
  • —— redstart, 59
  • —— scoter, 253
  • —— stork, 226
  • —— swift, 179
  • Black-tailed godwit, 316
  • Black tern, 323
  • Black-throated diver, 341
  • —— thrush, 51
  • —— wheatear, 54
  • Black-winged stilt, 316
  • Blue rock, 262
  • Bluethroat, 59
  • Blue titmouse, 97
  • Blue-winged teal, 244
  • Bonaparte’s sandpiper, 317
  • Bonxie, 331
  • Botaurus lentiginosus, 226
  • —— stellaris, 224
  • Brambling, 137
  • Brent goose, 230
  • Broad-billed sandpiper, 317
  • Brown owl, 198
  • Brünnich’s guillemot, 351
  • Bubo ignavus, 199
  • Buff-backed heron, 226
  • Buff-breasted sandpiper, 317
  • Buffel-headed duck, 246
  • Buffon’s skua, 333
  • Bullfinch, 142
  • Bulweria columbina, 339
  • Bulwer’s petrel, 339
  • Bunting, black-headed, 154
  • —— cirl, 150
  • —— corn, 146
  • —— Lapland, 154
  • —— little, 154
  • —— ortolan, 154
  • —— reed, 151
  • —— snow, 152
  • —— yellow, 148
  • Bustard, great, 281
  • —— little, 281
  • —— Macqueen’s, 281
  • Butcher-bird, 114
  • Buteo vulgaris, 202
  • Buzzard, 202
  • —— honey, 217
  • —— moor, 216
  • Caccabis rufa, 265
  • Calcarius lapponica, 154
  • Calendrella brachydactyla, 178
  • Calidris arenaria, 308
  • Capercaillie, 275
  • Capped petrel, 339
  • Caprimulgus ægyptius, 181
  • —— europæus, 179
  • —— ruficollis, 181
  • Carduelis elegans, 126
  • Carpodacus erythrinus, 144
  • Carrion crow, 166
  • Caspian tern, 323
  • Certhia familiaris, 124
  • Ceryle alcyon, 189
  • Chack-bird, 54
  • Chaffinch, 134
  • Charadrius fulvus, 286
  • —— pluvialis, 284
  • Chat, river, 80
  • Chaulelasmus streperus, 241
  • Chelidon urbica, 121
  • Chen albatus, 227
  • Chiffchaff, 74
  • Chit-perle, 322
  • Chough, 157
  • Chrysometris spinus, 127
  • Churn-owl, 181
  • Ciconia alba, 226
  • —— nigra, 226
  • Cinclus aquaticus, 86
  • —— melanogaster, 88
  • Circus æruginosus, 216
  • —— cineraceus, 201
  • —— cyaneus, 199
  • Cirl bunting, 150
  • Clangula albeola, 246
  • —— glaucion, 249
  • —— islandica, 246
  • Clod-hopper, 54
  • Coal-mouse, 95
  • Coal-titmouse, 94
  • Coccothraustes vulgaris, 130
  • Coccystes glandarius, 193
  • Coccyzus americanus, 193
  • —— erythrophthalmus, 193
  • Collared pratincole, 284
  • Columba œnas, 261
  • —— livia, 261
  • —— palumbus, 259
  • Colymbus arcticus, 341
  • —— glacialis, 340
  • —— septentrionalis, 342
  • Common bittern, 224
  • —— curlew, 314
  • —— guillemot, 347
  • —— gull, 326
  • —— sandpiper, 309
  • —— scoter, 253
  • —— sheldrake, 235
  • —— skua, 330
  • —— snipe, 299
  • —— tern, 319
  • Coot, 280
  • Coracius garrula, 190
  • Cormorant, 218
  • —— green, 220
  • Corn-bunting, 146
  • Corncrake, 278
  • Cornish chough, 157
  • Corvus corax, 172
  • —— cornix, 167
  • —— corone, 166
  • —— frugilegus, 168
  • —— monedula, 163
  • Cosmonetta histrionica, 246
  • Cotile riparia, 122
  • Coturnix communis, 269
  • Crake, Baillon’s, 278
  • —— corn, 278
  • —— spotted, 277
  • Crane, 281
  • Cream-coloured courser, 284
  • Creeper, 124
  • Crested lark, 178
  • —— titmouse, 98
  • Crex pratensis, 278
  • Cricket teal, 243
  • Crossbill, 144
  • Crow, black, 167
  • —— carrion, 166
  • —— grey, 167
  • —— hooded, 167
  • —— Royston, 167
  • Cuckoo, 190
  • —— black billed, 193
  • —— great spotted, 193
  • —— yellow-billed, 193
  • Cuculus canorus, 190
  • Curlew, common, 314
  • —— Esquimaux, 317
  • —— stone, 282
  • Curlew-sandpiper, 303
  • Cursorius gallicus, 284
  • Cushat, 258
  • Cyanecula suecica, 59
  • —— wolfi, 59
  • Cygnus bewickii, 234
  • —— immutabilis, 233
  • —— musicus, 234
  • —— olor, 233
  • Cypselus apus, 178
  • —— melba, 179
  • Dabchick, 344
  • Dafila acuta, 238
  • Dartford warbler, 70
  • Daulias luscinia, 62
  • Dendrocopus major, 181
  • —— minor, 183
  • Desert wheatear, 54
  • Develing, 179
  • Dipper, 86
  • —— black-bellied, 88
  • Diver, black-throated, 341
  • —— great northern, 340
  • —— red-throated, 342
  • Dotterel, 289
  • Dove, ring, 258
  • —— rock, 261
  • —— stock, 261
  • —— turtle, 262
  • Double snipe, 298
  • Duck, buffel-headed, 216
  • —— eider, 251
  • —— harlequin, 246
  • —— long-tailed, 250
  • —— tufted, 246
  • —— white-eyed, 346
  • —— wild, 239
  • Dunlin, 300
  • Dunnock, 85
  • Dusky shearwater, 337
  • Eagle, black, 204
  • —— golden, 204
  • —— spotted, 216
  • —— white-tailed, 205
  • Eagle-owl, 199
  • Eared grebe, 345
  • Eastern plover, 286
  • Ectopistes migratorius, 264
  • Egyptian nightjar, 181
  • —— vulture, 216
  • Eider duck, 251
  • Elanoides furcatus, 217
  • Emberiza cirlus, 150
  • —— citrinella, 148
  • —— hortulana, 154
  • —— melanocephala, 154
  • —— miliaria, 146
  • —— pusilla, 154
  • —— rustica, 154
  • —— schœniclus, 151
  • Endromias morinellus, 289
  • Esquimaux curlew, 317
  • Erithacus rubecula, 59
  • Erne, 205
  • European hawk-owl, 199
  • Falco æsalon, 211
  • —— peregrinus, 208
  • —— subbuteo, 210
  • Falcon, Greenland, 217
  • —— Iceland, 217
  • —— peregrine, 208
  • —— red-crested, 217
  • —— red-footed, 217
  • Fallowchat, 54
  • Fieldfare, 46
  • Finch, mountain, 137
  • Firecrest, 74
  • Firetail, 58
  • Flycatcher, pied, 118
  • —— spotted, 116
  • Fork-tailed petrel, 335
  • Fratercula arctica, 351
  • French partridge, 265
  • Fringilla cœlebs, 134
  • —— montifringilla, 137
  • Fulica atra, 280
  • Fuligula cristata, 246
  • —— ferina, 248
  • —— marila, 247
  • —— rufina, 246
  • Fulmar, 337
  • Fulmarus glacialis, 337
  • Furze-wren, 70
  • Gadwell, 241
  • Gallinago cælestis, 299
  • —— major, 298
  • Gallinula chloropus, 279
  • Gannet, 221
  • Garden warbler, 69
  • Garganey, 243
  • Garrulus glandarius, 158
  • Gecinus viridis, 184
  • Glareola pratincola, 284
  • Glaucous gull, 329
  • Glead, 207
  • Glossy ibis, 226
  • Goatsucker, 179
  • Goldcrest, 72
  • Golden-crested wren, 72
  • Golden eagle, 204
  • Goldeneye, 249
  • Golden oriole, 114
  • Golden plover, 284
  • Goldfinch, 126
  • Goosander, 255
  • Goose, barnacle, 232
  • —— bean, 228
  • —— brent, 230
  • —— grey lag, 227
  • —— pink-footed, 229
  • —— solan, 221
  • —— white-fronted, 230
  • Goshawk, 216
  • Grasshopper warbler, 82
  • Great black-backed gull, 327
  • —— black-headed gull, 330
  • —— bustard, 281
  • —— crested grebe, 342
  • —— grey shrike, 116
  • —— northern diver, 340
  • —— reed-warbler, 82
  • —— skua, 330
  • —— snipe, 298
  • —— spotted cuckoo, 193
  • —— spotted woodpecker, 181
  • —— titmouse, 92
  • —— white heron, 226
  • Greater shearwater, 337
  • —— whitethroat, 65
  • Grebe, eared, 345
  • —— great crested, 342
  • —— little, 344
  • —— red-necked, 345
  • Green cormorant, 220
  • Greenfinch, 128
  • Greenland falcon, 217
  • —— redpole, 140
  • Green plover, 290
  • —— sandpiper, 310
  • Greenshank, 312
  • Green-winged teal, 244
  • Green woodpecker, 184
  • Grey-backed crow, 167
  • Grey crow, 167
  • —— lag-goose, 227
  • —— phalarope, 295
  • —— plover, 286
  • —— wagtail, 105
  • Griffon vulture, 215
  • Grouse, black, 273
  • —— red, 272
  • Grus communis, 281
  • Guillemot, black, 350
  • —— Brünnick’s, 351
  • —— common, 347
  • Gull-billed tern, 323
  • Gull, black-headed, 330
  • —— common, 326
  • —— glaucous, 329
  • —— great black-backed, 327
  • —— great black-headed, 330
  • —— herring, 324
  • —— Iceland, 217
  • —— ivory, 329
  • —— laughing, 329
  • —— lesser black-backed, 325
  • —— Sabine’s, 330
  • Gyps fulvus, 216
  • Gyrfalcon, 217
  • Hæmatopus ostralegus, 293
  • Half-curlew, 313
  • Haliaëtus albicilla, 205
  • Harelda glacialis, 250
  • Harlequin duck, 246
  • Harrier, Montagu’s, 201
  • Hawfinch, 130
  • Hawk-owl, American, 199
  • —— European, 199
  • Hawk, sparrow, 206
  • Heather-bleater, 299
  • Hedge-sparrow, 84
  • Helodromus ochropus, 310
  • Hen-harrier, 199
  • Heniconetta Stelleri, 246
  • Heron, 223
  • —— buff-backed, 226
  • —— great white, 226
  • —— night, 223
  • —— purple, 226
  • —— Squacco, 226
  • Herring-gull, 324
  • Hierofalco candicans, 217
  • —— gyrfalco, 217
  • —— islandicus, 217
  • Hirundo rustica, 118
  • Hobby, 210
  • Honey buzzard, 217
  • Hooded crow, 167
  • —— merganser, 246
  • Hoodie, 167
  • Hoopoe, 190
  • House-martin, 121
  • House-sparrow, 132
  • Hydrochelidon nigra, 323
  • Hypolaïs icterina, 79
  • Ibis, glossy, 226
  • Iceland falcon, 217
  • —— gull, 329
  • Icterine warbler, 79
  • Ivory gull, 329
  • Iÿnx torquilla, 186
  • Kentish plover, 287
  • Kestrel, 212
  • —— lesser, 217
  • Killdeer plover, 288
  • King eider, 246
  • Kingfisher, 188
  • —— belted, 189
  • Kite, 207
  • —— black, 216
  • Kittiwake, 323
  • Knot, 304
  • Lag-goose, grey, 227
  • Lagopus mutus, 270
  • —— scoticus, 272
  • Landrail, 278
  • Lanius collurio, 114
  • —— excubitor, 116
  • —— major, 116
  • —— minor, 116
  • —— pomeranus, 116
  • Lapland bunting, 154
  • Lapwing, 290
  • Lark, crested, 178
  • —— sky, 174
  • —— white-winged, 178
  • —— wood, 176
  • Larus argentatus, 324
  • —— canus, 326
  • —— fuscus, 325
  • —— glaucus, 329
  • —— ichthyaëtus, 330
  • —— leucopterus, 329
  • —— marinus, 327
  • —— minutus, 330
  • —— ridibundus, 328
  • Laughing gull, 329
  • Leach’s petrel, 335
  • Lesser black-backed gull, 325
  • —— golden plover, 286
  • —— grey shrike, 116
  • —— kestrel, 217
  • —— redpoll, 139
  • —— ringed plover, 288
  • —— spotted woodpecker, 183
  • Lesser tern, 320
  • —— whitethroat, 66
  • Ligurinus chloris, 128
  • Limnocryptes galliluna, 300
  • Limosa melanura, 316
  • Linnet, 138
  • —— mountain, 141
  • Linota cannabina, 138
  • —— flavirostris, 141
  • —— hornemanni, 140
  • —— linaria, 140
  • —— rufescens, 139
  • Little auk, 351
  • —— bittern, 226
  • —— bunting, 154
  • —— bustard, 281
  • —— crake, 278
  • —— egret, 226
  • —— grebe, 344
  • —— gull, 330
  • —— owl, 199
  • —— stint, 302
  • —— tern, 320
  • Locustella luscinioïdes, 84
  • —— nævia, 82
  • Lomvia bruennichi, 351
  • —— troile, 347
  • Long-eared owl, 196
  • Long-tailed duck, 250
  • —— titmouse, 90
  • Loon, 340
  • Loxia bifasciata, 145
  • —— curvirostra, 144
  • —— leucoptera, 145
  • —— pittyopsittacus, 145
  • Machetes pugnax, 306
  • Macqueen’s bustard, 281
  • Magpie, 160
  • Mallard, 239
  • Manx shearwater, 336
  • Mareca americana, 238
  • —— penelope, 237
  • Margulus alle, 351
  • Marsh-harrier, 216
  • Marsh-hen, 280
  • Marsh-titmouse, 96
  • Marsh warbler, 82
  • Martin, 121
  • —— house, 121
  • —— sand, 122
  • May bird, 313
  • Meadow-pipit, 108
  • Mealy redpoll, 140
  • Melanocorypha sibirica, 178
  • Melizophilus undatus, 70
  • Merganser, hooded, 246
  • —— red-breasted, 256
  • Mergus albellus, 258
  • —— cucullatus, 246
  • —— merganser, 255
  • —— serrator, 256
  • Merlin, 211
  • Merops apiaster, 190
  • Milvus ictinus, 207
  • —— nigrans, 216
  • Missel-thrush, 39
  • Montagu’s harrier, 201
  • Monticola saxatilis, 52
  • Moor buzzard, 216
  • Moorhen, 279
  • Moor-lamb, 299
  • Motacilla alba, 108
  • —— flava, 108
  • —— lugubris, 104
  • —— melanope, 105
  • —— rayii, 107
  • Mother Carey’s chicken, 334
  • Mountain-blackbird, 50
  • Mountain-finch, 137
  • Mountain-linnet, 141
  • Muscicapa atricapilla, 118
  • —— grisola, 116
  • —— parva, 118
  • Mute swan, 233
  • Needle-tailed swift, 179
  • Neophron percnopterus, 216
  • Night-churn, 181
  • Night heron, 226
  • Nightingale, 62
  • Nightjar, 179
  • —— Egyptian, 181
  • Noddy, 323
  • Norfolk plover, 282
  • North American killdeer-plover, 288
  • Nucifraga caryocatactes, 174
  • Numenius arquata, 314
  • —— phæopus, 313
  • Nun, 258
  • Nutcracker, 174
  • Nuthatch, 99
  • Nyctala tengmalmi, 199
  • Nyctea scandiaca, 199
  • Nycticorax griseus, 226
  • Nyroca ferruginea, 246
  • Oceanites oceanicus, 336
  • Œdemia fusca, 254
  • —— nigra, 253
  • —— perspicillata, 246
  • Œdicnemus scolopax, 282
  • Œstrelata hæsitata, 339
  • Oriole, golden, 114
  • Oriolus galbulus, 114
  • Orphean warbler, 70
  • Ortolan bunting, 154
  • Osprey, 215
  • Otis macqueeni, 281
  • —— tarda, 281
  • —— tetrax, 281
  • Otocorys alpestris, 178
  • Ouzel, water, 86
  • Owl, American hawk, 199
  • —— barn, 193
  • —— brown, 198
  • —— churn, 181
  • —— eagle, 199
  • —— European hawk, 199
  • —— little, 199
  • —— long-eared, 196
  • —— scops, 199
  • —— short-eared, 197
  • —— snowy, 199
  • —— tawny, 198
  • —— Tengmalm’s, 199
  • —— wood, 198
  • Oxeye, 92
  • Oyster-catcher, 293
  • Pagophila eburnea, 329
  • Pallas’s great grey shrike, 116
  • —— sand-grouse, 264
  • Pandion haliaëtus, 213
  • Panurus biamicus, 89
  • Parrot crossbill, 145
  • Partridge, 267
  • —— French, 265
  • —— red-legged, 265
  • Parus ater, 94
  • —— britannicus, 94
  • —— cæruleus, 97
  • —— cristatus, 98
  • —— major, 92
  • —— palustris, 96
  • Passenger pigeon, 264
  • Passer domesticus, 132
  • —— montanus, 133
  • Pastor roseus, 156
  • Pectoral sandpiper, 317
  • Perdix cinerea, 267
  • Peregrine falcon, 208
  • Pernis apivorus, 217
  • Petrel, Bulwer’s, 339
  • —— capped, 339
  • —— fork-tailed, 335
  • —— Leach’s, 335
  • —— stormy, 333
  • —— Wilson’s, 336
  • Pewit, 290
  • Phalacrocorax carbo, 218
  • —— graculus, 220
  • Phalarope, grey, 295
  • —— red-necked, 294
  • Phalaropus fulicarius, 295
  • —— hyperboreus, 294
  • Phasianus colchicus, 264
  • Pheasant, 264
  • —— ring-necked, 265
  • —— sea, 238
  • Phylloscopus rufus, 74
  • —— sibilatrix, 78
  • —— superciliosus, 79
  • —— trochilus, 76
  • Pica rustica, 160
  • Pied flycatcher, 118
  • —— wagtail, 104
  • Pigeon, passenger, 264
  • Pigmy curlew, 303
  • Pine grossbeak, 144
  • Pinicola enucleator, 144
  • Pink-footed goose, 229
  • Pintail, 238
  • Pipit, meadow, 108
  • —— Richard’s, 113
  • —— rock, 112
  • —— tawny, 113
  • —— tree, 110
  • —— water, 113
  • Platalea leucorodia, 226
  • Plectrophanes nivalis, 152
  • Plegadis falcinellus, 226
  • Plover, big, 282
  • —— golden, 284
  • —— green, 290
  • —— grey, 286
  • —— Kentish, 287
  • —— killdeer, 289
  • —— lesser golden, 286
  • —— lesser ringed, 288
  • —— Norfolk, 282
  • —— ringed, 287
  • Pochard, 248
  • —— red-crested, 246
  • Podiceps auritus, 345
  • —— cristatus, 342
  • —— griseigena, 345
  • —— nigrocollis, 345
  • Polish swan, 233
  • Pomatorhine skua, 333
  • Porzana bailloni, 278
  • —— maruetta, 277
  • —— parva, 278
  • Pratincola rubetra, 54
  • Pratincola rubicola, 56
  • Prettichaps, 69
  • Procellaria leucorrhoa, 335
  • —— pelagica, 333
  • Ptarmigan, 270
  • Puffin, 351
  • Puffinus anglorum, 336
  • —— griseus, 337
  • —— major, 337
  • —— obscurus, 337
  • Purple heron, 226
  • —— sandpiper, 304
  • Pyrrhocorax graculus, 157
  • Pyrrhula europæa, 142
  • Quail, 269
  • Querquedula carolinensis, 244
  • —— circia, 243
  • —— crecca, 244
  • —— discors, 244
  • Quest, 258
  • Rallus aquaticus, 277
  • Raven, 172
  • Razorbill, 345
  • Recurvirostra avocetta, 316
  • Red-backed shrike, 114
  • Redbreast, 59
  • Red-breasted flycatcher, 118
  • —— goose, 227
  • —— merganser, 256
  • —— snipe, 317
  • Red-craking night-wren, 84
  • Red-crested pochard, 246
  • Red-footed falcon, 217
  • Red grouse, 272
  • Red-legged partridge, 265
  • Red-necked grebe, 345
  • —— nightjar, 181
  • —— phalarope, 294
  • Red night-reeler, 84
  • Redpoll, Greenland, 140
  • —— lesser, 139
  • —— mealy, 140
  • Redshank, 310
  • Red-spotted bluethroat, 59
  • Redstart, 57
  • —— black, 59
  • Red-throated diver, 342
  • Redwing, 45
  • Reed-bunting, 151
  • Reed-sparrow, 152
  • Reed-warbler, 79
  • —— great, 82
  • Reelbird, 84
  • Reeve, 306
  • Regulus cristatus, 72
  • —— ignicapillus, 74
  • Richard’s pipit, 113
  • Richardson’s skua, 333
  • Ringdove, 258
  • Ringed plover, 287
  • Ring-necked pheasant, 265
  • Ring-ouzel, 50
  • Rissa tridactyla, 323
  • River-chat, 80
  • Robin, 59
  • Rock, blue, 262
  • Rock-dove, 261
  • Rock-pipit, 112
  • Rock-thrush, 52
  • Roller, 190
  • Rook, 168
  • Roseate tern, 320
  • Rose-coloured pastor, 156
  • Rosy bullfinch, 144
  • Rough-legged buzzard, 216
  • Royston crow, 167
  • Ruddy sheldrake, 236
  • Ruff, 306
  • Rufous warbler, 79
  • Rustic bunting, 154
  • Ruticilla phœnicurus, 57
  • —— titys, 59
  • Sabine’s gull, 330
  • Sanderling, 308
  • Sand-martin, 122
  • Sandpiper, Bartram’s, 317
  • —— Bonaparte’s, 317
  • —— broad-billed, 317
  • —— buff-breasted, 317
  • —— common, 309
  • —— curlew, 303
  • —— green, 310
  • —— pectoral, 317
  • —— purple, 304
  • —— wood, 316
  • Sandwich tern, 322
  • Savi’s warbler, 84
  • Saw-sharpener, 93
  • Saxicola deserti, 54
  • —— œnanthe, 52
  • —— strapazina, 54
  • Scaup, 247
  • Sclavonian grebe, 345
  • Scolopax rusticula, 296
  • Scopoli’s sooty tern, 323
  • Scops giu, 199
  • Scops owl, 199
  • Scoter, black, 253
  • Scoter, common, 253
  • —— surf, 246
  • —— velvet, 254
  • Screecher, 179
  • Sea-eagle, 205
  • Sea-magpie, 293
  • Sea-pheasant, 238
  • Sedge-bird, 80
  • Sedge-warbler, 80
  • Serin, 128
  • Serinus hortulanus, 128
  • Shag, 220
  • Shearwater, dusky, 337
  • —— greater, 337
  • —— Manx, 336
  • —— sooty, 337
  • Sheld-duck, 235
  • Sheldrake, common, 235
  • —— ruddy, 236
  • Shore-lark, 178
  • Short-eared owl, 197
  • Short-toed lark, 178
  • Shoveler, 245
  • Shrike, great grey, 116
  • —— lesser grey, 116
  • —— red-backed, 114
  • Siskin, 127
  • Sitta cæsia, 99
  • Skua, Buffon’s, 333
  • —— common or great, 330
  • —— Richardson’s, 333
  • Skylark, 174
  • Smew, 258
  • Snipe, common, 299
  • —— double, 298
  • —— great, 298
  • —— jack, 300
  • —— solitary, 298
  • —— summer, 309
  • Snow-bunting, 153
  • Snowflake, 152
  • Snow goose, 227
  • Snowy owl, 199
  • Solan goose, 221
  • Solitary snipe, 298
  • Somateria mollissima, 251
  • —— spectabilis, 246
  • Song-thrush, 41
  • Sooty shearwater, 337
  • —— tern, 323
  • Sparrow-hawk, 206
  • Sparrow, hedge, 84
  • —— house, 132
  • —— tree, 133
  • Spatula clypeata, 245
  • Spinner, 181
  • Spoonbill, 226
  • Spotted crake, 277
  • —— eagle, 216
  • —— flycatcher, 116
  • —— redshank, 316
  • —— woodpecker, 181
  • Squacco heron, 226
  • Squatarola helvetica, 286
  • Starling, 154
  • Steller’s duck, 246
  • Stercorarius catarrhactes, 330
  • —— crepidatus, 333
  • —— parasiticus, 333
  • —— pomatorhinus, 333
  • Sterna cantiaca, 322
  • —— dougalli, 320
  • —— fluviatilis, 319
  • —— macrura, 317
  • —— minuta, 320
  • Stilt, black-winged, 316
  • Stint, American, 317
  • —— little, 302
  • —— Temminck’s, 303
  • Stock-dove, 261
  • Stonechat, 56
  • Stone-cracker, 54
  • Stone-curlew, 282
  • Stork, black, 226
  • —— white, 226
  • Stormcock, 39
  • Storm petrel, 334
  • Stormy petrel, 333
  • Strepsilus interpres, 292
  • Strix flammea, 193
  • Sturnus vulgaris, 154
  • Sula bassana, 221
  • Summer snipe, 309
  • —— teal, 243
  • Surf-scoter, 246
  • Surnia funeria, 199
  • —— ulula, 199
  • Swallow, 118
  • Swallow-tailed kite, 217
  • Swan, Bewick’s, 234
  • —— mute, 233
  • —— Polish, 233
  • —— whooper, 234
  • —— wild, 234
  • Swift, 178
  • —— black, 179
  • —— needle-tailed, 179
  • —— white-bellied, 179
  • Sylvia atricapilla, 67
  • —— cinerea, 64
  • —— curruca, 66
  • —— hortensis, 69
  • —— nisoria, 70
  • —— orphea, 70
  • Syrnium aluco, 198
  • Syrrhaptes paradoxus, 264
  • Tachybaptes fluviatilis, 344
  • Tadorna casarca, 236
  • —— cornuta, 235
  • Tangle-picker, 293
  • Tawny owl, 198
  • —— pipit, 113
  • Teal, 244
  • —— blue-winged, 244
  • —— cricket, 243
  • —— green-winged, 244
  • —— summer, 243
  • Temminck’s stint, 303
  • Tengmalm’s owl, 199
  • Tern, arctic, 317
  • —— black, 323
  • —— Caspian, 323
  • —— common, 319
  • —— gull-billed, 323
  • —— little, 320
  • —— roseate, 320
  • —— Sandwich, 322
  • —— sooty, 323
  • —— whiskered, 323
  • —— white-winged black, 323
  • Tetrao tetrix, 273
  • —— urogallus, 275
  • Thick-knee, 282
  • Throstle, 41
  • Thrush, black-throated, 51
  • —— missel, 39
  • —— rock, 52
  • —— song, 41
  • —— White’s, 52
  • Tinnunculus alaudarius, 212
  • —— cenchris, 217
  • —— vespertinus, 247
  • Titmouse, bearded, 89
  • —— blue, 97
  • —— coal, 94
  • —— crested, 98
  • —— great, 92
  • —— long-tailed, 90
  • —— marsh, 96
  • Totanus calidris, 310
  • —— canescens, 312
  • —— glareola, 316
  • Tree-creeper, 124
  • Tree-pipit, 110
  • Tree-sparrow, 133
  • Tringa alpina, 300
  • —— canutus, 304
  • —— minuta, 302
  • —— striata, 304
  • —— subarquata, 303
  • —— Temmincki, 303
  • Tringoïdes hypoleucus, 309
  • Troglodytes parvulus, 101
  • Tufted duck, 246
  • Turdus atrigularis, 52
  • —— iliacus, 45
  • —— merula, 47
  • —— musicus, 41
  • —— pilaris, 46
  • —— torquatus, 50
  • —— varius, 52
  • —— viscivorus, 39
  • Turnstone, 292
  • Turtle-dove, 262
  • Turtur communis, 262
  • Twite, 141
  • Two-barred crossbill, 145
  • Upupa epops, 190
  • Uria grylle, 350
  • Vanellus vulgaris, 290
  • Velvet scoter, 246, 254
  • Vulture, Egyptian, 216
  • —— griffon, 216
  • Wagtail, blue-headed yellow, 108
  • —— grey, 105
  • —— pied, 104
  • —— white, 108
  • —— yellow, 107
  • Warbler, aquatic, 82
  • —— barred, 70
  • —— Dartford, 70
  • —— garden, 69
  • —— grasshopper, 82
  • —— icterine, 79
  • —— marsh, 82
  • —— orphean, 70
  • —— reed, 79
  • —— Savi’s, 84
  • —— sedge, 79
  • —— willow, 76
  • —— yellow-browed, 79
  • Water-hen, 280
  • Water-ouzel, 86
  • Water-pipit, 113
  • Water-rail, 277
  • Waxwing, 114
  • Whaup, 315
  • Wheatear, 52
  • —— black-throated, 54
  • —— desert, 54
  • Wheelbird, 181
  • Whimbrel, 313
  • Whinchat, 54
  • Whiskered tern, 323
  • White-bellied swift, 179
  • White-eyed duck, 246
  • White-fronted goose, 230
  • White-spotted bluethroat, 59
  • White’s thrush, 52
  • White stork, 226
  • Whitetail, 54
  • White-tailed eagle, 205
  • Whitethroat, 64
  • —— greater, 65
  • —— lesser, 66
  • White wagtail, 108
  • White-winged black tern, 323
  • —— crossbill, 145
  • —— lark, 178
  • Whooper swan, 234
  • Wigeon, 237
  • —— American, 238
  • Wild duck, 239
  • —— swan, 234
  • Willow-warbler, 76
  • Willow-wren, 76
  • Wilson’s petrel, 336
  • Windhover, 212
  • Woodchat, 116
  • Woodcock, 296
  • Woodlark, 176
  • Wood-owl, 198
  • Woodpecker, barred, 183
  • —— green, 184
  • —— lesser spotted, 183
  • —— spotted, 181
  • Wood-pigeon, 258
  • Wood-sandpiper, 316
  • Wood-wren, 78
  • Wren, 101
  • —— furze, 70
  • —— golden-crested, 72
  • —— red-craking night, 84
  • —— willow, 76
  • —— wood, 78
  • Wryneck, 186
  • Xema sabinii, 330
  • Yaffle, 185
  • Yellow-billed cuckoo, 193
  • Yellow-browed warbler, 79
  • Yellow bunting, 148
  • Yellowhammer, 148
  • Yellow wagtail, 107
  • —— yoldring, 149