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| BIRD LIST FOR LANGSTONE HARBOUR |
| The following is a list of birds that have been recorded in the Langstone Harbour area. It includes all those species that have been accepted by the relevant records committees as well as a few that have yet to be submitted (and considered acceptable by this author) or that are in the process of being assessed (marked with an *). The recording area encompasses the immediate open land around the shoreline of Langstone Harbour, as well as the Farlington Marshes Wildlife Reserve, and is consistent with the area defined in the harbour management plan. In so doing the list includes a few species and records from sites that would otherwise have not been included, such as Sinah Common on Hayling Island, part of the Milton and Eastney area of Portsea Island, the Mill Pond at Bedhampton and Budds Sewage Treatment Works at nearby Brockhampton. For the benifit of those readers with a more strict sense of what defines the boundary of Langstone Harbour, these �additional� areas only account for 6 species in the overall total. A total of 297 species have been recorded. Additionally, I have included in the list a further 7 potential splits that have both been proposed as full species and are also well-marked forms which have a long history of being recorded seperately. These are indented in the list from the main species. I have also indicated the species which have been seen in the area during the twelve-year period 1992 - 2003 (corresponding with the time I have been birding the area) by using a black type-face. These come to a total of 256 species. This is very impressive for an area that is set amidst a largely densely populated area and is next to one of the biggest cities - Portsmouth - in southern England. The long list is not just the result of the various habitats within the area having attracted the birds, but is also the result of the constant observations and recording made by many observers over the years, some of which have been fortunate enough to have added to the total. From time to time I will endeavour to produce brief species accounts which will either list all the records (for rare or scarce species) or summarise the data collected (for the commoner species) during the period 1992-2001. Those species that are underlined have been treated to this distinction! Many of the records have previously been pubished by the Hampshire Ornithological Society in their annual Bird Reports. |
| Red-throated Diver Black-throated Diver Great Northern Diver Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Red-necked Grebe Slavonian Grebe Black-necked Grebe Fulmar Manx Shearwater European Storm Petrel Leach�s Storm Petrel Gannet Cormorant Shag Bittern Little Bittern Black-crowned Night Heron Cattle Egret Little Egret Great White Egret Grey Heron Purple Heron Black Stork White Stork Spoonbill Mute Swan Bewick�s Swan Whooper Swan Tundra Bean Goose Pink-footed Goose European White-fronted Goose Greenland White-fronted Goose Greylag Goose Snow Goose Ross�s Goose Canada Goose Barnacle Goose Dark-bellied Brent Goose Pale-bellied Brent Goose Black Brant Red-breasted Goose Egyptian Goose Ruddy Shelduck Shelduck Mandarin Duck Wigeon American Wigeon Gadwall Common Teal Green-winged Teal Mallard Pintail Garganey Blue-winged Teal Shoveler Red-crested Pochard Pochard Ferruginous Duck Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Common Eider Long-tailed Duck Common Scoter Velvet Scoter Goldeneye Smew Red-breasted Merganser Goosander Ruddy Duck Honey Buzzard Black Kite Red Kite Marsh Harrier Hen Harrier Montagu�s Harrier Goshawk Sparrowhawk Common Buzzard Lesser Spotted Eagle* Osprey Kestrel Red-footed Falcon Merlin Hobby Peregrine Red-legged Partridge Grey Partridge Quail Pheasant Water Rail Spotted Crake Little Crake Corncrake Moorhen Coot Common Crane Oystercatcher Black-winged Stilt Avocet Stone Curlew Little Ringed Plover Ringed Plover Kentish Plover Dotterel American Golden Plover Golden Plover Grey Plover Lapwing Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Little Stint Temminck�s Stint Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird�s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Broad-billed Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Jack Snipe Common Snipe Long-billed Dowitcher Woodcock Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Whimbrel Curlew Spotted Redshank Redshank Marsh Sandpiper Greenshank Lesser Yellowlegs Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Turnstone Red-necked Phalarope Grey Phalarope Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua Long-tailed Skua Great Skua Mediterranean Gull Franklin�s Gull Little Gull Sabine�s Gull |
| Bonaparte's Gull Black-headed Gull Ring-billed Gull Common Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Herring Gull Yellow-legged Gull Caspian Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Kittiwake Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Little Tern Black Tern White-winged Black Tern Guillemot Razorbill Little Auk Pallas�s Sandgrouse Feral Pigeon Stock Dove Woodpigeon Collared Dove Turtle Dove Ring-necked Parakeet Cuckoo Barn Owl Little Owl Tawny owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Nightjar Common Swift Pallid Swift Kingfisher Hoopoe Wryneck Green Woodpecker Great Spotted Woodpecker Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Woodlark Skylark Shore Lark Sand Martin Swallow Red-rumped Swallow House Martin Richard�s Pipit Tawny Pipit Tree Pipit Meadow Pipit Water Pipit Rock Pipit Yellow Wagtail Blue-headed Wagtail Citrine Wagtail Grey Wagtail Pied Wagtail White Wagtail Waxwing Wren Dunnock Robin Nightingale Bluethroat Black Redstart Common Redstart Whinchat Stonechat Northern Wheatear Black-eared Wheatear Desert Wheatear Ring Ouzel Blackbird Fieldfare Song Thrush Redwing Mistle Thrush Cetti�s Warbler Grasshopper Warbler Savi�s Warbler Aquatic Warbler Sedge Warbler Marsh Warbler Reed Warbler Icterine Warbler Melodious Warbler Dartford Warbler Subalpine Warbler Barred Warbler Lesser Whitethroat Common Whitethroat Garden Warbler Blackcap Yellow-browed Warbler Wood Warbler Chiffchaff Siberian Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Goldcrest Firecrest Spotted Flycatcher Red-breasted Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher Bearded Tit Long-tailed Tit Marsh Tit Willow Tit Coal Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Nuthatch Treecreeper Penduline Tit Golden Oriole Red-backed Shrike Great Grey Shrike Woodchat Shrike Jay Magpie Jackdaw Rook Carrion Crow Hooded Crow Raven Starling House Sparrow Tree Sparrow Chaffinch Brambling Serin Greenfinch Goldfinch Siskin Linnet Twite Lesser Redpoll Common Crossbill Bullfinch Hawfinch Lapland Bunting Snow Bunting Yellowhammer Cirl Bunting Reed Bunting Corn Bunting |
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