Birds: Europe

The home team.

To the untrained eye (and that includes mine), the order here may seem more or less random. However, on the rash assumption that I’ve sorted them correctly, my sequence follows the sequencing within the Collins Bird Guide.

Whilst an alphabetical sequence on scientific name would certainly be more manageable, like species would get separated, so that seems to make no sense; similarly with a sequence on alphabetical common name. So, I’m stuck with the awkward to maintain.

Great Crested Grebe	Little Grebe	Fulmar

Northern Gannet	Cormorant	Pygmy Cormorant

Night-Heron	Squacco Heron	Little Egret

Grey Heron	Purple Heron	Greater Flamingo

Mute Swan	Greylag Goose	Canada Goose

Mallard	Gadwall	Wigeon

Eurasian Teal	Pochard	Red-crested Pochard

Tufted Duck	Goosander	Mandarin

Griffon Vulture	Short-toed Eagle	Booted Eagle

Red Kite	Black Kite	Marsh Harrier

Common Buzzard	Sparrowhawk	Lesser Kestrel

Kestrel	Pheasant	Moorhen chick

Moorhen	Coot	Oystercatcher

Avocet	Black-winged Stilt	Collared Pratincole

Common Ringed Plover	Kentish Plover	Lapwing

Turnstone	Redshank	Curlew

Whimbrel	Black-headed Gull	Herring Gull

Kittiwake	Common Tern	Puffin

Common Guillemot	Razorbill	Columba livia

Wood Pigeon	Cuckoo	Barn Owl

Hoopoe	Kingfisher	Rose-ringed Parakeet

Green Woodpecker	Great Spotted Woodpecker	Thekla Lark

Barn Swallow	Water Pipit	Rock Pipit

Berthelot’s Pipit	Meadow Pipit	Pied Wagtail

Grey Wagtail	Dipper	Waxwing

Dunnock	Robin	Black Redstart

Nightingale	Stonechat	Mistle Thrush

Song Thrush	Redwing	Fieldfare

Blackbird		Blackcap

Sardinian Warbler		Zitting Cisticola

Whitethroat	Wren	Spotted Flycatcher

Pied Flycatcher female	Blue Tit	Great Tit

Coal Tit	Long-tailed Tit	Marsh Tit

Nuthatch	Treecreeper	Magpie

Jay	Corvus	Hooded Crow

Starling	Chaffinch	Chaffinch female

Madeiran Chaffinch	Brambling female	Linnet

Goldfinch	Siskin male	Siskin female

Serin	Bullfinch	Cirl Bunting