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Lesbos
This checklist includes all bird species found in Lesbos , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Lesbos [map]
Other names: Λέσβος, Lesvos, Lésvos
Number of species: 348
Number of globally threatened species: 18
Number of introduced species: 2
Date last reviewed: 2018-03-23
Last modified: 2022-10-22
See also: http://lesvosbirding.com/
Number of globally threatened species: 18
Number of introduced species: 2
Date last reviewed: 2018-03-23
Last modified: 2022-10-22
See also: http://lesvosbirding.com/
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| Red-breasted Goose | Branta ruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | Introduced species |
| Greylag Goose | Anser anser | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | |
| Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | Rare/Accidental |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca | Introduced species |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | |
| Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Eurasian Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Rare/Accidental |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare/Accidental |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | Rare/Accidental |
| Smew | Mergellus albellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
| White-headed Duck | Oxyura leucocephala | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Introduced species |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Chukar Partridge | Alectoris chukar | |
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| European Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Bustard | Otis tarda | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | |
| Stock Dove | Columba oenas | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Wood Pigeon | Columba palumbus | |
| European Turtle Dove | Streptopelia turtur | |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
| Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
| Little Crake | Zapornia parva | |
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| Demoiselle Crane | Grus virgo | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Crane | Grus grus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
| Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
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| Eurasian Stone-curlew | Burhinus oedicnemus | |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
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| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | |
| Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | |
| Sociable Lapwing | Vanellus gregarius | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tailed Lapwing | Vanellus leucurus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Golden Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | |
| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| Caspian Plover | Charadrius asiaticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Charadrius morinellus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | Rare/Accidental |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
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| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Rare/Accidental |
| Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |
| Audouin's Gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | |
| Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | |
| Common Gull | Larus canus | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | |
| Armenian Gull | Larus armenicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
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| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | |
| Black-throated Loon | Gavia arctica | |
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| European Storm Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | |
| Balearic Shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |
| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pygmy Cormorant | Microcarbo pygmaeus | |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| European Shag | Gulosus aristotelis | |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
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| Eurasian Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
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| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
| Dalmatian Pelican | Pelecanus crispus | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | Rare/Accidental |
| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Honey Buzzard | Pernis apivorus | |
| Crested Honey Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
| Griffon Vulture | Gyps fulvus | Rare/Accidental |
| Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | |
| Short-toed Snake Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina | |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | Clanga clanga | Rare/Accidental |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | |
| Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Imperial Eagle | Aquila heliaca | Rare/Accidental |
| Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | |
| Levant Sparrowhawk | Accipiter brevipes | |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Northern Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | |
| Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | |
| Red Kite | Milvus milvus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Rough-legged Buzzard | Buteo lagopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
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| Western Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Little Owl | Athene noctua | |
| Eurasian Scops Owl | Otus scops | |
| Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Eagle-Owl | Bubo bubo | |
| Tawny Owl | Strix aluco | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
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| White-throated Kingfisher | Halcyon smyrnensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
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| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | |
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| Eurasian Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
| Middle Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocoptes medius | |
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| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
| Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | |
| Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
| Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | |
| Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
| Red-tailed Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Grey Shrike | Lanius minor | |
| Great Grey Shrike | Lanius excubitor | Rare/Accidental |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | |
| Masked Shrike | Lanius nubicus | |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | |
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| Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |
| Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | |
| Spotted Nutcracker | Nucifraga caryocatactes | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-billed Chough | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Jackdaw | Coloeus monedula | |
| Rook | Corvus frugilegus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Crow | Corvus cornix | |
| Northern Raven | Corvus corax | |
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| Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Coal Tit | Periparus ater | |
| Sombre Tit | Poecile lugubris | |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | Cyanistes caeruleus | |
| Great Tit | Parus major | |
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| Eurasian Penduline Tit | Remiz pendulinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bearded Reedling | Panurus biarmicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Woodlark | Lullula arborea | |
| Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | Rare/Accidental |
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| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | |
| Eurasian Crag Martin | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Common House Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
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| Cetti's Warbler | Cettia cetti | |
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| Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |
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| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |
| Eastern Bonelli's Warbler | Phylloscopus orientalis | |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallas's Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus proregulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
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| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | |
| Moustached Warbler | Acrocephalus melanopogon | Rare/Accidental |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
| Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | |
| Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | |
| Olive-tree Warbler | Hippolais olivetorum | |
| Melodious Warbler | Hippolais polyglotta | Rare/Accidental |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | |
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| River Warbler | Locustella fluviatilis | |
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | |
| Common Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | |
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| Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | |
| Barred Warbler | Curruca nisoria | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | |
| Eastern Orphean Warbler | Curruca crassirostris | |
| Menetries's Warbler | Curruca mystacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Rüppell's Warbler | Curruca ruppeli | |
| Sardinian Warbler | Curruca melanocephala | |
| Eastern Subalpine Warbler | Curruca cantillans | |
| Common Whitethroat | Curruca communis | |
| Spectacled Warbler | Curruca conspicillata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
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| Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
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| Krüper's Nuthatch | Sitta krueperi | |
| Western Rock Nuthatch | Sitta neumayer | |
| Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | |
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| Short-toed Treecreeper | Certhia brachydactyla | |
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| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | |
| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
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| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | |
| Common Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | Rare/Accidental |
| Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| White-throated Robin | Irania gutturalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | |
| Semicollared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
| Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| Common Rock Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | |
| Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
| European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | |
| Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | |
| Hooded Wheatear | Oenanthe monacha | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe melanoleuca | |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | Rare/Accidental |
| Finsch's Wheatear | Oenanthe finschii | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-throated Dipper | Cinclus cinclus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rock Sparrow | Petronia petronia | |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | |
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
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| Dunnock | Prunella modularis | |
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| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | Rare/Accidental |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| Water Pipit | Anthus spinoletta | |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |
| Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| Common Linnet | Linaria cannabina | |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | Rare/Accidental |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| Red-fronted Serin | Serinus pusillus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Serin | Serinus serinus | |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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| Corn Bunting | Emberiza calandra | |
| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | Rare/Accidental |
| Rock Bunting | Emberiza cia | Rare/Accidental |
| Cinereous Bunting | Emberiza cineracea | |
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |
| Cretzschmar's Bunting | Emberiza caesia | |
| Cirl Bunting | Emberiza cirlus | |
| Little Bunting | Emberiza pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-breasted Bunting | Emberiza aureola | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | |
| Common Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | |
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