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Moldova
This checklist includes all bird species found in Moldova , 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 .
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Country or region: Moldova [map]
Other names: Republic of Moldova
Number of species: 339
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2018-12-26
Last modified: 2024-03-18
See also: https://ro.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%83s%C4%83rile_Republicii_Moldova
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2018-12-26
Last modified: 2024-03-18
See also: https://ro.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%83s%C4%83rile_Republicii_Moldova
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| Graylag Goose | Anser anser | |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
| Lesser White-fronted Goose | Anser erythropus | Vulnerable |
| Taiga Bean-Goose | Anser fabalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Goose | Branta ruficollis | Vulnerable |
| Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | |
| Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | |
| Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | |
| Mandarin Duck | Aix galericulata | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Vulnerable |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Near-threatened |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
| Common Eider | Somateria mollissima | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Velvet Scoter | Melanitta fusca | Vulnerable |
| Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Vulnerable |
| Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | |
| Smew | Mergellus albellus | |
| Common Merganser | Mergus merganser | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
| White-headed Duck | Oxyura leucocephala | Endangered |
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| Hazel Grouse | Tetrastes bonasia | |
| Black Grouse | Lyrurus tetrix | Extirpated |
| Gray Partridge | Perdix perdix | |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Introduced species |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | |
| Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
| Eared Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | |
| Stock Dove | Columba oenas | |
| Common Wood-Pigeon | Columba palumbus | |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Vulnerable |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
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| Pallas's Sandgrouse | Syrrhaptes paradoxus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Bustard | Otis tarda | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Little Bustard | Tetrax tetrax | Near-threatened |
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| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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| Eurasian Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
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| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | |
| Little Crake | Zapornia parva | |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
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| Demoiselle Crane | Anthropoides virgo | Extirpated |
| Common Crane | Grus grus | |
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| Eurasian Thick-knee | Burhinus oedicnemus | |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Near-threatened |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| European Golden-Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Near-threatened |
| Kentish Plover | Anarhynchus alexandrinus | |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Slender-billed Curlew | Numenius tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | Near-threatened |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Near-threatened |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
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| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | Near-threatened |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
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| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |
| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Pallas's Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Gull | Larus canus | |
| Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
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| Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | |
| Arctic Loon | Gavia arctica | |
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| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |
| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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| Pygmy Cormorant | Microcarbo pygmaeus | |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| European Shag | Gulosus aristotelis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
| Dalmatian Pelican | Pelecanus crispus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Great Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | Endangered |
| European Honey-buzzard | Pernis apivorus | |
| Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Griffon | Gyps fulvus | |
| Short-toed Snake-Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina | |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | Clanga clanga | Vulnerable |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | |
| Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | Endangered |
| Imperial Eagle | Aquila heliaca | Vulnerable |
| Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | |
| Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Near-threatened |
| Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | |
| Levant Sparrowhawk | Accipiter brevipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Eurasian Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
| Red Kite | Milvus milvus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | |
| Rough-legged Hawk | Buteo lagopus | |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Eurasian Scops-Owl | Otus scops | |
| Eurasian Eagle-Owl | Bubo bubo | |
| Little Owl | Athene noctua | |
| Tawny Owl | Strix aluco | |
| Ural Owl | Strix uralensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
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| Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
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| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
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| Eurasian Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
| Middle Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocoptes medius | |
| White-backed Woodpecker | Dendrocopos leucotos | |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | |
| Syrian Woodpecker | Dendrocopos syriacus | |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Dryobates minor | |
| Gray-headed Woodpecker | Picus canus | |
| Eurasian Green Woodpecker | Picus viridis | |
| Black Woodpecker | Dryocopus martius | |
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| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | Vulnerable |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
| Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | Endangered |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
| Great Gray Shrike | Lanius excubitor | |
| Lesser Gray Shrike | Lanius minor | |
| Masked Shrike | Lanius nubicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |
| Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | |
| Eurasian Nutcracker | Nucifraga caryocatactes | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Jackdaw | Corvus monedula | |
| Rook | Corvus frugilegus | |
| Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Crow | Corvus cornix | |
| Common Raven | Corvus corax | |
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| Coal Tit | Periparus ater | |
| Crested Tit | Lophophanes cristatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sombre Tit | Poecile lugubris | |
| Marsh Tit | Poecile palustris | |
| Willow Tit | Poecile montanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | Cyanistes caeruleus | |
| Great Tit | Parus major | |
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| Eurasian Penduline-Tit | Remiz pendulinus | |
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| Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | |
| Black Lark | Melanocorypha yeltoniensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Dupont's Lark | Chersophilus duponti | Vulnerable |
| Wood Lark | Lullula arborea | |
| White-winged Lark | Alauda leucoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | |
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| Bearded Reedling | Panurus biarmicus | |
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| Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | |
| Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | Vulnerable |
| Moustached Warbler | Acrocephalus melanopogon | Rare/Accidental |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
| Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | Rare/Accidental |
| Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | |
| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | |
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| River Warbler | Locustella fluviatilis | |
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | |
| Common Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Eurasian Crag-Martin | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Western House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
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| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
| Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | Rare/Accidental |
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| Cetti's Warbler | Cettia cetti | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |
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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 | Rare/Accidental |
| Sardinian Warbler | Curruca melanocephala | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Whitethroat | Curruca communis | |
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| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
| Common Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | |
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| Eurasian Treecreeper | Certhia familiaris | |
| Short-toed Treecreeper | Certhia brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
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| White-throated Dipper | Cinclus cinclus | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
| Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
| Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
| European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | |
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| Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | |
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| Dunnock | Prunella modularis | |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
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| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| Water Pipit | Anthus spinoletta | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |
| Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| Eurasian Linnet | Linaria cannabina | |
| Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | Rare/Accidental |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| European Serin | Serinus serinus | |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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| Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | |
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| Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | |
| Corn Bunting | Emberiza calandra | |
| Rock Bunting | Emberiza cia | |
| Cirl Bunting | Emberiza cirlus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | |
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |
| Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | |
| Yellow-breasted Bunting | Emberiza aureola | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
| Little Bunting | Emberiza pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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