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Alentejo
This checklist includes all bird species found in Alentejo , 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 Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). 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: Alentejo [map]
Number of species: 376
Number of introduced species: 12
Date last reviewed: 2012-01-29
Last modified: 2023-05-23
See also: http://avesdeportugal.info/listas.html
Number of introduced species: 12
Date last reviewed: 2012-01-29
Last modified: 2023-05-23
See also: http://avesdeportugal.info/listas.html
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| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | Introduced species |
| White-headed Duck | Oxyura leucocephala | |
| Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | Introduced species |
| Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | |
| Brent Goose | Branta bernicla | Rare/Accidental |
| Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | Rare/Accidental |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | |
| Bar-headed Goose | Anser indicus | Introduced species |
| Greylag Goose | Anser anser | |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
| Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | Rare/Accidental |
| Velvet Scoter | Melanitta fusca | |
| Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | |
| Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca | Introduced species |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | |
| Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Introduced species |
| Marbled Teal | Marmaronetta angustirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | |
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| Indian Peafowl | Pavo cristatus | Extirpated |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Red-legged Partridge | Alectoris rufa | |
| Common Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | |
| Grey Partridge | Perdix perdix | |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
| Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | |
| Stock Dove | Columba oenas | |
| Wood Pigeon | Columba palumbus | |
| European Turtle Dove | Streptopelia turtur | |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
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| Pin-tailed Sandgrouse | Pterocles alchata | |
| Black-bellied Sandgrouse | Pterocles orientalis | |
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| Red-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus ruficollis | |
| European Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | |
| White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
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| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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| Western Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
| Purple Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | |
| Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
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| Common Crane | Grus grus | |
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| Little Bustard | Tetrax tetrax | |
| Great Bustard | Otis tarda | |
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| Red-throated Diver | Gavia stellata | |
| Black-throated Diver | Gavia arctica | |
| Great Northern Diver | Gavia immer | |
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| Wilson's Storm-petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
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| European Storm-petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | |
| Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | |
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| Cape Verde Petrel | Pterodroma feae | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | |
| Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | |
| Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | |
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| Marabou | Leptoptilos crumenifer | Introduced species |
| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |
| European White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | Introduced species |
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| Eurasian Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Western Reef Egret | Egretta gularis | Rare/Accidental |
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| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
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| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Shag | Phalacrocorax aristotelis | |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
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| Eurasian Thick-knee | Burhinus oedicnemus | |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | |
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| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Eurasian Golden Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | |
| American Golden Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | |
| Sociable Lapwing | Vanellus gregarius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Steganopus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
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| Cream-coloured Courser | Cursorius cursor | Rare/Accidental |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
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| Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | |
| Razorbill | Alca torda | |
| Common Guillemot | Uria aalge | |
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| Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | |
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| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | |
| Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | |
| Audouin's Gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | |
| Mew Gull | Larus canus | |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
| Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | |
| Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | |
| European Honey Buzzard | Pernis apivorus | |
| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | |
| Short-toed Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |
| White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Rüppell's Vulture | Gyps rueppelli | |
| Griffon Vulture | Gyps fulvus | |
| Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | |
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina | Rare/Accidental |
| Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Spanish Imperial Eagle | Aquila adalberti | |
| Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | |
| Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Rare/Accidental |
| Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Northern Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
| Red Kite | Milvus milvus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Eurasian Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | |
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| Common Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Little Owl | Athene noctua | |
| Eurasian Scops Owl | Otus scops | |
| Northern Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
| Tawny Owl | Strix aluco | |
| Eurasian Eagle Owl | Bubo bubo | |
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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| Northern Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
| Green Woodpecker | Picus viridis | |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos minor | |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | |
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| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
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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 | Rare/Accidental |
| Gyrfalcon | Falco rusticolus | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Monk Parakeet | Myiopsitta monachus | Introduced species |
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| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
| Lesser Grey Shrike | Lanius minor | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Grey Shrike | Lanius excubitor | |
| Iberian Grey Shrike | Lanius meridionalis | |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | |
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| Red-billed Chough | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | |
| Azure-winged Magpie | Cyanopica cyanus | |
| Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |
| Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | |
| Eurasian Nutcracker | Nucifraga caryocatactes | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Jackdaw | Corvus monedula | |
| Common Raven | Corvus corax | |
| Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | |
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| Alpine Accentor | Prunella collaris | |
| Dunnock | Prunella modularis | |
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| Yellow-crowned Bishop | Euplectes afer | Introduced species |
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| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
| Red Avadavat | Amandava amandava | Introduced species |
| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Introduced species |
| Black-headed Munia | Lonchura malacca | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
| Eurasian Rock Sparrow | Petronia petronia | |
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| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
| Water Pipit | Anthus spinoletta | |
| Rock Pipit | Anthus petrosus | |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
| Blyth's Pipit | Anthus godlewskii | Rare/Accidental |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |
| Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |
| Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| Common Rosefinch | Erythrina erythrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| Common Linnet | Linaria cannabina | |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| European Serin | Serinus serinus | |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | |
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| Corn Bunting | Emberiza calandra | |
| Rock Bunting | Emberiza cia | |
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |
| Cirl Bunting | Emberiza cirlus | |
| Pallas's Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus pallasi | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus schoeniclus | |
| Little Bunting | Schoeniclus pusillus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Coal Tit | Periparus ater | |
| Crested Tit | Lophophanes cristatus | |
| Blue Tit | Cyanistes caeruleus | |
| Great Tit | Parus major | |
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| European Penduline Tit | Remiz pendulinus | |
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| Lesser Short-toed Lark | Alaudala rufescens | |
| Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Wood Lark | Lullula arborea | |
| Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Thekla Lark | Galerida theklae | |
| Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | |
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| Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | |
| Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | |
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| Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | |
| Isabelline Warbler | Iduna opaca | |
| Melodious Warbler | Hippolais polyglotta | |
| Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | Rare/Accidental |
| Moustached Warbler | Acrocephalus melanopogon | Rare/Accidental |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | |
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| Northern House Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Eurasian Crag Martin | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | |
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| Western Bonelli's Warbler | Rhadina bonelli | |
| Wood Warbler | Rhadina sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Abrornis inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Iberian Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus ibericus | |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
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| Cetti's Warbler | Cettia cetti | |
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| Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | |
| Western Orphean Warbler | Curruca hortensis | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Subalpine Warbler | Curruca cantillans | |
| Western Subalpine Warbler | Curruca inornata | |
| Sardinian Warbler | Curruca melanocephala | |
| Common Whitethroat | Curruca communis | |
| Spectacled Warbler | Curruca conspicillata | |
| Dartford Warbler | Curruca undata | |
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| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
| Eurasian Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | |
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| Short-toed Treecreeper | Certhia brachydactyla | |
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| Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | |
| Wallcreeper | Tichodroma muraria | |
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| Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | |
| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Crested Myna | Acridotheres cristatellus | Introduced species |
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| White-throated Dipper | Cinclus cinclus | |
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| Rufous Scrub Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | Rare/Accidental |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| Common Rock Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | |
| Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
| European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | |
| Black Wheatear | Oenanthe leucura | |
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| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | |
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