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North Ronaldsay
This checklist includes all bird species found in North Ronaldsay , 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 Clements, version 2025. 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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| Bar-headed Goose | Anser indicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Graylag Goose | Anser anser | |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
| Taiga Bean-Goose | Anser fabalis | |
| Tundra Bean-Goose | Anser serrirostris | |
| Pink-footed Goose | Anser brachyrhynchus | |
| Brant | Branta bernicla | |
| Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | Introduced species |
| Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | |
| Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | |
| Mandarin Duck | Aix galericulata | Introduced species |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Vulnerable |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Steller's Eider | Polysticta stelleri | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| King Eider | Somateria spectabilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Eider | Somateria mollissima | Near-threatened |
| Harlequin Duck | Histrionicus histrionicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | Rare/Accidental |
| Velvet Scoter | Melanitta fusca | Vulnerable |
| Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | |
| Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Vulnerable |
| Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | |
| Smew | Mergellus albellus | |
| Common Merganser | Mergus merganser | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | |
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| Ring-necked Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Introduced species |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | |
| Stock Dove | Columba oenas | |
| Common Wood-Pigeon | Columba palumbus | |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Vulnerable |
| Oriental Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
| Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Bustard | Tetrax tetrax | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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| Eurasian Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
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| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
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| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | |
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| Common Crane | Grus grus | |
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| Eurasian Thick-knee | Burhinus oedicnemus | |
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| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Near-threatened |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| European Golden-Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Ringed Plover | Thinornis dubius | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Near-threatened |
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| Hudsonian Whimbrel | Numenius hudsonicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Vulnerable |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Near-threatened |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | |
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| Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | Vulnerable |
| Black Guillemot | Cepphus grylle | |
| Razorbill | Alca torda | |
| Dovekie | Alle alle | |
| Thick-billed Murre | Uria lomvia | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Murre | Uria aalge | |
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| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |
| Ross's Gull | Rhodostethia rosea | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Vulnerable |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Gull | Larus canus | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Vulnerable |
| Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | |
| Arctic Loon | Gavia arctica | |
| Common Loon | Gavia immer | |
| Yellow-billed Loon | Gavia adamsii | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| European Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | |
| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Vulnerable |
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| Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | |
| Cape Verde Petrel | Pterodroma feae | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Near-threatened |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | |
| Balearic Shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | Critically endangered |
| Barolo Shearwater | Puffinus baroli | Rare/Accidental |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | Rare/Accidental |
| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| European Shag | Gulosus aristotelis | |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| European Honey-buzzard | Pernis apivorus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Eurasian Goshawk | Astur gentilis | |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Red Kite | Milvus milvus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Rough-legged Hawk | Buteo lagopus | |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
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| Eurasian Scops-Owl | Otus scops | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Owl | Bubo scandiacus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | |
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| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
| Red-tailed Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides | Rare/Accidental |
| Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Gray Shrike | Lanius excubitor | Rare/Accidental |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | |
| Eurasian Jackdaw | Coloeus monedula | |
| Rook | Corvus frugilegus | |
| Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | |
| Hooded Crow | Corvus cornix | |
| Common Raven | Corvus corax | |
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| Coal Tit | Periparus ater | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | Cyanistes caeruleus | |
| Great Tit | Parus major | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wood Lark | Lullula arborea | |
| Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | Rare/Accidental |
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| Booted Warbler | Iduna caligata | Rare/Accidental |
| Sykes's Warbler | Iduna rama | Rare/Accidental |
| Melodious Warbler | Hippolais polyglotta | Rare/Accidental |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | |
| 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 | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler | Helopsaltes certhiola | Rare/Accidental |
| Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | Rare/Accidental |
| River Warbler | Locustella fluviatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Western House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| European Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis rufula | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |
| Western Bonelli's Warbler | Phylloscopus bonelli | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hume's Warbler | Phylloscopus humei | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallas's Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus proregulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Radde's Warbler | Phylloscopus schwarzi | Rare/Accidental |
| Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
| Iberian Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus ibericus | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Warbler | Phylloscopus nitidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Warbler | Phylloscopus borealis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | |
| Barred Warbler | Curruca nisoria | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | |
| Western Subalpine Warbler | Curruca iberiae | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Subalpine Warbler | Curruca cantillans | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Whitethroat | Curruca communis | |
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| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
| Common Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | |
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| Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
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| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | Rare/Accidental |
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| White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | Rare/Accidental |
| Veery | Catharus fuscescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | Rare/Accidental |
| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | |
| Black-throated Thrush | Turdus atrogularis | Rare/Accidental |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Rufous-tailed Robin | Larvivora sibilans | Rare/Accidental |
| Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | Rare/Accidental |
| Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
| Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | Rare/Accidental |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
| Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
| European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | |
| Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Amur Stonechat | Saxicola stejnegeri | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | Rare/Accidental |
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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 | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
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| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
| Blyth's Pipit | Anthus godlewskii | Rare/Accidental |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | Rare/Accidental |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | Rare/Accidental |
| Pechora Pipit | Anthus gustavi | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Water Pipit | Anthus spinoletta | |
| Rock Pipit | Anthus petrosus | |
| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |
| Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallas's Rosefinch | Carpodacus roseus | Uncertain origin |
| Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| Twite | Linaria flavirostris | |
| Eurasian Linnet | Linaria cannabina | |
| Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | |
| Parrot Crossbill | Loxia pytyopsittacus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | |
| White-winged Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| European Serin | Serinus serinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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| Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | |
| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | |
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| Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | Rare/Accidental |
| Corn Bunting | Emberiza calandra | Rare/Accidental |
| Cirl Bunting | Emberiza cirlus | |
| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | |
| Pine Bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | Rare/Accidental |
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |
| Cretzschmar's Bunting | Emberiza caesia | Rare/Accidental |
| Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | |
| Yellow-breasted Bunting | Emberiza aureola | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
| Little Bunting | Emberiza pusilla | |
| Rustic Bunting | Emberiza rustica | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Black-faced Bunting | Emberiza spodocephala | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-browed Bunting | Emberiza chrysophrys | Rare/Accidental |
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| Dark-eyed Junco | Junco hyemalis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-throated Sparrow | Zonotrichia albicollis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Yellow Warbler | Setophaga aestiva | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
References (partial list)
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