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wellinghall ([personal profile] wellinghall) wrote2016-07-12 07:46 pm
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Birds seen in Orkney

Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)
Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)


Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Canada goose (Branta canadensis)
Carrion crow (Corvus corone)
Common blackbird (Turdus merula)
Common buzzard (Buteo buteo)

Common eider (Somateria mollissima)
Common guillemot (Uria aalge)
Common gull (Larus canus)
Common house martin (Delichon urbicum)
Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

Common raven (Corvus corax)
Common redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
Common redshank (Tringa totanus)
Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata
Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

Eurasian rock pipit (Anthus petrosus)
Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
European herring gull (Larus argentatus)
European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)

Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Great skua (Stercorarius skua)
Greylag goose (Anser anser)
Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus)

Hooded crow (Corvus cornix)
House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus)
Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Mute swan (Cygnus olor)
Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Northern gannet (Morus bassanus)
Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Razorbill (Alca torda)
Ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Rock dove (Columba livia)
Sand martin (Riparia riparia)

Sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
Twite (Linaria flavirostris)
Western jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)
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[personal profile] hhimring 2016-07-13 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
It must be the Parliament of Fowls!

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2016-07-13 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
It must be more sensible than the one in Westminster.