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Britain receives a number of vagrants from Asia and North America. Some American gulls, ducks and waders are regular enough not to be considered rare, including the ring-billed gull, surf scoter and pectoral sandpiper. There is one endemic bird species found in Great Britain: the Scottish crossbill.
The list below comprises all those bird species which have occurred in a wild state in Great Britain. Escaped birds of certain species, e.g. ruddy shelduck, can cause confusion amongst birdwatchers as they occasionally occur in Britain as wild birds. The following species have established colonies in the UK at some point in time.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in England.The avifauna of England include a total of 625 species, of which 14 have been introduced by humans.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of British Ornithologists' Union (BOU).
O'Shea, Brian (2000) In Search of Birds in Wales, Skylark Books, Aberystwyth. Perrins, Christopher, ed. (2004) The New Encyclopedia of Birds, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Prater & Thorpe (2006) Welsh Species List. Accessed 22 April 2008. Pugh, Elfyn (2005) The Red Kite Archived 2010-01-30 at the Wayback Machine, Birds of Britain. Accessed ...
Britain has few endemic species of birds but quite a few subspecies. A few Arctic-Alpine species have subspecies in the British Isles, some have been in the islands since the last Ice Age, but many spread in the immediate Sub-Arctic conditions as the ice retreated. Furthermore, these species were later reinforced by newer arrivals as the ...
The British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC), established in 1959, is the national bird rarities committee for Britain. It assesses claimed sightings of bird species that are rarely seen in Britain, based on descriptions, photographs and video recordings submitted by observers. Its findings are published in an annual report in the journal ...
List of UK BAP priority bird species. [1] Aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola), passage migrant through UK; Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) Corn crake (Crex crex), globally threatened; Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla) Great bittern (Botarus stellaris) Grey partridge (Perdix perdix) Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) Eurasian skylark ...
Pages in category "Birds in the United Kingdom" ... List of birds of Great Britain * Birds of Cornwall; B. Bee-eaters in Britain; Birds Britannia; British avifauna; C.