Devil Birder

A personal account of British birding

2009 British Year List

 SEE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF NEW BLOG FOR 2010 CHRONOLOGICAL YEAR LIST

Here is my British year list for 2009 in chronological order.

Bold= Scarce/uncommon/highlight

BOLD CAPS=scarcer/rare but not BB rarity

RED, BOLD AND CAPITALS=BB rarity

*= British lifer **=British and world lifer

1. Collared Dove

2. Magpie

3. Carrion Crow

4. Robin

5. Woodpigeon

6. Black-headed Gull

7. Song Thrush

8. Blackbird

9. Blue Tit

10. Feral Pigeon

11. Greenfinch

12. Dunnock

13. Starling

14. Goldfinch

15. Bullfinch

16. Long-tailed Tit

17. Mistle Thrush

18. House Sparrow

19. Common Gull

20. Coot

21. Mallard

22. Canada Goose

23. Moorhen 

24. Pied Wagtail

25. Mute Swan

26. Tufted Duck

27. Goosander

28. Teal

29. Goldeneye

30. Pochard

31. Cormorant

32. Lesser Black-backed Gull

33. Great Black-backed Gull

34. Great Crested Grebe

35. Herring Gull

36. Chaffinch

37. Willow Tit

38. Great Tit

39. Reed Bunting

40. Gadwall

41. Wigeon

42. Shoveler

43. Lapwing

44. Grey Heron

45. Kestrel

46. Waxwing

47. Common Buzzard

48. Common Snipe

49. Wren

50. Jay

51. Treecreeper

52. Goldcrest

53. Little Grebe

54. Jackdaw

55. Rook

56. Coal Tit

57. Nuthatch

58. Redwing

59. Kingfisher

60. Hawfinch

61. Great Spotted Woodpecker

62. Shelduck

63. Fieldfare

64. Pheasant

65. Whooper Swan

66. Pintail

67. Greylag Goose

68. Bewick's Swan

69. Ruff

70. Pink-footed Goose

71. Meadow Pipit

72. Green Woodpecker

73. Ring-necked Parakeet

74. Water Rail

75. Water Pipit

76. Firecrest

77. Egyptian Goose

78. Chiffchaff

79. Linnet

80. Skylark

81. Stonechat

82. Grey Wagtail

83. Little Egret

84. Long-eared Owl

85. Yellow-legged Gull

86. Peregrine

87. Stock Dove

88. Common Scoter

89. Oystercatcher

90. Red-breasted Merganser

91. Eider**

92. Scaup**

93. Smew

94. Turnstone

95. Redshank

96. KING EIDER**

97. Guillemot

98. Red-throated Diver**

99. Red-legged Partridge

100. Kittiwake

101. Tree Sparrow

102. Green Sandpiper

103. Woodcock

104. Tawny Owl

105. Mandarin

106. Brambling

107. Great Northern Diver 

108 Sparrowhawk

109. Marsh Harrier

110. Glaucous Gull**

111. Little Gull

112. Golden Plover

113. Iceland Gull

114 Curlew

115. Slavonian Grebe

116. Bittern

117. Ruddy Duck

118. Siskin

119. Little Owl

120. Lesser Redpoll

121. Brent Goose

122. Mediterranean Gull

123. Grey Plover

124. Dunlin

125. Bar-tailed Godwit

126. Ringed Plover

127. Knot

128. Black-necked Grebe

129. Rock Pipit

130. RED-BREASTED GOOSE**

131. (Tundra) Bean Goose**

132. Goshawk**

133. Woodlark

134. Blackcap

135. Dartford Warbler

136. Hen Harrier

137. Purple Sandpiper**

138. RING-NECKED DUCK**

139. Black-tailed Godwit

140. Avocet

141. Cetti's Warbler

142. Wheatear

143. Raven

144. Bearded Tit

145. Black Redstart

146. GREAT GREY SHRIKE

147. Barn Owl

148. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

149. WIllow Warbler

150. Sand Martin

151. Swallow

152. Little Ringed Plover

153. Garganey

154. House Martin

155. Common Whitethroat

156. Yellow Wagtail

157. Yellowhammer

158. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW**

159. Sedge Warbler

160. Jack Snipe

161. Velvet Scoter**

162. Common Tern

163. Reed Warbler

164. Lesser Whitethroat

165. Whimbrel

166. Ring Ouzel

167. Arctic Tern

168. Red Kite

169. Common Sandpiper

170. Fulmar

171. Chough

172. Puffin**

173. Razorbill

174. Common Swift

175 Hobby

176. Whinchat

177 CRESTED LARK*

178 Wood Warbler*

179. Common Redstart

180. Sandwich Tern

181. Grey Partridge

182. Corn Bunting

183. Greenshank

184. Cuckoo

185. BLACK-WINGED PRATINCOLE**

186. Garden Warbler

187 WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN**

188. Shag

189. Gannet

190. RED-FOOTED FALCON**

191. Turtle Dove

192. Crossbill**

193. Tree Pipit**

194. HONEY BUZZARD*

195. Nightingale

196. Marsh Tit

197. Quail**

198. Spotted Flycatcher

199. European Nightjar

200. CASPIAN TERN**

201. GOLDEN ORIOLE**

202. STONE-CURLEW**

203. PECTORAL SANDPIPER

204. Black Tern

205. Roseate Tern**

206. Montagu's Harrier*

207. Common Crane

208. Wood Sandpiper

209. PURPLE HERON*

210. Curlew Sandpiper

211. Spoonbill

212. Little Tern

213. Spotted Redshank

214. SPOTTED CRAKE**

215. Osprey

216. Sanderling  

217. GLOSSY IBIS** 

218. Little Stint

219. RING-BILLED GULL**

220. WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER**

221. Red-necked Grebe**

222. WRYNECK*

223. CATTLE EGRET

224. BROWN SHRIKE**

225. Manx Shearwater

226. Great Skua

227. Merlin

228. MARSH WARBLER**

229. RICHARD'S PIPIT**

230. Snow Bunting

231. CITRINE WAGTAIL**

232. ROSY STARLING**

233. PALLAS'S WARBLER**

234. YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER**

235. SERIN

236. BLUETHROAT**

237. Shorelark

238. ZITTING CISTICOLA*

239. SPOTTED SANDPIPER**

240. PENDULINE TIT

241. GREAT WHITE EGRET

242. Mealy Redpoll**

243. White-fronted Goose**

Finishing total 243