CHECKLIST BIRDING HOLLAND


Full day of birding Brabant province with a few sites on the way.


Date: May 1st 2008


Guide: Pieter






1.Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis

2.Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus

3.Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis

4.Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo

5.Gray HeronArdea cinerea

6.Purple HeronArdea purperea

7.Little EgretEgretta garzetta

8.White StorkCiconia ciconia

9.Mute SwanCygnus olor

10.Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons

11.Greylag GooseAnser anser

12.Canada GooseBranta canadensis

13.Common ShelduckTadorna tadorna

14.Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope

15.GadwallAnas strepera

16.MallardAnas platyrhynchos

17.GarganeyAnas querquedula

18.Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata

19.Red-crested PochardNetta rufina

20.Common PochardAythya ferina

21.Tufted DuckAythya fuligula

22.Northern GoshawkAccipiter gentilis

23.Eurasian BuzzardButeo buteo

24.Eurasian KestrelFalco tinnunculus

25.Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteo

26.Water RailRallus aquaticus
Heard only
27.Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus

28.Eurasian CootFulica atra

29.Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus

30.Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta

31.Northern LapwingVanellus vanellus

32.Little Ringed PloverCharadrius dubius

33.Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa

34.WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus

35.Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata

36.Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus

37.Common RedshankTringa totanus

38.Common GreenshankTringa nebularia

39.Wood SandpiperTringa glareola

40.RuffPhilomachus pugnax

41.Mew GullLarus canus

42.Herring GullLarus argentatus

43.Lesser Black-backed GullLarus graellsii

44.Black-headed GullLarus ridibundus

45.Common TernSterna hirundo

46.Stock PigeonColumba oenas

47.Common Wood-PigeonColumba palumbus

48.Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto

49.Common CuckooCuculus canorus

50.Common SwiftApus apus

51.Lesser Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocops minor

52.Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major

53.Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius

54.Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
Heard only
55.Sky LarkAlauda arvensis

56.Barn SwallowHirundo rustica

57.House MartinDelichon urbica

58.White WagtailMotacilla alba

59.Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava

60.Tree PipitAnthus trivialis

61.Winter WrenTroglodytes troglodytes

62.DunnockPrunella modularis

63.Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula

64.Song ThrushTurdus philomelos

65.Savi's WarblerLocustella luscinioides

66.Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus

67.Eurasian Reed-WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus

68.Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus

69.Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita

70.BlackcapSylvia atricapilla

71.Greater WhitethroatSylvia communis

72.European RobinErithacus rubecula

73.Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus

74.Common StonechatSaxicola rubicola

75.Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe

76.Crested TitLophophanes cristatus

77.Great TitParus major

78.Blue TitParus caeruleus

79.Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea

80.Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius

81.Eurasian MagpiePica pica

82.Eurasian JackdawCorvus monedula

83.Carrion CrowCorvus corone

84.European StarlingSturnus vulgaris

85.House SparrowPasser domesticus

86.Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus

87.ChaffinchFringilla coelebs

88.European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis

89.Eurasian LinnetCarduelis cannabina

90.Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus

91.Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra







Introduced or escaped species (not countable):

92.Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiacus

93.Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus

94.Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus

© Birding Holland 2008