Birds

by Alun ap Rhisiart — last modified Aug 28, 2010 05:57 PM

: Buzzard

Birds are one of the most conspicuous and easily identified froms of wildlife to be seen. Thanks to a good variety of habitat, a large number of species is to be found on the peninsula, the sea lochs and on the Clyde itself, including:

: Great spotted woodpecker

Red-throated diver, great crested grebe,

: Mute swan

little grebe, gannet, cormorant, shag, heron, mallard, teal, widgeon, scaup, tufted duck, pochard, goldeneye, eider, red-breasted merganser, shelduck, greylag goose, whitefront goose, pink-footed goose, Canada goose, mute swan, Whooper’s swan, buzzard, sparrowhawk, kestrel, hen harrier, red grouse, black grouse, moorhen, coot, oystercatcher, lapwing, ringed plover, turnstone, snipe, woodcock, curlew, common sandpiper, redshank, knot, dunlin, great black-backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, common gull, black-headed gull, common tern, arctic tern, sandwich tern, guillemot, black guillemot, razorbill, collared dove, wood pigeon, feral (or rock) pigeon, cuckoo, barn owl, short-eared owl, tawny owl, swift, great spotted woodpecker, skylark, swallow, house martin, raven, hooded crow, carrion crow, rook, jackdaw, jay, magpie, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, long-tailed tit, treecreeper, wren, dipper, fieldfare redwing, mistle thrush, song thrush, blackbird, robin, wheatear, stonechat, whinchat, grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, garden warbler, blackcap, whitethroat, willow warbelr, chiffchaff, wood warbler, goldcrest, dunnock, spotted flycatcher, meadow pipit, rock pipit, pied wagtail, white wagtail, grey wagtail, greenfinch, goldfinch, siskin, linnet, redpoll, chaffinch, bullfinch, bramling, yellow hammer, reed bunting, house sparrow, starling.

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