The British Ornithologist's Union has adopted the International Ornithological Congress taxonomy with effect from the 1st January 2018. This has resulted in the area list being reduced by one species, with Lesser and Common Redpoll now being treated as subspecies.
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1. Mute Swan
3. Whooper Swan
4. Bean Goose
8. Snow Goose
10. Barnacle Goose
11. Brent Goose
12. Egyptian Goose
13. Shelduck
14. Mandarin Duck
15. Wigeon
16. Gadwall
17. Teal
18. Mallard
19. Pintail
20. Garganey
21. Shoveler
22. Pochard
23. Tufted Duck
24. Scaup
25. Eider
26. Long-tailed Duck
27. Common Scoter
28. Velvet Scoter
29. Goldeneye
30. Smew
32. Goosander
33. Ruddy Duck
35. Grey Partridge
36. Quail
37. Pheasant
41. Fulmar
43. Sooty Shearwater
44. Manx Shearwater
46. Storm Petrel
47. Leach's Petrel
48. Gannet
49. Cormorant
50. Shag
51. Common Bittern
52. Night Heron
53. Green Heron
54. Squacco Heron
55. Cattle Egret
56. Little Egret
58. Grey Heron
59. Purple Heron
60. Black Stork
61. White Stork
62. Spoonbill
63. Little Grebe
65. Red-necked Grebe
66. Slavonian Grebe
68. Honey Buzzard
69. Black Kite
70. Red Kite
72. Marsh Harrier
73. Hen Harrier
75. Goshawk
76. Sparrowhawk
77. Common Buzzard
79. Osprey
80. Kestrel
82. Merlin
83. Hobby
84. Gyr Falcon
85. Peregrine
86. Water Rail
87. Spotted Crake
88. Baillon's Crake
89. Corncrake
90. Moorhen
91. Coot
92. Common Crane
93. Oystercatcher
95. Avocet
96. Stone Curlew
98. Ringed Plover
99. Dotterel
100. Golden Plover
101. Grey Plover
102. Lapwing
103. Knot
104. Sanderling
105. Little Stint
106. Temminck's Stint
107. Curlew Sandpiper
108. Purple Sandpiper
109. Dunlin
110. Ruff
111. Jack Snipe
112. Common Snipe
113. Woodcock
114. Black-tailed Godwit
115. Bar-tailed Godwit
116. Whimbrel
117. Curlew
118. Common Sandpiper
119. Green Sandpiper
120. Spotted Redshank
121. Greenshank
122. Wood Sandpiper
123. Redshank
124. Turnstone
125. Red-necked Phalarope
126. Grey Phalarope
127. Pomarine Skua
128. Arctic Skua
129. Long-tailed Skua
130. Great Skua
131. Sabine's Gull
132. Kittiwake
133. Black-headed Gull
134. Little Gull
135. Mediterranean Gull
136. Common Gull
137. Ring-billed Gull
139. Herring Gull
140. Yellow-legged Gull
141. Caspian Gull
142. Iceland Gull
143. Glaucous Gull
145. Little Tern
146. Gull-billed Tern
147. Caspian Tern
148. Black Tern
150. Sandwich Tern
151. Lesser Crested Tern
152. Common Tern
153. Roseate Tern
154. Arctic Tern
155. Guillemot
156. Razorbill
157. Little Auk
158. Puffin
159. Feral Pigeon
160. Stock Dove
161. Wood Pigeon
162. Collared Dove
163. Turtle Dove
164. Ring-necked Parakeet
165. Cuckoo
166. Barn Owl
167. Little Owl
168. Tawny Owl
169. Long-eared Owl
170. Short-eared Owl
171. Nightjar
172. Common Swift
173. Pallid Swift
174. Alpine Swift
175. Kingfisher
177. European Bee-eater
178. Hoopoe
179. Wryneck
180. Green Woodpecker
182. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
183. Golden Oriole
184. Red-backed Shrike
185. Great Grey Shrike
186. Woodchat Shrike
187. Magpie
188. Jay
189. Jackdaw
190. Rook
191. Carrion Crow
192. Hooded Crow
193. Raven
194. Goldcrest
195. Firecrest
196. Blue Tit
197. Great Tit
198. Coal Tit
199. Willow Tit
200. Marsh Tit
201. Bearded Tit
202. Wood Lark
203. Sky Lark
204. Shore Lark
205. Sand Martin
206. Swallow
207. House Martin
208. Red-rumped Swallow
209. Cetti's Warbler
210. Long-tailed Tit
211. Greenish Warbler
212. Arctic Warbler
213. Pallas's Warbler
215. Dusky Warbler
216. Wood Warbler
217. Chiffchaff
218. Willow Warbler
219. Blackcap
220. Garden Warbler
221. Barred Warbler
222. Lesser Whitethroat
223. Common Whitethroat
224. Dartford Warbler
225. Subalpine Warbler
226. Grasshopper Warbler
227. Booted Warbler
228. Icterine Warbler
229. Melodious Warbler
230. Sedge Warbler
231. Marsh Warbler
232. Reed Warbler
233. Waxwing
234. Nuthatch
235. Common Treecreeper
236. Wren
237. Starling
238. Dipper
239. Ring Ouzel
240. Blackbird
241. Fieldfare
242. Song Thrush
243. Redwing
244. Mistle Thrush
245. Spotted Flycatcher
246. Robin
247. Thrush Nightingale
248. Nightingale
249. Bluethroat
251. Pied Flycatcher
252. Black Redstart
253. Common Redstart
254. Whinchat
255. Siberian Stonechat
256. Stonechat
257. Isabelline Wheatear
258. Northern Wheatear
259. Desert Wheatear
260. Dunnock
261. House Sparrow
262. Tree Sparrow
263. Yellow Wagtail
264. Grey Wagtail
265. Pied Wagtail
266. Richard's Pipit
267. Tawny Pipit
268. Olive-backed Pipit
269. Tree Pipit
270. Meadow Pipit
271. Rock Pipit
272. Water Pipit
273. Chaffinch
274. Brambling
275. Serin
276. Greenfinch
277. Goldfinch
278. Siskin
279. Linnet
280. Twite
281. Redpoll
282. Common Crossbill
283. Common Rosefinch
284. Bullfinch
285. Hawfinch
286. Snow Bunting
287. Lapland Bunting
288. Dark-eyed Junco
289. Yellowhammer
290. Cirl Bunting
291. Ortolan Bunting
292. Reed Bunting
293. Corn Bunting
Latest additions
296. Asian Desert Warbler
297. Collared Pratincole
298. Glossy Ibis
299. Chinese Pond Heron
300. Forster's Tern