The full species accounts are currently in development and will follow the International Ornithological Congress taxonomy and order, as adopted by the British Ornithologist's Union from the 1st January 2018. The legacy accounts will appear below this new list until they have been replaced (and these follow the previous BOURC order). Click on any species highlighted in blue to access the species account.
Category A, B, C
3. Quail
4. Pheasant
5. Brent Goose
6. Canada Goose
8. Snow Goose
13. Mute Swan
14. Bewick's Swan
15. Whooper Swan
16. Egyptian Goose
17. Shelduck
18. Mandarin Duck
19. Garganey
20. Shoveler
21. Gadwall
22. Wigeon
23. Mallard
24. Pintail
25. Teal
26. Pochard
27. Tufted Duck
28. Scaup
29. Eider
30. Velvet Scoter
31. Common Scoter
32. Long-tailed Duck
33. Goldeneye
34. Smew
35. Goosander
37. Ruddy Duck
38. Nightjar
39. Alpine Swift
40. Swift
41. Pallid Swift
42. Cuckoo
43. Feral Pigeon
44. Stock Dove
45. Woodpigeon
46. Turtle Dove
47. Collared Dove
48. Water Rail
49. Corncrake
50. Baillon's Crake
51. Spotted Crake
52. Moorhen
53. Coot
54. Crane
55. Little Grebe
56. Red-necked Grebe
58. Slavonian Grebe
60. Stone Curlew
61. Oystercatcher
63. Avocet
64. Lapwing
76. Ruff
103. Glaucous Gull
106. Caspian Gull
107. Yellow-legged Gull
130. Great Northern Diver
135. Sooty Shearwater
137. Balearic Shearwater
139. White Stork
146. Night Heron
151. Grey Heron
152. Purple Heron
153. Great White Egret
154. Little Egret
155. Osprey
156. Honey Buzzard
157. Sparrowhawk
158. Goshawk
159. Marsh Harrier
160. Hen Harrier
161. Montagu's Harrier
162. Red Kite
163. Black Kite
164. White-tailed Eagle
165. Rough-legged Buzzard
166. Buzzard
167. Barn Owl
168. Tawny Owl
169. Little Owl
170. Long-eared Owl
171. Short-eared Owl
172. Hoopoe
173. Kingfisher
175. Bee-eater
176. Wryneck
177. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
179. Green Woodpecker
180. Kestrel
181. Red-footed Falcon
182. Merlin
183. Hobby
184. Gyr Falcon
185. Peregrine
186. Ring-necked Parakeet
187. Red-backed Shrike
188. Great Grey Shrike
189. Woodchat Shrike
190. Golden Oriole
191. Jay
192. Magpie
193. Jackdaw
194. Rook
195. Carrion Crow
196. Hooded Crow
197. Raven
198. Waxwing
199. Coal Tit
200. Marsh Tit
201. Willow Tit
202. Blue Tit
203. Great Tit
204. Bearded Tit
205. Wood Lark
206. Skylark
207. Shore Lark
208. Sand Martin
209. Swallow
210. House Martin
211. Red-rumped Swallow
212. Cetti's Warbler
213. Long-tailed Tit
214. Wood Warbler
235. Dartford Warbler
273. Richard's Pipit
278. Water Pipit
282. Hawfinch
301. Crag Martin
Legacy species accounts
41. Fulmar
44. Manx Shearwater
46. Storm Petrel
47. Leach's Petrel
48. Gannet
49. Cormorant
50. Shag
51. Common Bittern
53. Green Heron
54. Squacco Heron
55. Cattle Egret
60. Black Stork
62. Spoonbill
98. Ringed Plover
99. Dotterel
100. Golden Plover
101. Grey Plover
103. Knot
104. Sanderling
105. Little Stint
106. Temminck's Stint
107. Curlew Sandpiper
108. Purple Sandpiper
109. Dunlin
111. Jack Snipe
112. Common Snipe
113. Woodcock
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
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
142. Iceland 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. Puffin195. Firecrest
211. Greenish Warbler
212. Arctic Warbler
213. Pallas's Warbler
215. Dusky Warbler
217. Chiffchaff
218. Willow Warbler
219. Blackcap
220. Garden Warbler
221. Barred Warbler
222. Lesser Whitethroat
223. Common Whitethroat
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
267. Tawny Pipit
268. Olive-backed Pipit
269. Tree Pipit
270. Meadow Pipit
271. Rock 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
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