Bird Names List and Examples

Bird Name List

Egyptian goose
Shelduck
Mandarin
Wood duck
Wigeon
Gadwall
Teal
Mallard
Pintail
Garganey
Shoveler
Red-crested pochard
Pochard
Tufted duck
Greater scaup
Eider
Long-tailed duck
Common scoter
Velvet scoter
Goldeneye
Smew
Red-breasted merganser
Goosander
Ruddy duck
White-headed duck
Pandionidae
Accipitridae
Red kite
White-tailed sea-eagle
Marsh harrier
Hen harrier
Montagu’s harrier
Goshawk
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Rough-legged buzzard
Golden eagle
Falconidae
American kestrel
Merlin
Hobby
Peregrine
Phasianidae
Ptarmigan
Black grouse
Capercaillie
Red-legged partridge
Grey partridge
Quail
Red-throated diver
Black-throated diver
Great northern diver
Little grebe
Great-crested grebe
Red-necked grebe
Slavonian grebe
Black-necked grebe
Fulmar
Manx shearwater
Storm petrel
Leach’s petrel
Common diving-petrel
Dalmatian pelican
Gannet
Cormorant
Shag
Little bittern
Bittern
Grey heron
Mute swan
Bewick’s swan
Whooper swan
Bean goose
Pink-footed goose
White-fronted goose
Greylag
Canada goose
Barnacle goose
Brent goose
Ring-necked pheasant
Golden pheasant
Lady Amherst’s pheasant
Crane
Water rail
Spotted crake
Baillon’s crake
Corncrake
Moorhen
Coot
Great bustard
Oystercatcher
Black-winged stilt
Avocet
Stone-curlew
Little ringed plover
Ringed plover
Dotterel
Golden plover
Grey plover
Lapwing
Knot
Sanderling
Temminck’s stint
Purple sandpiper
Dunlin
Ruff
Jack snipe
Snipe
Woodcock
Black-tailed godwit
Bar-tailed godwit
Whimbrel
Curlew
Spotted redshank
Redshank
Greenshank
Green sandpiper
Wood sandpiper
Common sandpiper
Spotted sandpiper
Turnstone
Red-necked phalarope
Arctic skua
Great skua
Little gull
Mediterranean gull
Rock pipit