The Folkestone & Hythe area bird list

The Folkestone & Hythe area bird list currently stands at 303 species.

The list is based on the sequence, taxonomy and vernacular names contained within the International Ornithological Congress (IOC) World Bird List, as adopted by the British Ornithologists’ Union from the 1st January 2018. Click on any species highlighted in blue to access the species account.

This first section contains all category A, B and C species, defined as follows:

Category A: species recorded locally in an apparently natural state at least once since 1 January 1950.

Category B: species recorded locally in an apparently natural state at least once between 1800 and 1949, but have not been recorded subsequently.

Category C1: naturalised introduced: species that have occurred only as a result of introduction, e.g. Egyptian Goose.

Category C2: naturalised established: species with established populations resulting from introduction, but which also occur in an apparently natural state, e.g. Greylag Goose.

Category C3: naturalised re-established: species with populations successfully re-established in areas of former occurrence, e.g. Red Kite.

Category C4: naturalised feral: domesticated species with populations established in the wild, e.g. Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon.

Category C5: vagrant naturalised: species from established naturalised populations abroad. There are currently no species in category C5 that have occurred in Britain.

Category C6: former naturalised: species formerly placed in C1 whose naturalised populations are either no longer self-sustaining or are considered extinct.

The status for each species is defined as follows:

Very rare: has occurred locally on between one and 15 occasions.

Rare: has occurred locally on between 16 and 50 occasions.

Scarce: has occurred locally on more than 50 occasions but on less than ten occasions per year on average.

1. Red-legged Partridge

2. Grey Partridge

6. Canada Goose

7. Barnacle Goose

9. Greylag Goose

10. Pink-footed Goose

11. Tundra Bean Goose

12. White-fronted Goose

14. Bewick’s Swan

15. Whooper Swan

16. Egyptian Goose

18. Mandarin Duck

25. Teal

27. Tufted Duck

30. Velvet Scoter

31. Common Scoter

32. Long-tailed Duck

34. Smew

36. Red-breasted Merganser

39. Alpine Swift

41. Pallid Swift

43. Feral Pigeon

46. Turtle Dove

47. Collared Dove

50. Baillon’s Crake

51. Spotted Crake

53. Coot

55. Little Grebe

56. Red-necked Grebe

57. Great Crested Grebe

58. Slavonian Grebe

59. Black-necked Grebe

60. Stone Curlew

61. Oystercatcher

62. Black-winged Stilt

65. Golden Plover

66. Grey Plover

67. Ringed Plover

68. Little Ringed Plover

72. Bar-tailed Godwit

73. Black-tailed Godwit

75. Knot

76. Ruff

77. Curlew Sandpiper

78. Temminck’s Stint

81. Purple Sandpiper

82. Little Stint

86. Red-necked Phalarope

87. Grey Phalarope

88. Common Sandpiper

89. Green Sandpiper

91. Wood Sandpiper

92. Spotted Redshank

94. Collared Pratincole

96. Sabine’s Gull

97. Black-headed Gull

98. Little Gull

99. Mediterranean Gull

100. Common Gull

101. Ring-billed Gull

102. Great Black-backed Gull

103. Glaucous Gull

104. Iceland Gull

105. Herring Gull

106. Caspian Gull

107. Yellow-legged Gull

108. Lesser Black-backed Gull

109. Gull-billed Tern

110. Caspian Tern

111. Lesser Crested Tern

112. Sandwich Tern

113. Little Tern

114. Roseate Tern

115. Common Tern

116. Arctic Tern

117. Forster’s Tern

118. White-winged Black Tern

119. Black Tern

120. Great Skua

121. Pomarine Skua

122. Arctic Skua

123. Long-tailed Skua

124. Little Auk

128. Red-throated Diver

129. Black-throated Diver

130. Great Northern Diver

131. Storm Petrel

132. Leach’s Petrel

134. Cory’s Shearwater

135. Sooty Shearwater

136. Manx Shearwater

137. Balearic Shearwater

138. Black Stork

139. White Stork

141. Shag

143. Glossy Ibis

146. Night Heron

147. Green Heron

148. Squacco Heron

149. Chinese Pond Heron

150. Cattle Egret

151. Grey Heron

152. Purple Heron

153. Great White Egret

154. Little Egret

156. Honey Buzzard

157. Sparrowhawk

159. Marsh Harrier

160. Hen Harrier

161. Montagu’s Harrier

163. Black Kite

164. White-tailed Eagle

165. Rough-legged Buzzard

169. Little Owl

170. Long-eared Owl

171. Short-eared Owl

173. Kingfisher

174. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

177. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

178. Great Spotted Woodpecker

179. Green Woodpecker

181. Red-footed Falcon

183. Hobby

184. Gyr Falcon

186. Ring-necked Parakeet

187. Red-backed Shrike

188. Great Grey Shrike

189. Woodchat Shrike

190. Golden Oriole

191. Jay

194. Rook

195. Carrion Crow

196. Hooded Crow

197. Raven

201. Willow Tit

204. Bearded Tit

207. Shore Lark

208. Sand Martin

210. House Martin

211. Red-rumped Swallow

212. Cetti’s Warbler

213. Long-tailed Tit

214. Wood Warbler

215. Yellow-browed Warbler

216. Pallas’s Warbler

217. Dusky Warbler

218. Willow Warbler

219. Chiffchaff

220. Greenish Warbler

221. Arctic Warbler

222. Sedge Warbler

223. Reed Warbler

224. Marsh Warbler

225. Booted Warbler

226. Melodious Warbler

227. Icterine Warbler

228. Grasshopper Warbler

230. Garden Warbler

231. Barred Warbler

232. Lesser Whitethroat

233. Asian Desert Warbler

234. Whitethroat

235. Dartford Warbler

238. Wren

239. Nut h atch

240. Treecreeper

241. Short-toed Treecreeper

242. Rose-coloured Starling

244. Ring Ouzel

248. Song Thrush

249. Mistle Thrush

250. Spotted Flycatcher

251. Robin

252. Bluethroat

253. Thrush Nightingale

254. Nightingale

255. Pied Flycatcher

256. Red-breasted Flycatcher

257. Black Redstart

262. Isabelline Wheatear

263. Desert Wheatear

265. House Sparrow

266. Tree Sparrow

268. Yellow Wagtail

269. Grey Wagtail

270. Pied Wagtail

271. Richard’s Pipit

272. Tawny Pipit

273. Meadow Pipit

274. Tree Pipit

275. Olive-backed Pipit

276. Water Pipit

277. Rock Pipit

282. Common Rosefinch

283. Greenfinch

284. Twite

286. Common Redpoll

287. Lesser Redpoll

290. Serin

292. Lapland Bunting

293. Snow Bunting

294. Corn Bunting

295. Yellowhammer

296. Ortolan Bunting

297. Cirl Bunting

298. Reed Bunting

299. Dark-eyed Junco

This second section contains the most recent additions to category A:

300. Crag Martin

301. Black Guillemot

302. Pallid Harrier

303. Hume’s Warbler

This third section contains all category D species, defined as follows:

Category D: species that would otherwise appear in category A except that there is reasonable doubt that they have ever occurred in a natural state.

D01. Bufflehead

D02. Great White Pelican

This fourth section contains records that could only be assigned to species pairs or groups:

S01. Eastern Subalpine/Western Subalpine/Moltoni’s Warbler

S02. Western Black-eared/Eastern Black-eared/Pied Wheatear

S03. Siberian/Stejneger’s Stonechat

This fifth section contains species that are no longer accepted:

N01 – Band-rumped/Monteiro’s/Cape Verde Storm-petrel

N02 – Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin