Staffordshire Year List 2024

                                                 Current Total 214

                             Birds in red are description required species

Canada Goose

Grey Lag Goose

Brent Goose  -  3 March

Barnacle Goose

Pink-footed Goose

White-fronted Goose  -  11 February

Mute Swan 

Whooper Swan

Egyptian Geese

Shelduck

Mandarin

Shoveler

Gadwall

Wigeon

American Wigeon  -  17 Nov

Mallard

Pintail

Garganey

Teal

Green-winged Teal  -  12 March

Pochard

Red-crested Pochard

Tufted Duck

Scaup

Lesser Scaup  - 18 August

Common Scoter

Goldeneye

Smew

Goosander

Red-breasted Merganser - 9 January

Red Grouse

Grey Partridge

Pheasant

Red-legged Partridge

Quail

Nightjar

Swift

Cuckoo

Feral Pigeon

Stock Dove

Wood Pigeon

Collared Dove

Water Rail

Spotted Crake  -  25 May

Moorhen

Coot

Common Crane  -  8 May

Little Grebe

Slavonian Grebe  -  14 January

Black-necked Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

Oystercatcher

Avocet

Lapwing

American Golden Plover  -  29 May

Golden Plover

Grey Plover

Little Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover

Curlew

Whimbrel

Black-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit, 

Turnstone

Knot

Ruff

Curlew Sandpiper

Little Stint

Temmink's Stint  -  12 May

Dunlin

Sanderling

Pectoral Sandpiper  -  29 August

Woodcock

Jack Snipe

Snipe

Red-necked Phalarope  -  2 August

Common Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Redshank

Spotted Redshank

Greenshank

Kittiwake

Black-headed Gull

Little Gull

Mediterranean Gull

Common Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Iceland Gull - 1 January

Herring Gull

Caspian Gull

Yellow-legged Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Common Tern

Sandwich Tern

Arctic Tern

Little Tern

Black Tern

Roseate Tern  -  9 September

Great Northern Diver - 1 January

Red-throated Diver  -  22 April

Cormorant

Shag - 1 January

Glossy Ibis  -  24 March

Spoonbill  -  10 April

Bittern  -  10 February

Cattle Egret

Great Egret

Little Egret

Grey Heron

Osprey

Sparrowhawk

Goshawk - 1 January

Marsh Harrier

Hen Harrier

Red Kite

Buzzard

Honey Buzzard  -  28 June

Kestrel

Merlin

Hobby

Peregrine

Barn Owl

Little Owl

Short-eared Owl

Long-eared Owl

Tawny Owl

Kingfisher

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker  -  February

Green Woodpecker

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Great Grey Shrike  -  19 Oct

Jay

Magpie

Jackdaw

Rook

Carrion Crow

Raven

Waxwing - 1 January

Coat Tit

Marsh Tit

Willow Tit

Blue Tit

Great Tit

Long-tailed Tit

Bearded Tit  -  14 Nov

Woodlark

Skylark

Swallow

Sand Martin

House Martin

Cetti's Warbler

Chiffchaff

Willow Warbler

Wood Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler  -  13 Oct

Dartford Warbler

Whitethroat

Lesser Whitethroat

Blackcap

Garden Warbler

Sedge Warbler

Reed Warbler

Marsh Warbler  -  24 May

Paddyfield Warbler - 28 July BBRC

Grasshopper Warbler

Savi's Warbler  -  1 May BBRC

Firecrest - 7 January

Goldcrest

Wren

Nuthatch

Treecreeper

Starling

Song Thrush

Mistle Thrush

Redwing

Ring Ouzel

Blackbird

Fieldfare

Robin

Spotted Flycatcher

Pied Flycatcher

Redstart

Black Redstart  -  29 March

Stonechat

Whinchat

Wheatear

Dipper

Tree Sparrow

House Sparrow

Dunnock

Grey Wagtail

Yellow Wagtail

Pied Wagtail

Meadow Pipit

Tree Pipit

Water Pipit  -  8 April

Scandinavian Rock Pipit  -  12 March

Chaffinch

Brambling

Bullfinch

Hawfinch  -  5 May

Goldfinch

Greenfinch

Linnet

Lesser Redpoll

Common Redpoll

Crossbill

Siskin

Yellowhammer

Snow Bunting  -  7 Nov

Reed Bunting

Corn Bunting