The following species of birds have been recorded on the Isle of Man. They are listed alphabetically, in the order of their common English name. Those in bold text have bred in the wild at least once.
Those in italics are in either Category D (reasonable doubt that they have ever occurred in a natural state) or Category E (species recorded as introductions, transportees or escapes from captivity, and whose breeding populuations (if any) are thought not to be self-sustaining). One species on the list, Great Auk, is extinct.
Species reported in 2012: 151 (as of 22/4/12).
| Species | Seen this year |
| Alpine Swift | |
| American Golden Plover | |
| American Wigeon | |
| Aquatic Warbler | |
| Arctic Redpoll | |
| Arctic Skua | |
| Arctic Tern | Y |
| Avocet | |
| Baillon’s Crake | |
| Balearic Shearwater | |
| Baltimore Oriole | |
| Bar-headed Goose | Y |
| Barn Owl | Y |
| Barnacle Goose | Y |
| Barred Warbler | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Y |
| Bean Goose | |
| Bearded Tit | |
| Bee-eater | |
| Bewick’s Swan | |
| Bittern | |
| Black Grouse | |
| Black Guillemot | Y |
| Black Kite | |
| Black Redstart | Y |
| Black Swan | |
| Black Tern | |
| Blackbird | Y |
| Blackcap | Y |
| Black-eared Wheatear | |
| Black-headed Bunting | |
| Black-headed Gull | Y |
| Black-necked Grebe | |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Y |
| Black-throated Diver | Y |
| Blue Tit | Y |
| Bluethroat | |
| Brambling | Y |
| Brent Goose | Y |
| Bridled Tern | |
| Budgerigar | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | |
| Bullfinch | |
| Buzzard | Y |
| Calandra Lark | |
| Canada Goose | Y |
| Carrion Crow | Y |
| Cattle Egret | |
| Chaffinch | Y |
| Chiffchaff | Y |
| Chough | Y |
| Cirl Bunting | |
| Coal Tit | Y |
| Collared Dove | Y |
| Common Bobwhite | |
| Common Crossbill | Y |
| Common Gull | Y |
| Common Rosefinch | |
| Common Sandpiper | Y |
| Common Scoter | Y |
| Common Tern | |
| Coot | Y |
| Cormorant | Y |
| Corn Bunting | |
| Corncrake | |
| Cory’s Shearwater | |
| Crane | |
| Cuckoo | Y |
| Curlew | Y |
| Curlew Sandpiper | |
| Desert Wheatear | |
| Dipper | |
| Dotterel | |
| Dunlin | Y |
| Dunnock | Y |
| Dusky Warbler | |
| Egyptian Goose | |
| Eider | Y |
| Ferruginous Duck | |
| Fieldfare | Y |
| Firecrest | |
| Flamingo sp. | |
| Fulmar | Y |
| Gadwall | Y |
| Gannet | Y |
| Garden Warbler | |
| Garganey | |
| Glaucous Gull | Y |
| Goldcrest | Y |
| Golden Eagle | |
| Golden Oriole | |
| Golden Pheasant | |
| Golden Plover | Y |
| Goldeneye | Y |
| Goldfinch | Y |
| Goosander | Y |
| Goshawk | |
| Grasshopper Warbler | Y |
| [Great Auk] | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Y |
| Great Crested Grebe | Y |
| Great Grey Shrike | |
| Great Horned Owl | |
| Great Northern Diver | Y |
| Great Shearwater | |
| Great Skua | Y |
| Great Snipe | |
| Great Spotted Cuckoo | |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Y |
| Great Tit | Y |
| Great White Egret | |
| Great White Pelican | |
| Green Sandpiper | |
| Green Woodpecker | |
| Greenfinch | Y |
| Greenish Warbler | |
| Greenshank | Y |
| Green-winged Teal | |
| Grey Heron | Y |
| Grey Partridge | |
| Grey Phalarope | |
| Grey Plover | Y |
| Grey Wagtail | Y |
| Greylag Goose | Y |
| Guillemot | Y |
| Gyr Falcon | |
| Hawfinch | |
| Hen Harrier | Y |
| Herring Gull | Y |
| Hill Myna | |
| Hobby | |
| Honey-buzzard | |
| Hooded Crow | Y |
| Hoopoe | |
| House Martin | Y |
| House Sparrow | Y |
| Iceland Gull | Y |
| Icterine Warbler | |
| Jack Snipe | Y |
| Jackdaw | Y |
| Jay | |
| Kentish Plover | |
| Kestrel | Y |
| King Eider | |
| Kingfisher | Y |
| Kittiwake | Y |
| Knot | Y |
| Lady Amherst’s Pheasant | |
| Lapland Bunting | Y |
| Lapwing | Y |
| Leach’s Petrel | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Y |
| Lesser Redpoll | Y |
| Lesser White-fronted Goose | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | |
| Linnet | Y |
| Little Auk | Y |
| Little Bittern | |
| Little Bunting | |
| Little Egret | Y |
| Little Grebe | Y |
| Little Gull | |
| Little Owl | |
| Little Ringed Plover | |
| Little Stint | |
| Little Tern | |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | |
| Long-eared Owl | Y |
| Long-tailed Duck | Y |
| Long-tailed Rosefinch | |
| Long-tailed Skua | |
| Long-tailed Tit | Y |
| Magnificent Frigatebird | |
| Magpie | Y |
| Mallard | Y |
| Mandarin Duck | |
| Manx Shearwater | Y |
| Marsh Harrier | |
| Marsh Tit | |
| Marsh Warbler | |
| Meadow Pipit | Y |
| Mealy Redpoll | Y |
| Mediterranean Gull | |
| Melodious Warbler | |
| Merlin | Y |
| Mistle Thrush | Y |
| Moorhen | Y |
| Mourning Dove | |
| Mute Swan | Y |
| Night-heron | |
| Nightingale | |
| Nightjar | |
| North Atlantic Little Shearwater | |
| Nuthatch | |
| Olive-backed Pipit | |
| Ortolan Bunting | |
| Osprey | Y |
| Oystercatcher | Y |
| Pallas’s Warbler | |
| Pallas’s Sandgrouse | |
| Pechora Pipit | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | |
| Peregrine | Y |
| Pheasant | Y |
| Pied Flycatcher | |
| Pied Wagtail | Y |
| Pink-footed Goose | Y |
| Pintail | |
| Pochard | Y |
| Pomarine Skua | |
| Puffin | Y |
| Purple Heron | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Y |
| Quail | |
| Raven | Y |
| Razorbill | Y |
| Red Grouse | Y |
| Red Kite | |
| Red-backed Shrike | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | |
| Red-breasted Goose | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Y |
| Red-crested Pochard | |
| Red-footed Falcon | |
| Red-headed Bunting | |
| Red-legged Partridge | Y |
| Red-necked Grebe | Y |
| Red-necked Phalarope | |
| Redshank | Y |
| Redstart | Y |
| Red-throated Diver | Y |
| Red-throated Pipit | |
| Redwing | Y |
| Red-winged Laughingthrush | |
| Reed Bunting | Y |
| Reed Warbler | |
| Richard’s Pipit | |
| Ring Ouzel | |
| Ring-billed Gull | |
| Ringed Plover | Y |
| Ring-necked Duck | |
| Robin | Y |
| Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon | |
| Rock Pipit | Y |
| Roller | |
| Rook | Y |
| Roseate Tern | |
| Rose-coloured Starling | |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | |
| Ross’s Goose | |
| Rosy-billed Pochard | |
| Rough-legged Buzzard | |
| Ruddy Duck | |
| Ruff | |
| Rustic Bunting | |
| Sabine’s Gull | |
| Sand Martin | Y |
| Sanderling | Y |
| Sandwich Tern | Y |
| Sardinian Warbler | |
| Scarlet Ibis | |
| Scaup | Y |
| Scops Owl | |
| Sedge Warbler | Y |
| Serin | |
| Shag | Y |
| Shelduck | Y |
| Shore Lark | |
| Short-eared Owl | Y |
| Shoveler | Y |
| Siskin | Y |
| Skylark | Y |
| Slavonian Grebe | |
| Smew | |
| Snipe | Y |
| Snow Bunting | Y |
| Snow Goose | |
| Snowy Owl | |
| Song Sparrow | |
| Song Thrush | Y |
| Sooty Shearwater | |
| Southern Grey Shrike | |
| Sparrowhawk | Y |
| Spoonbill | |
| Spotted Crake | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | |
| Spotted Redshank | |
| Starling | Y |
| Stilt Sandpiper | |
| Stock Dove | Y |
| Stonechat | Y |
| Stone-curlew | |
| Storm Petrel | |
| Subalpine Warbler | |
| Surf Scoter | |
| Swallow | Y |
| Swift | |
| Tawny Owl | Y |
| Tawny Pipit | |
| Teal | Y |
| Temminck’s Stint | |
| Thrush Nightingale | |
| Tree Pipit | |
| Tree Sparrow | Y |
| Treecreeper | Y |
| Tufted Duck | Y |
| Turnstone | Y |
| Turtle Dove | |
| Twite | Y |
| Velvet Scoter | Y |
| Water Pipit | |
| Water Rail | |
| Waxwing | |
| Western Bonelli’s Warbler | |
| Wheatear | Y |
| Whimbrel | Y |
| Whinchat | |
| White Stork | |
| White-fronted Goose | Y |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | |
| White-tailed Eagle | |
| Whitethroat | |
| White-throated Robin | |
| White-throated Sparrow | |
| Whooper Swan | Y |
| Wigeon | Y |
| Willow Warbler | Y |
| Wilson’s Phalarope | |
| Wood Duck | |
| Wood Sandpiper | |
| Wood Warbler | |
| Woodchat Shrike | |
| Woodcock | Y |
| Woodlark | |
| Woodpigeon | Y |
| Wren | Y |
| Wryneck | |
| Yellow Wagtail | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | |
| Yellow-billed Grosbeak | |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | |
| Yellowhammer | Y |
| Yellow-legged Gull | |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
If you see a species this year that doesn’t have a ‘Y’ in the ‘Seen this year’ column, please do send in a report.
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