The Helm Guide to Bird Identification

Whooper and Bewick's Swans, Grey geese; Snow and Ross's Geese; Canada and Cackling Geese; Brent Geese; Mandarin and Wood Ducks; Eurasian and American Wigeon; Large dabbling ducks in late summer and autumn: Mallard, Gadwall, Pintail and Shoveler; Small dabbling ducks: Common, Green-winged and Blue-winged Teals, and Garganey; Aythya ducks: Greater and Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck and hybrids; Eiders: females, immatures and eclipse males; Scoters; Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser; Divers; Great and Cory's Shearwaters; Manx, Balearic and Sooty Shearwaters; Storm, Leach's and Wilson's Petrels; Slavonian, Black-necked and Red-necked Grebes; Bittern and Night Heron; Purple Heron; Egrets; Cormorant and Shag; Red and Black Kites; Hen, Montagu's, Pallid and Northern Harriers; Sparrowhawk and Goshawk; Common, Rough-legged and Honey Buzzards; Golden and White-tailed Eagles; Falcons: Peregrine, Merlin, Hobby and Red-footed Falcon; Ringed, Little Ringed and Kentish Plovers; Large plovers: Grey, European Golden, American Golden and Pacific Golden Plovers, and Dotterel; Little Stint, Temminck's Stints and Sanderling; The rare stints: Semipalmated, Western and Least Sandpipers, and Red-necked and Long-toed Stints; Baird's and White-rumped Sandpipers; Dunlin, Curlew Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Knot; Ruff, Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Pectoral Sandpiper; Common, Jack and Great Snipe; Godwits; Curlew and Whimbrel; Common and Spotted Sandpipers; Green and Wood Sandpipers; Redshank, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank and Marsh Sandpiper; Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs; Phalaropes; Arctic, Pomarine and Long-tailed Skuas; Kittiwake, Little and Sabine's Gulls; Mediterranean Gull; Ring-billed Gull; Herring, Lesser Black-backed and Great Black-backed Gulls; Yellow-legged and Caspian Gulls; Glaucous and Iceland Gulls; Gull-billed and Sandwich Terns; Marsh terns - Black, White-winged Black, American Black and Whiskered Terns; Common, Arctic and Roseate Terns; Auks; Pigeons and doves; Long-eared and Short-eared Owls; Common, Pallid and Alpine Swifts; Red-backed, Turkestan, Daurian, Brown, Woodchat and Masked Shrikes; Great Grey, Lesser Grey and Steppe Grey Shrikes Crows: Carrion Crow, Rook, Raven, Jackdaw and Chough; Marsh and Willow Tits; Skylark, Woodlark and Short-toed Lark; Red-rumped Swallow; Cetti's Warbler; Greenish and Arctic Warblers; Yellow-browed, Hume's and Pallas's Warblers; Goldcrest and Firecrest; Radde's and Dusky Warblers; Wood Warbler, Western and Eastern Bonelli's Warblers; Willow Warbler and the chiffchaffs; Aquatic Warbler; Unstreaked Acrocephalus warblers; Iduna warblers: Booted, Sykes's and Eastern Olivaceous Warblers; Hippolais warblers: Melodious and Icterine Warblers; Locustella warblers: Grasshopper, Savi's and River Warblers; Sylvia warblers: Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Subalpine, Garden and Barred Warblers; Rose-coloured Starling; Ring Ouzel and Blackbird; Song Thrush and Mistle Thrush; Common and Thrush Nightingales; Common and Black Redstarts;
European Stonechat, Eastern Stonechat and Whinchat; House and Tree Sparrows; Grey, Yellow, Eastern Yellow and Citrine Wagtails; Pied and White Wagtails; Tawny, Richard's and Blyth's Pipits; Small pipits: Meadow, Tree, Red-throated, Olive-backed and Pechora Pipits; Rock, Water and Buff-bellied Pipits; Green finches: Greenfinch, Siskin and Serin; Linnet, Twite and Common Rosefinch; Lesser, Mealy and Arctic Redpolls; Common, Parrot, Scottish and Two-barred Crossbills; Cirl Bunting and Yellowhammer; Reed, Little, Rustic and Lapland Buntings