Shetland life list

                                                          Shetland life list.

Key-

Photo- Photo in gallery
Date- Record dates for rare or scarce records
Please note- all statuses have exceptions, with some falling into multiple categories.
Status- br= breeder, ob= occasional breeder or suspected
am= Annual migrant, r/s= Rare or scarce, not annual but regular.
r=Rare

Denotes self found for rare or scarce species

Species                                                              Photo       Status

1.       Mute swan		br
2.       Whooper swan		br
3.       European white fronted goose		am
4.       Greenland white fronted goose		am
5.       Pink-footed goose		am
6.       Greylag goose		br
7.       Barnacle goose	YES	ob
8.       Brent goose		r/s
9.       Shelduck		br
10.   Mallard		br
11.   Gadwall		r/s
12.   Pintail		am
13.   Shoveler		ob
14.   Eurasian wigeon		ob
15.   American wigeon		r
16.   Green-winged teal		r
17.   Teal		br
18.   Tufted duck		br
19.   Pochard		am
20.   Scaup		am
21.   Ring-necked duck		r
22.   Eider		br
23.   Common scoter		ob
24.   Velvet scoter		am
25.   Long-tailed duck	YES	am
26.   Goldeneye		am
27.   Goosander		am
28.   Red-breasted merganser		ob
29.   Red-throated diver		br
30.   Great northern diver		am
31.   Slavonian grebe		ob
32.   Little grebe		br
33.   Fulmar		br
34.   Sooty shearwater		am
35.   Storm petrel		br
36.   Gannet		br
37.   Cormorant		br
38.   Shag		br
39.   Great white egret		r
40.   Grey heron		am
41.   Osprey		am
42.   Red kite	YES	r
43.   Hen harrier		am
44.   Sparrowhawk		ob
45.   Kestrel		am
46.   Peregrine falcon		br
47.   Merlin		br
48.   Water rail		am
49.   Corncrake	YES	r/s
50.   Moorhen		br
51.   Coot		br
52.   Crane		am
53.   Oystercatcher		br
54.   Ringed plover		br
55.   Grey plover		am
56.   Dotterel	YES	am
57.   Golden plover		br
58.   American golden plover	YES	r/s
59.   Lapwing		br
60.   Ruff		ob
61.   Buff-breasted sandpiper		r/s
62.   Knot		am
63.   Sanderling		am
64.   Purple sandpiper		am
65.   Turnstone		am
66.   Dunlin		br
67.   Little stint		am
68.   Semipalmated sandpiper	YES	r
69.   Wood sandpiper	YES	am
70.   Green sandpiper		am
71.   Common sandpiper		am
72.   Redshank		br
73.   Spotted redshank		r/s
74.   Greenshank		am
75.   Black-tailed godwit		am
76.   Bar-tailed godwit		am
77.   Curlew		br
78.   Whimbrel		br
79.   Woodcock		am
80.   Snipe		br
81.   Jack snipe		am
82.   Red-necked phalarope	YES	br
83.   Great skua	YES	br
84.   Pomarine skua		r/s
85.   Arctic skua	YES	br
86.   Black-headed gull		br
87.   Kittiwake		br
88.   Glaucous gull	YES	am
89.   Iceland gull	YES	am
90.   Common gull		br
91.   Ring-billed gull		r/s
92.   Herring gull		br
93.   Lesser black- backed gull		br
94.   Great black- backed gull		br
95.   Sandwich tern		r/s
96.   Common tern		ob
97.   Arctic tern	YES	br
98.   Little auk		am
99.   Puffin	YES	br
100.                       Black guillemot		br
101.                       Guillemot		br
102.                       Razorbill		br
103.                       Rock dove		br
104.                       Stock dove		r/s
105.                       Woodpigeon		am
106.                       Collared dove		br
107.                       Turtle dove	YES	am
108.                       Cuckoo		am
109.                       Tengalm's owl	YES	r
110.                       Long-eared owl	YES	ob
111.                       Short-eared owl	YES	ob
112.                       Swift		am
113.                       Hoopoe		r
114.                       Great spotted woodpecker	YES	r/s
115.                       Wryneck	YES	am
116.                       Skylark		br
117.                       Short-toed lark	YES	am
118.                       Shore lark	YES	r/s
119.                       Sand martin		am
120.                       Red-rumped swallow	YES	r
121.                       Swallow	YES	br
122.                       House martin		br
123.                       Tawny pipit	YES	r
124.                       Richard's pipit		am
125.                       Rock pipit		br
126.                       Meadow pipit		br
127.                       Tree pipit		am
128.                       Olive-backed pipit	YES	am
129.                       Pechora pipit	YES	r
130.                       Red-throated pipit	YES	r/s
131.                       White/Pied wagtail		am
132.                       Yellow wagtail		am
133.                       Grey wagtail		am
134.                       Citrine wagtail	YES	r
135.                       Wren	YES	br
136.                       Waxwing	YES	am
137.                       Dunnock		am
138.                       Robin		br
139.                       Nightingale	YES	r/s
140.                       Thrush nightingale	YES	r
141.                       Bluethroat	YES	am
142.                       Red-flanked bluetail	YES	r/s
143.                       Siberian rubythroat	YES	r
144.                       Black redstart		am
145.                       Redstart	YES	am
146.                       Whinchat	YES	am
147.                       Stonechat		am
148.                       Siberian stonechat		r
149.                       Song thrush		am
150.                       Redwing	YES	ob
151.                       Mistle thrush		am
152.                       Fieldfare		ob
153.                       Ring ouzel	YES	am
154.                       Blackbird		br
155.                       Black-throated thrush	YES	r
156.                       Wheatear	YES	br
157.                       Desert wheatear	YES	r
158.                       Barred warbler	YES	am
159.                       Garden warbler	YES	am
160.                       Blackcap	YES	am
161.                       Whitethroat		am
162.                       Lesser whitethroat	YES	am
163.                       Eastern subalpine warbler	YES	r/s
164.                       Moltoni's warbler	YES	r
165.                       Sedge warbler		ob
166.                       Marsh warbler	YES	ob
167.                       Reed warbler		am
168.                       Paddyfield warbler	YES	r
169.                       Blyth's reed warbler	YES	r/s
170.                       Grasshopper warbler		am
171.                       Lanceolated warbler	YES	r/s
172.                       Icterine warbler	YES	am
173.                       Willow warbler		am
174.                       Wood warbler		am
175.                       Chiffchaff		am
176.                       Dusky warbler	YES	r/s
177.                       Arctic warbler	YES	r
178.                       Radde's warbler	YES	r/s
179.                       Greenish warbler		r/s
180.                       Yellow-browed warbler	YES	am
181.                       Pallas's warbler	YES	r/s
182.                       Goldcrest	YES	am
183.                       Firecrest	YES	r
184.                       Spotted flycatcher		am
185.                       Red-breasted flycatcher	YES	am
186.                       Pied flycatcher	YES	am
187.                       Blue tit	YES	r/s
188.                       Great grey shrike		am
189.                       Steppe grey shrike	YES	r
190.                       Red-backed shrike	YES	am
191.                       Turkestan shrike	YES	r
192.                       Woodchat shrike		r
193.                       Jackdaw		am
194.                       Rook		am
195.                       Hooded crow		br
196.                       Carrion crow		am
197.                       Raven		br
198.                       Starling		br
199.                       House sparrow		br
200.                       Tree sparrow		am
201.                       Chaffinch		ob
202.                       Brambling	YES	am
203.                       Linnet		br
204.                       Twite	YES	br
205.                       Redpoll	YES	am
206.                       Hornemann's Arctic redpoll	YES	r
207.                       Goldfinch		am
208.                       Siskin	YES	am
209.                       Bullfinch	YES	r/s
210.                       Hawfinch	YES	am
211.                       Common rosefinch	YES	am
212.                       Common crossbill		am
213.                       Two-barred crossbill		r
214.                       Grey-cheeked thrush	YES	r
215.                       Reed bunting		am
216.                       Little bunting	YES	r/s
217.                       Snow bunting	YES	am
218.                       Lapland bunting	YES	am
219.                       Rustic bunting	YES	r
220.                       Ortolan bunting	YES	r
221.                       Yellowhammer		am
222.                       Black-headed bunting	YES	r

        223.             Serin                                         YES       r
        224.             Savi's warbler                                          r
        225.             Rose coloured starling              YES       r
        226.             Booted warbler                        YES        r
        227.             Snowy owl                               YES       r/s
        228.             Leach's petrel                          YES        br
        229.             Long tailed skua                       YES       r/s
        230.             Lesser grey shrike                    YES       r
        231.             Quail                                                       am