Michael Dahlem's pages on birds of Europe

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Western Yellow Wagtail	Eurasian Jay	Bohemian Waxwing	European Robin	Eurasian Blue Tit	Eurasian Coot


White Stork	European Crested Tit	Great Tit	Eurasian Bullfinch	White Wagtail	Mallard


European Goldfinch	White-throated Dipper	Common Blackbird	Barn Swallow	Mute Swan	Common Starling


Common Crane	Eurasian Nuthatch	Fieldfare	Eurasian Skylark	Eurasian Chaffinch	Common Cuckoo


Eurasian Penduline Tit	Common Whitethroat	Common Linnet	Mistle Thrush	Common Pheasant	Yellowhammer	Red-breasted Merganser


Whinchat	Marsh Warbler	Sedge Warbler	Lesser Whitethroat	Eurasian Hoopoe	Common Reed Bunting	Red-backed Shrike


Black-necked Grebe	Common Redstart	Common Swift	Black Tern	Black Redstart	European Greenfinch


Common Wood Pigeon	Hooded Crow	Greylag Goose	Common Raven	Eurasian Siskin	Common Shelduck


Barnacle Goose	Great Cormorant	Western Jackdaw	Rook	Yellow-legged Gull


Pied Avocet	Greater Flamingo	Willow Warbler	Black-headed Gull	Grey Partridge	Western House Martin


Black-crowned Night Heron	Great [White] Egret	Little Egret	Grey Heron	Eurasian Magpie	European Serin


Canada Goose	(Eurasian) Black-winged Stilt	Barred Warbler	Common Buzzard	Common Kestrel	Great White Pelican


Spotted Flycatcher	Great Spotted Woodpecker	Hawfinch	European Pied Flycatcher	Rough-legged Buzzard


Merlin	Spanish Sparrow	Ferruginous Duck	Collared Flycatcher	Long-eared Owl	Western Marsh Harrier


Slender-billed Gull	Eurasian Sparrowhawk	Black-headed Bunting	Ortolan Bunting	Great Grey Shrike	European Bee-eater


Little Ringed Plover	Cirl Bunting	European Shag	House Sparrow	Woodchat Shrike	Rock Dove


Common Kingfisher	European Turtle Dove	Common Chiffchaff	Corn Bunting	Eurasian Collared Dove


Common Nightingale	European Nightjar	European Herring Gull	Eurasian Curlew	Bearded Reedling


Common Goldeneye	Common Snipe	Greater White- fronted Goose	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Northern Lapwing	Common Pochard


Northern Shoveler	Tree Pipit	Garganey	Ruff	Eurasian Wigeon


Black-tailed Godwit	Carrion Crow	Black Kite	Tufted Duck	Meadow Pipit


Wood Warbler	Common Sandpiper	Eurasian Wren	Great Crested Grebe	Goosander	White-winged Black Tern


Sand Martin	Common Gull	Ruddy Turnstone	Common Crossbill	Squacco Heron	Alpine Chough


European Red-rumped Swallow	Mediterranean Gull	Crested Lark	Whiskered Tern	Marsh Tit


Middle Spotted Woodpecker	Coal Tit	Sardinian Warbler	Black Woodpecker	Rock Bunting	Western Cattle Egret


European Green Woodpecker	Long-tailed Tit	Little Bittern	Common Moorhen	Spur-winged Lapwing


Common Greenshank	Isabelline Wheatear	Common Ringed Plover	Eurasian Stone-curlew	Glossy Ibis


Gyrfalcon	Barbary Partridge	Sanderling	Gull-billed Tern	Dunnock


Common Redshank	Song Thrush	Common Rosefinch	Eurasian Blackcap	Eurasian Golden Oriole	Black Stork


European Roller	Razorbill	Common Redpoll	Red-fronted Serin	Little Owl	Atlantic Puffin


Common Eider	Black Guillemot	Common Guillemot	Eurasian Oyster- catcher	Dunlin	Arctic Tern


Redwing	Ring Ouzel	Temminck's Stint	Savi's Warbler	Common Tern	Great Black- backed Gull


Egyptian Vulture	Water Pipit	Northern Wheatear	Common Rock Thrush	Blue Rock Thrush	Eastern Black-eared Wheatear


Brambling	Eurasian Crag Martin	Arctic Redpoll	Lammergeier	Long-legged Buzzard	Gadwall


Woodlark	Great Reed Warbler	White-tailed Eagle	Ruddy Shelduck	Western Rock Nuthatch	Eurasian Whimbrel


Great Skua	Whooper Swan	Greater Short-toed Lark	Bonaparte's Gull	Caspian Gull	Collared Pratincole


Pallid Swift	European Storm-Petrel	Grey Wagtail	Northern Gannet	Eurasian Black Vulture	Iceland Gull


American Herring Gull	Short-toed Snake Eagle	Kentish Plover	Eurasian Eagle Owl	Northern Pintail


Iberian Chiffchaff	Cory's Shearwater	Griffon Vulture	Little Gull	Red-legged Partridge	Rueppell's Vulture


Montagu's Harrier	Curlew Sandpiper	Purple Heron	Velvet Scoter	Common Quail	Booted Eagle


Pallid Harrier	Spanish Imperial Eagle	Osprey	Golden Eagle	European Honey Buzzard	Bonelli's Eagle	Red Kite


Black-winged Kite	Eurasian Spoonbill	Hen Harrier	Eurasian Hobby	Western Swamphen	Stock Dove


Red-knobbed Coot	European Stonechat	Iberian Magpie	Atlantic Canary	Red-crested Pochard	Little Tern


Lesser Spotted Woodpecker	Red-billed Chough	American Wigeon	Eurasian Teal	Common Scoter


Western Bonelli's Warbler	Ring-billed Gull	Common Firecrest	Short-toed Treecreeper	Audouin's Gull	Bluethroat


Little Grebe	Iberian Grey Shrike	Eurasian Wryneck	Western Subalpine Warbler	Spotless Starling	Melodious Warbler


Thekla's Lark	Zitting Cisticola	Tawny Pipit	Rock Sparrow	Lesser Black- backed Gull	Red Knot


Great Shearwater	Eurasian Reed Warbler	Ring-necked Duck	European Golden Plover	Cetti's Warbler	Semicollared Flycatcher


Green Sandpiper	Wood Sandpiper	Bar-tailed Godwit	Spotted Redshank	Purple Sandpiper


Grey Plover	Little Stint	Sooty Shearwater	Sandwich Tern	Smew


Caspian Tern	Brent Goose	Pink-footed Goose	Icterine Warbler	Forster's Tern


Black Wheatear	Northern Fulmar	Black-legged Kittiwake	Red-breasted Goose	Tawny Owl	Eurasian Treecreeper


Wallcreeper	Red Phalarope	Snow Goose	Lesser Kestrel	Alpine Swift


Garden Warbler	Common Grass- hopper Warbler	House Bunting	Dartford Warbler	Berthelot's Pipit


Willow Tit	Barn Owl	Pygmy Cormorant	Calandra Lark	Peregrine Falcon	Brown Booby


Lesser Yellowlegs	European Rock Pipit	Common Loon	Eurasian Nutcracker	Goldcrest


Madeira Firecrest	Scopoli's Shearwater	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Sabine's Gull	Water Rail


Arctic Skua	Alpine Accentor	Red-throated Pipit	Red-necked Nightjar	Little Bustard


Pomarine Skua	Lanner Falcon	Great Bustard	Short-eared Owl	Marsh Sandpiper


Red-throated Loon	Greater Spotted Eagle	Sombre Tit	Sociable Lapwing	Rosy Starling


Lesser Grey Shrike	Red-footed Falcon	Great Spotted Cuckoo	Spotted Crake	Eurasian Bittern	Little Crake


Eurasian Goshawk	Eurasian Woodcock	Syrian Woodpecker	Red-necked Phalarope	Moustached Warbler	Red-headed Woodpecker


Manx Shearwater	Arctic Warbler	Red-breasted Flycatcher	Twite	Yellow-browed Warbler

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