Index of British birds

This section lists all birds that have been found in Britain, including the very rare, besides linking in the left name column to our pages on the species, we also link to information in Wikipedia, on the RSPB site and to BBC factfile pages. Where the source of information is not shown it is within Wikipedia. You can find information by the type of bird, or you can use the large alpha index to get from any name to the type page.

Non passerines: Ducks, Geese, and Swans • Grouse • Pheasants and Partridges • Divers • Grebes • Albatrosses • Petrels and Shearwaters • Storm-Petrels • Gannets • Cormorants • Frigatebird • Tropicbird • Herons and Bitterns • Storks • Ibises and Spoonbills • Hawks and Eagles • Osprey • Falcons • Rails • Cranes • Bustards • Oystercatchers • Avocets and stilts • Stone-Curlews • Pratincoles and Coursers • Plovers & Lapwings • Sandpipers, Snipe and Phalaropes • Skuas • Gulls • Terns • Auks • Sandgrouse • Pigeons and Doves • Parrots • Cuckoos • Barn Owls • Typical Owls • Nightjars • Swifts • Kingfishers • Bee-eaters • Rollers • Hoopoe • Woodpeckers •

Passerines: Larks • Swallows and Martins • Wagtails and Pipits • Waxwings • Dippers • Wrens • Mockingbirds • Accentors • Thrushes and chats • Old World Warblers • Kinglets • Old World Flycatchers • Tyrant Flycatchers • Babblers & Parotbills • Long-Tailed Tits • Tits • Penduline Tits •Nuthatches • Treecreepers • Wallcreepers • Orioles • Shrikes • Crows • Starlings • Sparrows • Vireos • Finches • New World Warblers • Tanagers • Buntings and New world sparrows • New World orioles and New World blackbirds •