With 2011 come to an end and we start looking forward to start a new year with lots of birding, here is my year list for this year! A year which will be remembered apart from amazing birding experiences in Spain and Norway, for some good birding and ringing in Malta, Spoonbills in February, large Garganey flocks and other ducks in March, the great Honey Buzzard passage in April, the 200 strong flock of White Storks in May, raptor migration in September especially the Lesser-spotted Eagles and Booted Eagle plus loads of passerines in October and November! 8 lifers in all in marked in blue and Malta ticks (4) marked in green.
1. Common Quail
2.
Common Shelduck
3.
Eurasian Wigeon
4.
Eurasian Teal
5.
Mallard
6.
Pintail
7.
Garganey
8.
Shoveler
9.
Ferruginous Duck
10. Pochard
11. Cory's Shearwater
12. Yelkouan Shearwater
13. Little Grebe
14. Great Crested Grebe
15. Black-necked Grebe
16. Black Stork
17. White Stork
18. Glossy Ibis
19. Eurasian Spoonbill
20. Little Bittern
21. Night Heron
22. Squacco Heron
23. Little Egret
24. Great White Egret
25. Cattle Egret
26. Grey Heron
27. Purple Heron
28. Northern Gannet
29. Great Cormorant
30. Lesser Kestrel
31. Common Kestrel
32. Red-footed Falcon
33. Merlin
34. Hobby
35. Eleonora's Falcon
36. Peregrine Falcon
37. Lesser Spotted Eagle
38. Short-toed Eagle
39. Booted Eagle
40. Common Buzzard
41. Honey-buzzard
42. Black Kite
43. Red Kite
44. Marsh Harrier
45. Pallid Harrier
46. Montagu's Harrier
47. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
48. Osprey
49. Water Rail
50. Little Crake
51. Spotted Crake
52. Moorhen
53. Common Coot
54. Common Crane
55. Oystercatcher
56. Black-winged Stilt
57. Avocet
58. Stone Curlew
59. Little Ringed Plover
60. Ringed Plover
61. Kentish
62. Dotterel
63. European Golden Plover
64. Little Stint
65. Temminck's Stint
66. Curlew Sandpiper
67. Dunlin
68. Ruff
69. Common Snipe
70. Great Snipe
71. Bar-tailed Godwit
72. Curlew
73. Common Redshank
74. Greenshank
75. Green Sandpiper
76. Wood Sandpiper
77. Marsh Sandpiper
78. Turnstone
79. Common Sandpiper
80. Mediterranean Gull
81. Black-headed Gull
82. Slender-billed Gull
83. Audouin's Gull
84. Lesser Black-backed Gull
85. Yellow-legged Gull
86. Caspian Tern
87. Sandwich Tern
88. Whiskered tern
89. Black Tern
90. Pomarine Skua
91. Collared Dove
92. Turtle Dove
93. Common Cuckoo
94. Short-eared Owl
95. European Nightjar
96. Alpine Swift
97. Common Swift
98. Pallid Swift
99. Common Kingfisher
100.European
Bee-eater
101. Roller
102. Hoopoe
103.Wryneck
104. Woodchat Shrike
105. Golden Oriole
106. Sand Martin
107. Barn Swallow
108. House Martin
109. Red-rumped
Swallow
110. Short-toed Lark
111. Sky Lark
112.Zitting Cisticola
113.Cetti's Warbler
114.Moustached
Warbler
115. Sedge Warbler
116. Reed Warbler
117. Great Reed
Warbler
118. Icterine Warbler
119. Blackcap
120. Garden Warbler
121. Common
Whitethroat
122. Spectacled
Warbler
123. Subalpine Warbler
124. Sardinian Warbler
125.Western Orphean Warbler
126. Wood Warbler
127. Common Chiffchaff
128. Willow Warbler
129. Yellow-browed
Warbler
130.Goldcrest
131.Firecrest
132. Common Starling
133. Blackbird
134.Song Thrush
135.Redwing
136. Robin
137. Common
Nightingale
138. Bluethroat
139.Black Redstart
140. Common Redstart
141.Moussier’s
Redstart
142.Whinchat
143.Common Stonechat
144. Isabelline Wheatear
145. Northern Wheatear
146. Black-eared
Wheatear
147. Blue Rock Thrush
148. Rock Thrush
149.Spotted
Flycatcher
150. Collared
Flycatcher
151. Pied Flycatcher
152. Red-breasted
Flycatcher
153. Spanish Sparrow
154. Tree Sparrow
155. Dunnock
156. Tawny Pipit
157. Tree Pipit
158. Meadow Pipit
159.Red-throated
Pipit
160.Water Pipit
161. Yellow Wagtail
162. Grey Wagtail
163.White Wagtail
164.Common Chaffinch
165. Greenfinch
166.Linnet
167.Reed Bunting
168.Corn Bunting
Happy new year with even more birding experiences to all!
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