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Italy: Birds and Art in Tuscany

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Cumulative Birdlist

with Rick Wright as leader

  • Column A = Number of years out of one seen during this tour.
  • Column B = number of days seen during the 2010 tour
  • Column C = maximum daily count seen during the 2010 tour
  • Column D = H predominantly heard rather than seen

This list has taxonomic notes.

A B C D
1 Mute Swan 2 6 Cygnus olor
1 Common Shelduck 2 2 Tadorna tadorna
1 Common Pochard 1 1 Aythya ferina
1 Ferruginous Duck 1 1 Aythya neroca
1 Mallard 8 20 Anas platyrhynchos
1 Common Pheasant 7 1 H Phasianus colchicus
1 Scopoli's Shearwater 3 6 Calonectris diomedea
1 Yelkouan Shearwater 2 20 Puffinus yelkouan
1 Northern Gannet 1 1 Morus bassanus
1 Great Cormorant 3 4 Phalacrocorax carbo
1 European Shag 1 3 Phalacrocorax aristotelis
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 1 Nycticorax nycticorax
1 Squacco Heron 1 8 Ardeola ralloides
1 Cattle Egret 3 30 Bubulcus ibis
1 Little Egret 3 40 Egretta garzetta
1 Great Egret 2 3 Casmerodius albus
1 Gray Heron 5 15 Ardea cinerea
1 Purple Heron 1 1 Ardea purpurea
1 Greater Flamingo 2 420 Phoenicopterus roseus
1 European Honey Buzzard 1 1 Pernis apivorus
1 Red Kite 1 3 Milvus milvus
1 Eurasian Griffon Vulture 1 1 Gyps fulvus
1 Western Marsh Harrier 1 1 Circus aeruginosus
1 Common Buzzard 8 3 Buteo buteo
1 Common Kestrel 8 8 Falco tinnunculus
1 Red-footed Falcon 1 1 Falco vespertinus
1 Eurasian Hobby 1 1 Falco subbuteo
1 Peregrine Falcon 2 2 Falco peregrinus
1 Common Moorhen 1 3 Gallinula chloropus
1 Eurasian Coot 4 15 Fulica atra
1 Black-winged Stilt 3 6 Himantopus himantopus
1 Pied Avocet 1 6 Recurvirostra avosetta
1 Common Redshank 1 8 Tringa totanus
1 Slender-Billed Gull 1 1 Chroicocephalus genei
1 Common Black-headed Gull 2 20 Chroicocephalus ridibundus
1 Yellow-legged Gull 9 100s Larus cachinnans
1 Little Tern 1 4 Sternula albifrons
1 Gull-billed Tern 1 1 Geochelidon nilotica
1 Sandwich Tern 1 2 Sterna sandvicensis
1 Common Tern 1 12 Sterna hirundo
1 Rock Dove 11 Columba livia
1 Common Wood Pigeon 5 4 Columba palumbus
1 Eurasian Collared Dove 11 50 Streptopelia decaocta
1 European Turtle Dove 6 20 Streptopelia turtur
1 Common Cuckoo 9 1 H Cuculus canorus
1 Eurasian Scops Owl 6 H Otus scops
1 Common Swift 11 250 Apus apus
1 Pallid Swift 2 1 Apus pallidus
1 European Bee-eater 5 50 Merops apiaster
1 European Roller 2 2 Coracias garrulus
1 Eurasian Hoopoe 7 2 Upupa epops
1 Wryneck 1 2 Jynx torquilla
1 European Green Woodpecker 3 1 Picus viridis
1 Common Crested Lark 4 12 Galerida cristata
1 Woodlark 1 H Lullula arborea
1 Sand Martin 1 1 Riparia riparia
1 Eurasian Crag Martin 3 2 Ptyonoprogne rupestris
1 Barn Swallow 11 100 Hirundo rustica
1 Common House Martin 10 60 Delichon urbica
1 Ashy-headed (Yellow) Wagtail 1 6 Motacilla cinereocapilla
1 White Wagtail 2 4 Motacilla alba
1 Winter Wren 4 H Troglodytes troglodytes
1 European Robin 4 4 H Erithacus rubecula
1 Common Nightingale 7 1 H Luscinia megarhynchos
1 Black Redstart 1 8 Phoenicurus ochruros
1 Common Redstart 2 2 Phoenicurus phoenicurus
1 European Stonechat 3 1 Saxicola rubicola
1 Common Blackbird 10 5 Turdus merula
1 Cetti's Warbler 3 H Cettia cetti
1 Zitting Cisticola 4 6 Cisticola juncidis
1 Melodious Warbler 3 1 Hippolais polyglotta
1 Eurasian Reed Warbler 3 2 H Acrocephalus scirpaceus
1 Sardinian Warbler 6 4 Sylvia melanocephala
1 Eurasian Blackcap 11 3 H Sylvia atricapilla
1 Western Bonelli's Warbler 2 H Phylloscopus bonelli
1 Common Chiffchaff 2 1 H Phylloscopus collybita
1 Firecrest 3 H Regulus ignicapillus
1 Spotted Flycatcher 2 5 Muscicapa striata
1 Long-tailed Bushtit 1 10 Aegithalos caudatus
1 European Blue Tit 8 3 Cyanistes caeruleus
1 Great Tit 8 5 Parus major
1 Coal Tit 1 H Periparus ater
1 Eurasian Golden Oriole 5 1 H Oriolus oriolus
1 Red-backed Shrike 2 2 Lanius collurio
1 Woodchat Shrike 1 1 Lanius senator
1 Eurasian Jay 4 6 Garrulus glandarius
1 Eurasian Magpie 9 60 Pica pica
1 Western Jackdaw 9 50 Corvus monedula
1 Hooded Crow 11 20 Corvus corone
1 Northern Raven 2 2 Corvus corax
1 Common Starling 10 25 Sturnus vulgaris
1 Italian Sparrow 11 50 Passer italiae
1 Eurasian Tree Sparrow 4 4 Passer montanus
1 Common Chaffinch 7 5 H Fringilla coelebs
1 European Serin 10 40 Serinus serinus
1 European Greenfinch 8 2 H Carduelis chloris
1 European Goldfinch 9 15 Carduelis carduelis
1 Common Linnet 1 H Acanthis cannabina
1 Cirl Bunting 3 1 Emberiza cirlus
1 Corn Bunting 2 6 Emberiza calandra

Taxonomic Notes