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WINGS Birding Tours – Bird List

Italy: Birds and Art in Tuscany

Cumulative Birdlist

with Rick Wright as leader

  • Column A = number of tours out of two on which species has been recorded
  • Column B = number of days recorded during the 2011 tour
  • Column C = maximum daily count seen during the 2011 tour
  • Column D = H = predominantly heard rather than seen
A B C D
1 Mute Swan Cygnus olor
2 Common Shelduck 1 10 Tadorna tadorna
1 Common Pochard Aythya ferina
1 Ferruginous Duck Aythya neroca
1 Northern Shoveler 2 2 Anas clypeata
2 Mallard 4 80 Anas platyrhynchos
2 Common Pheasant 5 2 H Phasianus colchicus
2 Scopoli's Shearwater 1 4 Calonectris diomedea
2 Yelkouan Shearwater 1 1 Puffinus yelkouan
1 Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
1 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
1 European Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 2 Nycticorax nycticorax
2 Squacco Heron 1 6 Ardeola ralloides
2 Cattle Egret 4 25 Bubulcus ibis
2 Little Egret 4 30 Egretta garzetta
2 Great Egret 1 2 Casmerodius albus
2 Gray Heron 5 250 Ardea cinerea
1 Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
1 Eurasian Spoonbill 2 3 Platalea leucorodia
2 Greater Flamingo 2 140 Phoenicopterus roseus
1 Great Crested Grebe 1 2 Podiceps cristatus
1 European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
1 Black Kite 1 3 Milvus migrans
2 Red Kite 1 1 Milvus milvus
1 Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus
1 Short-toed Snake Eagle 1 2 Circaetus gallicus
2 Western Marsh Harrier 1 3 Circus aeruginosus
1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk 1 1 Accipiter nisus
2 Common Buzzard 7 5 Buteo buteo
1 Golden Eagle 2 3 Aquila chrysaetos
1 Osprey 1 2 Pandion haliaetus
2 Common Kestrel 7 4 Falco tinnunculus
1 Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus
1 Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
2 Peregrine Falcon 1 1 Falco peregrinus
1 Eleonora's Falcon 1 1 Falco
1 Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
2 Eurasian Coot 2 100s Fulica atra
1 Eurasian Oystercatcher 1 3 Haematopus ostralegus
2 Black-winged Stilt 2 25 Himantopus himantopus
2 Pied Avocet 1 1 Recurvirostra avosetta
1 Common Ringed Plover 1 7 Charadrius hiaticula
1 Black-bellied Plover 1 2 Pluvialis squatarola
1 Eurasian Curlew 1 6 Numenius arquata
1 Common Greenshank 1 1 Tringa nebularia
1 Common Redshank Tringa totanus
1 Curlew Sandpiper 1 60 Calidris ferruginea
1 Little Stint 1 40 Calidris
2 Slender-Billed Gull 1 1 Chroicocephalus genei
2 Common Black-headed Gull 2 50 Chroicocephalus ridibundus
2 Yellow-legged Gull 11 100s Larus cachinnans
2 Little Tern 2 2 Sternula albifrons
2 Gull-billed Tern 1 1 Geochelidon nilotica
1 Whiskered Tern 1 1 Chlidonias hybrida
2 Sandwich Tern 1 15 Sterna sandvicensis
2 Common Tern 2 10 Sterna hirundo
2 Rock Dove 11 10s Columba livia
2 Common Wood Pigeon 8 15 Columba palumbus
2 Eurasian Collared Dove 11 10s Streptopelia decaocta
2 European Turtle Dove 5 6 H Streptopelia turtur
1 Rose-ringed Parakeet 1 1 Psittacula krameri
2 Common Cuckoo 9 5 H Cuculus canorus
2 Eurasian Scops Owl 6 H Otus scops
2 Common Swift 11 100s Apus apus
2 Pallid Swift 1 1 Apus pallidus
2 European Bee-eater 8 20 Merops apiaster
2 European Roller 2 3 Coracias garrulus
2 Eurasian Hoopoe 7 10 H Upupa epops
1 Wryneck Jynx torquilla
2 European Green Woodpecker 2 H Picus viridis
2 Common Crested Lark 4 6 Galerida cristata
2 Woodlark 2 1 H Lullula arborea
1 Eurasian Skylark 3 4 H Alauda arvensis
1 Sand Martin Riparia riparia
2 Eurasian Crag Martin 3 8 Ptyonoprogne rupestris
2 Barn Swallow 10 10s Hirundo rustica
2 Common House Martin 11 100s Delichon urbica
1 Tree Pipit 1 4 H Anthus trivialis
2 Ashy-headed (Yellow) Wagtail 1 4 Motacilla cinereocapilla
1 Gray Wagtail 2 3 Motacilla cinerea
2 White Wagtail 6 4 Motacilla alba
2 Eurasian Wren 9 2 H Troglodytes troglodytes
2 European Robin 7 4 H Erithacus rubecula
2 Common Nightingale 7 1 H Luscinia megarhynchos
2 Black Redstart 2 1 Phoenicurus ochruros
2 Common Redstart 1 1 Phoenicurus phoenicurus
2 European Stonechat 2 2 Saxicola rubicola
1 Blue Rock Thrush 1 10 Monticola solitarius
2 Common Blackbird 8 15 H Turdus merula
2 Cetti's Warbler 4 H Cettia cetti
2 Zitting Cisticola 4 15 Cisticola juncidis
2 Melodious Warbler 4 5 Hippolais polyglotta
2 Eurasian Reed Warbler 2 H Acrocephalus scirpaceus
1 Great Reed Warbler 1 3 H Acrocephalus arundinaceus
1 Subalpine Warbler 2 1 H Sylvia cantillans
2 Sardinian Warbler 6 5 H Sylvia melanocephala
1 Garden Warbler 1 1 Sylvia borin
2 Eurasian Blackcap 11 5 H Sylvia atricapilla
1 Common Whitethroat 2 3 Sylvia communis
2 Western Bonelli's Warbler 2 1 H Phylloscopus bonelli
2 Common Chiffchaff 3 2 H Phylloscopus collybita
2 Firecrest 4 4 H Regulus ignicapillus
2 Spotted Flycatcher 4 50 Muscicapa striata
2 Long-tailed Bushtit 2 10 Aegithalos caudatus
2 European Blue Tit 5 5 Cyanistes caeruleus
2 Great Tit 8 4 H Parus major
1 Coal Tit Periparus ater
1 Eurasian Nuthatch 5 5 Sitta europaea
2 Eurasian Golden Oriole 8 1 H Oriolus oriolus
2 Red-backed Shrike 3 3 Lanius collurio
2 Woodchat Shrike 2 2 Lanius senator
2 Eurasian Jay 9 10 Garrulus glandarius
2 Eurasian Magpie 8 10s Pica pica
1 Alpine Chough 1 1 Pyrrhocorax graculus
2 Western Jackdaw 11 10s Corvus monedula
2 Hooded Crow 11 10s Corvus corone
2 Northern Raven 2 3 Corvus corax
2 Common Starling 10 50 Sturnus vulgaris
2 Italian Sparrow 11 50 Passer italiae
2 Eurasian Tree Sparrow 4 2 Passer montanus
2 Common Chaffinch 7 2 H Fringilla coelebs
2 European Serin 11 14 H Serinus serinus
2 European Greenfinch 5 4 H Carduelis chloris
2 European Goldfinch 11 80 Carduelis carduelis
1 Common Linnet Acanthis cannabina
2 Cirl Bunting 7 2 H Emberiza cirlus
2 Corn Bunting 7 30 H Emberiza calandra

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