Systematic Bird List
Stoke Newington Reservoirs and Woodberry Wetlands Systematic Bird list
1950-April 2016
152 species
Taxonomy by the British Trust for Ornithology and the British Ornithologists Union.
Key: b = Breed. Date = (latest) Record. [] = Other, high count, etc. Italics = Feral/esc.
Canada Goose (b)
Greylag Goose
Mute Swan (b)
Bewick’s Swan: 3 on 12.2.1956
Egyptian Goose
Shelduck
Mandarin Duck
Garganey: juv. on 5.9.2005
Shoveler
Gadwall (b)
Wigeon [15 on 2.10.2007]
Mallard (b)
Teal
Red-crested Pochard
Pochard (b)
Tufted Duck (b)
Scaup: juv. on 19.1.2010
Velvet Scoter: 23.12.1992
Common Scoter: 2 fem. on 21.10.2009
Goldeneye: fem. on 9.12.2011
Smew: 4 on 17.1.1982
Goosander: 3 on 13.1.1963
Red-breasted Merganser: 3 on 18.2.1979
Ruddy Duck
Red-legged Partridge: 13.4.2009
Pheasant
Great Northern Diver: from 4 - 13 Feb., 2009
Cormorant
Shag: from 10 - 11.12.1983
Bittern: 19.1.2016
Little Egret [6 on 28.6.2015]
Grey Heron
Little Grebe (b)
Red-necked Grebe: 1.12.1984
Great Crested Grebe (b. First breeding record here 1912)
Slavonian Grebe: 3.4.2005
Black-necked Grebe: 29.8.2006
Red Kite
Sparrowhawk
Common Buzzard
Osprey: over on 4.4.2008
Moorhen (b)
Coot (b)
Avocet: over on 2.4.2016
Lapwing
Ringed Plover: 16.3.2016
Little Ringed Plover [5 on 27.6.2014]
Whimbrel: 2 over on 21.9.2007
Black-tailed Godwit: 3 on 5.7.2014
Ruff: 25.8.1992
Curlew Sandpiper: 2 on 1.8.1992
Temmink’s Stint: 6.8.2004
Woodcock: 11.12.2007
Jack Snipe: Feb. 2002
Snipe
Common Sandpiper [11 on 26.7.2014]
Greenshank: 15.5.2009
Redshank
Wood Sandpiper: Aug. 1994
Black Tern: 3.5.2011 [6 in May 1993]
Sandwich Tern: 4 over on 3.9.2006
Common Tern
Arctic Tern: 26.4.2013
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull: 31.8.2008
Mediterranean Gull: 16.1.2015
Common Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull (b)
Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Iceland Gull: juv. on 15.12.2008
Glaucous Gull: 20.2.1986
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Dove (b)
Stock Dove
Woodpigeon (b)
Collared Dove
Turtle Dove: 11.5.1995
Ring-necked Parakeet (b)
Cuckoo: April 1988
Tawny Owl [bred until early 1980s]
Short-eared Owl: over on 6.4.2009
Swift [breed in Stoke Newington]
Kingfisher [winter visitor]
Green Woodpecker (b)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (b)
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker: 23.10.2004
Kestrel (b)
Hobby
Golden Oriole: fem. on 12.5.2006
Magpie (b)
Jay (b)
Jackdaw
Rook: 3 on 15.2.2003
Carrion Crow (b)
Goldcrest (b)
Firecrest: 4.3.2016 to 1.4.2016
Blue Tit (b)
Great Tit (b)
Coal Tit
Skylark: 17.10.1999 [rarely grounded here]
Sand Martin
Swallow
House Martin
Cetti's Warbler (b first 2015)
Long-tailed Tit (b)
Yellow-browed Warbler: 10.10.2015
Chiffchaff (b)
Willow Warbler (b)
Blackcap (b)
Garden Warbler (b)
Lesser Whitethroat
Whitethroat
Sedge Warbler (b)
Reed Warbler (b)
Waxwing: 8 on 16.3.1996
Nuthatch: 7.5.2015
Wren (b)
Starling (b)
Blackbird (b)
Fieldfare
Song Thrush (b)
Redwing
Mistle Thrush (b)
Spotted Flycatcher
Robin (b)
Pied Flycatcher: 10.4.2016
Black Redstart: fem. on 29.4.2013
Common Redstart: 19.4.2013
Whinchat: fem. on 13.5.2014
Stonechat: 7.3.2015
Wheatear: 2.4.2016
Dunnock (b)
House Sparrow (b)
Yellow Wagtail
Grey Wagtail (b)
Pied Wagtail (b)
Tree Pipit: 11.4.2014
Meadow Pipit
Rock Pipit: 13.10.2006
Chaffinch (b)
Brambling
Greenfinch (b)
Goldfinch (b)
Siskin
Linnet
Lesser Redpoll
Bullfinch
Reed Bunting (b)
Escapes:
Black Swan: 16.2.2005
Ruddy Shelduck: 14.1.1996
N.B. Reliable local birders from the 1970s say that a Pintail, a Long-tailed Duck and a Dunlin were seen. However they’re not included in the list above because we haven’t been able to find more information.
