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

Water Rail

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]

Green Sandpiper

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 

Peregrine Falcon

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.