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Shetland Bird List

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The table contains a complete list of the 473 bird species recorded in Shetland, including the year of the first record and, where relevant, Shetland name, breeding status and category.

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Key to breeding status:

 

C: common (50+ pairs)

u: uncommon but annual (fewer than 50 pairs)

sp: sporadic

e: extinct (regular or sporadic with no 21st century records)

poss: possible breeding spp.

hyb: only bred as part of a hybrid pair

Key to category:

 

C: Category C (not native/introduced)

D: Category D (uncertain provenance)

O: only seen offshore

X: globally extinct

F: only recorded on Fair Isle

P: provisional (believed to have occurred but no accepted records)

Species
Scientific Name
Shetland Name
Breeding Status
First Record
Cat.
Marsh Warbler
Acrocephalus palustris
sp #
1906
Thick-billed Warbler
Iduna aedon
1955
Booted Warbler
Iduna caligata
1936
Sykes's Warbler
Iduna rama
1959
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
Iduna pallida
1995
Olive-tree Warbler
Hippolais olivetorum
2006
Icterine Warbler
Hippolais icterina
1908
Melodious Warbler
Hippolais polyglotta
1955
Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
Helopsaltes certhiola
1949
Lanceolated Warbler
Locustella lanceolata
1908
Common Grasshopper Warbler
Locustella naevia
e
1907
River Warbler
Locustella fluviatilis
1961
Savi’s Warbler
Locustella lusciniodes
1908
Eurasian Blackcap
Sylvia atricapilla
sp
1861
Garden Warbler
Sylvia borin
1861
Barred Warbler
Sylvia nisoria
1905
Lesser Whitethroat
Sylvia curruca
sp
1861
Western Orphean Warbler
Sylvia hortensis
2016
Common Whitethroat
Sylvia communis
sp
1843
Dartford Warbler
Sylvia undata
2000
F
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