IOW Life list
No.SPECIESDate Seen / StatusBest Location(s)
01 Red Throated Diver2006 Regular WinterSouth Coasts
02Black Throated Diver2006 Regular WinterSt. Catherine's Point etc
03Great Northern Diver2006 Regular WinterNorth & East Coasts
04Great Crested Grebe2006 Regular WinterNorth & East Coasts
05Red Necked Grebe2006 Regular WinterSeaview
06Slavonian Grebe2006 Regular WinterSeaview
07Black Necked Grebe2006 Regular WinterSeaview to Ryde
08Little Grebe2006 CommonBembridge Ponds etc.
09Fulmer2006 CommonSt. Catherine's Point etc
10Manx Shearwater2006 OccasionalSt. Catherine's Point etc
11Balearic Shearwater2006 -3rd SeptemberSt. Catherine's Point etc
12Sooty Shearwater2005 -3rd NovemberVentnor Seawatch
13Storm Petrel2006 -27th MaySt. Catherine's Point etc
14Gannet2006 CommonSt. Catherine's Point etc
15Shag2006 CommonCulver, West High Down
16Cormorant2006 CommonSt. Helens Fort
17Bittern2005 RareBembridge, Yarmouth
18Little Egret2006 CommonNewtown, Bembridge
19 Grey Heron 2006 Common Bembridge
20 Night Heron 1998 Very Rare Bembridge Ponds
21 Spoonbill 2004 -1st September Bembridge, Newtown
22 Whooper Swan 2006 Very Rare Newtown, Apse Heath
23 Mute Swan 2006 Common Ryde Canoe Lake
24 White Fronted Goose 2006 Getting Scarcer Medina, Atherfield
25 Grey Lag Goose 2006 Rare & Feral Bembridge, Yarmouth
26 Bean Goose 2006 Occasional Brading, Atherfield
27 Pink Footed Goose 2004 Rare & Feral Foreland
28 Canada Goose 2006 Common Bembridge, Newtown
29 Brent Goose 2006 Regular Winter Ryde, Fishbourne
30 Shelduck 2006 Common Newtown
31 Mandarin 2006 Occasional Ventnor, Bembridge
32 Mallard 2006 Common Ryde Canoe Lake
33 Gadwall 2006 Occasional Yarmouth, Bembridge
34 Wigeon 2006 Regular Winter Yarmouth, Newtown
35 Teal 2006 Regular Winter Yarmouth, Newtown
36 Green Winged Teal 2004 Very Rare St. Helen's Bridge
37 Garganey 2006 Rare Bembridge, Yarmouth
38 Pintail 2006 Regular Winter Newtown
39 Shoveler 2006 Regular Winter Yarmouth, Bembridge
40 Tufted 2006 Common Bembridge, Calbourne
41 Pochard 2006 Regular Winter Hersey, Bembridge
42 Scaup 2006 Occasional Medina, Ryde
43 Eider 2006 Occasional Yarmouth. Newtown
44 Common Scoter 2006 Regular/Common St. Catherine's Point etc
45 Velvet Scoter 2006 Occasional St. Catherine's Point etc
46 Goldeneye 2006 Regular Winter Newtown, Yarmouth
47 Goosander 2006 Occasional North & East Coasts
48 Red Breasted Merganser 2006 Regular Winter North & East Coasts
49 Ruddy Duck 2006 Occasional Yarmouth, Bembridge
50 Osprey 2006 Passage Migrant Newtown, Bembridge
51 Red Kite 2006 Occasional Chessell
52 Marsh Harrier 2006 Occasional Bembridge Marsh
53 Hen Harrier 2006 Regular Winter Bembridge Marsh
54 Montegue's Harrier 2000 -28th August Ventnor Downs
55 Sparrowhawk 2006 Common Ventnor Downs
56 Buzzard 2006 Common Ventnor Downs
57 Honey Buzzard 2006 Occasional Ventnor Downs
58 Peregrine Falcon 2006 Common West High Down
59 Red Footed Falcon 2001 -12th July West High Down
60 Kestrel 2006 Common Bembridge Marsh
61 Hobby 2006 Regular Summer Bembridge Marsh
62 Merlin 2006 Regular Winter Atherfield etc.
63 Pheasant 2006 Common Farmland
64 Grey Partridge 2006 Getting Scarcer Atherfield etc.
65 Red Legged Partridge 2006 Common Arreton etc.
66 Quail 2004 -2nd Sepember Chessell
67 Water Rail 2006 Common Hersey NR, Bembridge
68 Moorhen 2006 Common Hersey NR, Bembridge
69 Coot 2006 Common Hersey NR, Bembridge
70 Oystercatcher 2006 Common Ryde Sands, Newtown
71 Avocet 2000 -6th May Bembridge
72 Stone Curlew 2003 -17th May Little Atherfield
73 Dotterel 2006 Very Rare Culver, West High Down
74 Ringed Plover 2006 Common Ryde Sands, Newtown
75 Little Ringed Plover 2006 Occasional Yarmouth
76 Grey Plover 2006 Regular Winter Newtown, Yarmouth
77 Golden Plover 2006 Regular Winter Newtown, Atherfield
78 Lapwing 2006 Common Bembridge
79 Dunlin 2006 Common Newtown
80 Knot 2006 Common Newtown
81 Sanderling 2006 Common Winter Ryde Sands
82 Little Stint 2006 Occasional Yarmouth, Newtown
83 Purple Sandpiper 2006 Regular Winter Foreland
84 Ruff 2006 Occasional Newtown
85 Snipe 2006 Regular Winter Yarmouth, Bembridge
86 Jack Snipe 2006 Occasional Werrar, Thorness
87 Woodcock 2006 Common Parkhurst etc.
88 Black Tailed Godwit 2006 Common Newtown, Yarmouth
89 Bar Tailed Godwit 2006 Occasional Ryde Sands, Newtown
90 Curlew 2006 Common Newtown, Ryde etc.
91 Whimbrel 2006 Regular Summer Newtown, Medina
92 Long Billed Dowitcher 1998 -21st November St. Helen's Bridge
93 Spotted Redshank 2006 Regular Winter Yarmouth, Newtown
94 Redshank 2006 Common Yarmouth, Newtown
95 Greenshank 2006 Common Yarmouth, Bembridge
96 Green Sandpiper 2006 Occasional Yarmouth, Hersey NR
97 Common Sandpiper 2006 Regular Summer Newtown, Hersey NR
98 Turnstone 2006 Common Newtown, Yarmouth
99 Great Skua 2006 Occasional St. Catherine's Point etc
100 Arctic Skua (Dark/Light) 2006 Occasional St. Catherine's Point etc
101 Pomarine Skua 2006 Regular Spring St. Catherine's Point etc
102 Black Headed Gull 2006 Common Ryde Sands
103 Little Gull 2005 Occasional St. Catherine's Point etc
104 Mediterranean Gull 2006 Common Seaview, Foreland
105 Yellow Legged Gull 2006 Occasional Atherfield
106 Herring Gull 2006 Common Ryde Sands
107 Lesser Black Backed 2006 Occasional Ryde Sands
108 Greater Black Backed 2006 Common Ryde Sands
109 Iceland Gull 2003 -17th December St. Catherine's Point
110 Common/Mew Gull 2006 Regular Winter Ryde Sands
111 Kittiwake 2006 Common St. Catherine's Point etc
112 Roseate Tern 2006 Occasional Ryde Sands
113 Arctic Tern 2006 Occasional St. Catherine's Point etc
114 Common Tern 2006 Common Ryde Sands
115 Little Tern 2006 Regular Summer Newtown, Fort Victoria
116 Sandwich Tern 2006 Common Ryde Sands
117 Black Tern 2006 Occasional St. Catherine's Point etc
118 Razorbill 2006 Regular Winter St. Catherine's Point etc
119 Guillimot 2006 Common St. Catherine's Point etc
120 Puffin 2002 -25th March St. Catherine's Point
121 Feral Pigeon 2006 Common Towns etc.
122 Stock Dove 2006 Common Towns etc.
123 Wood Pigeon 2006 Common Towns etc.
124 Collared Dove 2006 Common Towns etc.
125 Turtle Dove 2006 Regular Summer Brighstone Down
126 Cuckoo 2006 Regular Summer Yarmouth
127 Little Owl 2006 Quite Common Gore Cliff, Blackwater
128 Long Eared Owl 2006 Ellusive Parkhurst
129 Short Eared Owl 2006 Regular Winter Atherfield, Bembridge
130 Barn Owl 2006 Quite Common Alverstone NR
131 Nightjar 2006 Regular Summer Parkhurst, Firestone
132 Swift 2006 Regular Summer Ryde etc.
133 Pallid Swift 2004 -30th October Alum Bay
134 Kingfisher 2006 Regular Winter Bembridge, Yarmouth
135 Hoopoe 2006 Occasional Sandown Golf Course
136 Green Woodpecker 2006 Common Appley Park, Culver
137 Great Spotted WP 2006 Common Appley Park, Culver
138 Wryneck 2006 Occasional Ventnor Downs
139 Wood Lark 2006 Occasional Newchurch
140 Skylark 2006 Common  
141 Shore/Horned Lark 2003 Occasional Tennyson Down
142 Sand Martin 2006 Migrant/Summer  
143 House Martin 2006 Regular Summer  
144 Swallow 2006 Regular Summer  
145 Red Rumped Swallow 2006 Occasional Culver, Brading
146 Tree Pipit 2006 Passage Migrant  
147 Meadow Pipit 2006 Common  
148 Water Pipit 2006 Occasional Brading Sewage Wks.
149 Rock Pipit 2006 Common Culver, West High Down
150 Richard's Pipit 2004 -13th October Culver
151 Pied Wagtail 2006 Common Ryde Sandown etc.
152 Grey Wagtail 2006 Quite Common Brading, Shide
153 Yellow Wagtail 2006 Passage Migrant Culver, West High Down
154 Dunnock 2006 Common Farmland
155 Nightingale 2006 Regular Summer Alverstone, Newtown
156 Robin 2006 Common Culver etc.
157 Bluethroat 2003 -20th November Werrar
158 Stonechat 2006 Getting Scarcer Alum Bay, Freshwater
159 Whinchat 2006 Passage Migrant Culver, West High Down
160 Black Redstart 2006 Regular Winter Bembridge Marina
161 Redstart 2006 Passage Migrant Culver, West High Down
162 Wheatear 2006 Passage Migrant Downland
163 Blackbird 2006 Common Farmland
164 Ring Ouzel 2006 Occasional Culver, West High Down
165 Fieldfare 2006 Regular Winter Ventor, Yarmouth
166 Redwing 2006 Regular Winter Medina, Arreton
167 Song Thrush 2006 Common Appley Park
168 Mistle Thrush 2006 Common Appley Park
169 Grasshopper Warbler 2006 Occasional Ventnor Downs
170 Reed Warbler 2006 Common Yarmouth
171 Sedge Warbler 2006 Common Sandown Canoe Lake
172 Cetti's Warbler 2006 Common Bembridge, Yarmouth
173 Icterine Warbler 2002 -21st August Whale Chine
174 Garden Warbler 2006 Regular Summer Shide to Blackwater
175 Whitethroat 2006 Regular Summer Culver
176 Lesser Whitethroat 2006 Regular Summer Culver
177 Blackcap 2006 Common Shide etc.
178 Dartford Warbler 2006 Getting Scarcer Ventnor Downs, WHD
179 Wood Warbler 2004 -3rd May Appley Park
180 Chiffchaff 2006 Common Brading Sewage Works
181 Willow Warbler 2006 Passage Migrant Ventnor Downs
182 Yellow Browed Warbler 2003 -19th November Sandown
183 Pallas's Warbler 2004 -31st October Culver Down
184 Goldcrest 2006 Common  
185 Firecrest 2006 Regular Winter Ventnor
186 Spotted Flycatcher 2006 Passage Migrant  
187 Pied Flycatcher 2006 Occasional Nansen Hill
188 Bearded Tit 2006 Regular Winter Yarmouth
189 Long Tailed Tit 2006 Common  
190 Marsh Tit 2006 Getting Scarcer Parkhurst?
191 Coal Tit 2006 Common Firestone Copse
192 Great Tit 2006 Common  
193 Blue Tit 2006 Common  
194 Nuthatch 2006-3rd June Binstead
195 Treecreeper 2006 Common Appley Park, Shide etc
196 Wren 2006 Common  
197 Redbacked Shrike 2006 Occasional Atherfield
198 Woodchat Shrike 2005 Occasional Bembridge, Culver
199 Jay 2006 Common  
200 Magpie 2006 Common  
201 Rook 2006 Common  
202 Carrion Crow 2006 Common  
203 Jackdaw 2006 Common  
204 Raven 2006 Common  
205 Starling 2006 Common  
206 Rose Coloured Starling 2004 -14th September Sandown Esplanade
207 House Sparrow 2006 Common Foreland
208 Brambling 2006 Regular Winter Cowes, Rookley
209 Chaffinch 2006 Common  
211 Redpoll 2006 Regular Winter Blackwater, Sandown
212 Linnet 2006 Common Culver
213 Siskin 2006 Regular Winter Blackwater, Freshwater
214 Goldfinch 2006 Common Culver
215 Greenfinch 2006 Common Appley Park
216 Bullfinch 2006 Getting Scarcer Dodnor, Golden Fort
217 Hawfinch 2005 Rare Winter Appley Park
218 Crossbill 2006 Occasional Firestone, Mottistone
219 Corn Bunting 2006 Very Rare now Atherfield?
220 Yellow Hammer 2006 Common Ventnor Downs, WHD
221 Reed Bunting 2006 Getting Scarcer Yarmouth, Newtown
222 Lapland Bunting 2004 Occasional Whale Chine
       
223 Long Tailed Skua (?) 2005 25th October Foreland