Migrant and Vagrant Birds seen on Bird Island
Images (from left to right):
Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni), Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa), Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica), Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola), Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus), Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus), Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetherus), Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia), Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo), Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva), Red Backed Shrike (Lanius collurio), Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides), Red-footed Booby (Sula sula), Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus), Little Tern (Sterna Albifrons), Sanderling (Calidris alba), Lesser Sandplover (Charadrius mongolus), Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra), Saunders’ Tern (Sterna saundersi).
More migrants & vagrants:
Wilson’s Storm-petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), Audubon’s Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri), Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda), Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster), Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea), Indian Pond-heron (Ardeola grayii), White Stork (Ciconia ciconia), Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris), Garganey (Anas querquedula), Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni), Western Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus), Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis), Corncrake (Crex crex), Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix), Stone Curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus), Little Curlew (Numenius minutus), Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata), Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula), Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), Caspian Plover (Charadrius asiaticus), Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus), Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola), Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos), Grey-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes), Little Stint (Calidris minuta), Temminck’s Stint (Calidris temmincki), Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotus), Ruff (Philomachus pugnax), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus), Heuglin’s Gull (Larus heuglini), White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus), Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica), Lesser Crested Tern (Sterna bengalensis), Common Tern (Sterna Hirundo), Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii), Black-naped Tern (Sterna sumatrana).
European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur), Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius), Jacobin Cuckoo (Oxylophus jacobinus), Barn Owl (Tyto alba), Eurasian Scops-owl (Otus scops), Eurasian Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus), Common Swift (Apus apus), Pacific Swift (Apus pacificus), Little Swift (Apus affinus), European Roller (Coracias garrulus), Broad-billed Roller (Eurystomus glaucurus), Sand Martin (Riparia riparia), Mascarene Martin (Phedina borbonica), Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica), Common House Martin (Delichon urbica), Bimaculated Lark (Melanocorypha bimaculata), Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis), Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava), Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea), White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), Rufous Tailed Rock Thrush, European Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus), Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra), Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina), Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka), Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis), Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata), Rose-coloured Starling (Sturnus roseus), Wattled Starling (Creatophora cinerea), House Crow (Corvus splendens).