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Where to find the Islands more interesting birds

KEY: (p) = Passage (s) = Summer (w) = Winter


Red-throated Diver: Ayres (pw), Calf (p)
Black-throated Diver: Ayres (pw), Calf (p)
Great Northern Diver: Ayres (pw); Calf (p); Derbyhaven and Peel Bay (w)
Little Grebe: Stillwaters and harbours (w); Breeds occasionally
Other grebes: Derbyhaven (w)
Manx Shearwater: Calf and coast north to Peel (ps); Ayres (p)
European Storm-petrel: Calf and coast north to Peel (ps)
Great Cormorant: Colonies at Maughold, Ladyport, Will's Strand, Pistol Castle and Baie Fine(s)
Bewick's Swan: Ballacain Dubs and meadows (w) - scarce - with Whoopers.
Whooper Swan: Ballacain Dubs and meadows (w)
Brent Goose: Derbyhaven, Castletown Bay, Strandhall (w)
Shoveler: Glascoe and other northern dubs (all year); Langness (w)
Pochard: Eairy & Kionslieu and Kerrowdhoo Reservoirs (w)
Tufted Duck: Eairy & Kionslieu and Kerrowdhoo and Port-e-Chee (w); Kionslieu (s)
Common Eider: Calf of Man and Niarbyl (s); west coast (p); Ayres
Goldeneye: West Castletown Bay, Port Jack, north Ramsey and stillwaters (w)
Hen Harrier: Moorland (all year); Roosts at Ballaugh Curraghs and Stoney Mountain (w)
Water Rail: Ballaugh Curraghs (w); Calf of Man (all year)
Golden Plover: Ayres, northern plain and between Derbyhaven and Strandhall (w)
Grey Plover: Derbyhaven, Langness, Carrick Bay and Ayres (pw)
Knot: Derbyhaven and Langness (pw); Ayres (p)
Sanderling: Ayres (p)
Little Stint: Langness and Ayres(p)
Purple Sandpiper: Peel Castle, Port Jack, Port St. Mary Point and Niarbyl (pw)
Ruff: Langness (p)
Eurasian Woodcock: Roding - Greeba and Ballaugh Curraghs; Barrule Plantation (s)
Black-tailed Godwit: Langness and Derbyhaven (p)
Bar-tailed Godwit: Langness, Derbyhaven and Strandhall (pw)
Whimbrel: Langness, Derbyhaven and Ayres (p)
Greenshank: Langness and Derbyhaven (p)
Skuas: Ayres, Peel and Calf of Man (p)
Mew Gull: Ayres gravel pits (s)
Herring Gull: Inland colonies at Sartfell, SlieauFreoghane and SlieauDhoo (s)
Great Black-Backed Gull: Calf of Man and Slieau Freoghane (s)
Black-Legged Kittiwake: Calf of Man, Sugarloaf,Maughold Head, Peel Hill (s) Ayres(p)
Sandwich Tern: Ayres (bred once); Ayres, Langness and most bays
Common, Arctic,& Little Tern: Ayres(s)
Common Guillemot: Calf of Man, Peel Hill, Sugarloaf, Maughold Head Ayres (w)
Black Guillemot: Peel Hill and coast south, north of Fleshwick, Bradda, Baie Fine, Perwick, Gob Lhiack, Clay Head and Maughold (s) Ayres, Peel, Derbyahven (w)
Atlantic Puffin: Calf of Man, Spanish Head, Anvil, Maughold, Peel Hill (s)
Long-eared Owl: Plantations and shelter belts (all year)
Short-eared Owl: regular Calf of Man, Glen Rushen, Stony Mountain, Druidale (s); Ayres and Langness (pw)
Kingfisher: Irregular lower Sulby River, Tromode millstream, harbours and rocky coasts (p)
Sand Martin: Colonies at Dog Mills, Glen Mooar BallaharraSandpit
House Martin: Cliff nesting at Port Soderick, Port Soldrick and Maughold
Black Redstart: Port St. Mary Harbour, Peel Castle (w)
Whinchat: Laxey, Corrany and upper Glen Audyn valleys (s);Calf of Man, Ayres (p)
Stonechat: Widespread on or near coast (all year)
Northern Wheatear: Most coasts (p); Ayres, Orrisdale Head, Bradda, Anvil, Calf of Man (s)
Grasshopper Warbler: Ballaugh and Greeba Curraghs (p & possibly s)
Wood Warbler: Ramsey Hairpin woods, Dhoon valley, Glen Helen
Red-Billed Chough: Coastal cliffs (s); Marine Drive, Castletown Bay, Carrick Bay, Cregneash area and southern hills (w)
Common Raven: Widespread on coast and hills (all year); certain plantations and glens ; Ayres coast & Refuse tip
Eurasian Siskin: Lower Neb valley, Glen Wyllin (pw); Plantations, Ballaugh Curraghs (s)
Commom Redpoll: Ballaugh Curraghs (all year); Glen Rushen and Sartfell Plantations (s)
Common Crossbill: Plantations particularly Stoney Mountain
Yellowhammer: Northern plain (all year - increasingly scarce); Raggatt (s)


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