Birds seen near Sennen Cove, Cornwall

Photos by resident ornithologist and artist Martin Elliott
(all photos Copyright Martin Elliott – 2013)

The Female Blackcap

Blackcap

Female Blackcap (Scientific name: Sylvia atricapilla)

The Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

(Scientific name: Phylloscopus collybita)

The Red-Billed Chough

Red-Billed Chough

(Scientific name: Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax)

The Northern Gannet

Northern Gannet

(Scientific name: Morus Bassanus)

The Hoopoe

Hoopoe

(Scientific name: Upupa epops)

The Black-legged Kittiwake - 1st Winter

Black-legged Kittiwake – 1st Winter

(Scientific name: Rissa tridactyla)

The Lesser Black-Backed Gull

Lesser Black-Backed Gull

(Scientific name: Larus fuscus)

The Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Whitethroat (Scientific name: Sylvia curruca)

(Scientific name: Sylvia curruca)

The Male Linnet (Scientific name: Carduelis Cannabina)

Male Linnet

(Scientific name: Carduelis Cannabina)

The Nuthatch

Nuthatch

(Scientific name: Sitta Europaea)

The Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

(Scientific name: Falco peregrinus)

The Swift (Scientific name: Apus Apus)

Swift

(Scientific name: Apus Apus)

The Turnstone

Turnstone

(Scientific name: Arenaria interpres)

The Male Wheatear

Male Wheatear

(Scientific name: Oenanthe oenanthe)

The Whimbrel (Scientific name: Numenius phaeopus)

Whimbrel

(Scientific name: Numenius phaeopus)

The Woodchat Shrike

Woodchat Shrike

(Scientific name: Lanius Senator)

Full list

A list compiled by resident ornithologist and artist Martin Elliott including all species reported to have been seen in Sennen Cove during a ten-year period.

r = resident, c = common, * = rare, ** = very rare

  • american herring gull (**)
  • artic skua (r)
  • artic tern
  • balearic shearwater (r*)
  • bar tailed godwit
  • barn owl
  • black bird (c)
  • black guillemot (*)
  • black headed gull (c)
  • black redstart (r*)
  • black tailed godwit
  • black tern
  • black throated diver
  • blackcap
  • blue tit (c)
  • bonaparte’s gull (*)
  • brambling
  • brent goose
  • buzzard (c)
  • carrion crow (c)
  • chaffinch (c)
  • chiffchaff (r)
  • chough (*)
  • collared dove (r)
  • common gull (r )
  • common sandpiper
  • common scoter
  • common tern
  • cormorant (c)
  • cory’s shearwater (*)
  • crossbill (c)
  • cuckoo
  • curlew (c)
  • dunlin
  • dunnock (c)
  • eider
  • fieldfare
  • firecrest (*)
  • fulmar (c)
  • gadwall
  • gannet (*)
  • glaucous gull (*)
  • goldcrest (r)
  • golden plover
  • goldeneye
  • goldfinch (r)
  • great black- backed gull (c)
  • great crested grebe
  • great northern diver (r)
  • great shearwater (*)
  • great skua (r)
  • great tit (c)
  • green sandpiper
  • greenfinch (r)
  • greenshank
  • grey heron (r)
  • grey phalarope (*)
  • grey plover (r)
  • grey wagtail (r)
  • guillemot (r)
  • gull billed tern (**)
  • gyr falcon (**)
  • hen harrier
  • herring gull (c)
  • honey buzzard (*)
  • hoopoe(*)
  • house martin (r)
  • house sparrow (c)
  • iceland gull (*)
  • jackdaw (c)
  • jay
  • kestrel (r)
  • king fisher
  • kittiwake (c*)
  • knot
  • lapwing
  • leach’s petrel (*)
  • lesser black-backed gull (r)
  • lesser whitethroat (*)
  • linnet (r)
  • little auk (*)
  • little egret
  • little gull
  • little tern
  • long tailed duck (*)
  • long tailed skua (*)
  • magpie (c)
  • mallard
  • manx shearwater (c)
  • meadow pipit (c)
  • mediterranean gull (r)
  • melodious warbler (*)
  • merlin
  • mute swan
  • nuthatch (r*)
  • oystercatcher
  • peregrine falcon (r*)
  • pied flycatcher
  • pied wagtail (c)
  • pochard
  • pomarine skua (*)
  • puffin (r*)
  • purple sandpiper (r*)
  • raven (c*)
  • razorbill (r)
  • red breasted flycatcher
  • red breasted merganser
  • red kite (*)
  • red necked grebe (*)
  • red throated diver
  • redpoll
  • red-rumped swallow (**)
  • redshank
  • redwing
  • reed bunting
  • reed warbler
  • ring billed gull (*)
  • ring ouzel (*)
  • ringed plover
  • robin (c)
  • rock pipit (c)
  • rook
  • roseate tern (*)
  • ross’s gull (**)
  • ruff
  • sabine’s gull (*)
  • sand martin
  • sanderling
  • sandwich tern (r)
  • scaup
  • shag (c)
  • shelduck
  • short eared owl
  • siskin
  • skylark
  • slavonian grebe
  • snipe
  • snow bunting (*)
  • song thrush
  • sooty shearwater (r)
  • sparrowhawk (r)
  • spoonbill (*)
  • spotted flycatcher
  • starling (c)
  • stock dove
  • stonechat
  • storm petrel (r)
  • swallow (r)
  • swift
  • teal
  • tree pipit
  • tufted duck
  • turnstone (r)
  • velvet scoter (*)
  • wheatear
  • whimbrel
  • white fronted goose
  • white wagtail
  • whitethroat (r)
  • white-winged black tern (**)
  • whooper swan
  • wigeon
  • willow warbler
  • winchat
  • woodchat shrike (r)
  • wood pigeon
  • wren (c)
  • yellow legged gull (r*)