Photos by resident ornithologist and artist Martin Elliott
(all photos Copyright Martin Elliott – 2013)
Blackcap
Female Blackcap (Scientific name: Sylvia atricapilla)
Chiffchaff
(Scientific name: Phylloscopus collybita)
Red-Billed Chough
(Scientific name: Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax)
Northern Gannet
(Scientific name: Morus Bassanus)
Hoopoe
(Scientific name: Upupa epops)
Black-legged Kittiwake – 1st Winter
(Scientific name: Rissa tridactyla)
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
(Scientific name: Larus fuscus)
Lesser Whitethroat (Scientific name: Sylvia curruca)
(Scientific name: Sylvia curruca)
Male Linnet
(Scientific name: Carduelis Cannabina)
Nuthatch
(Scientific name: Sitta Europaea)
Peregrine Falcon
(Scientific name: Falco peregrinus)
Swift
(Scientific name: Apus Apus)
Turnstone
(Scientific name: Arenaria interpres)
Male Wheatear
(Scientific name: Oenanthe oenanthe)
Whimbrel
(Scientific name: Numenius phaeopus)
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*)