PUFFIN EXPRESS

Principal mammals & birds seen on our John o'Groats Tour

Names in italics are North American equivalents - not claimed to be exhaustive!

Mammals
Rabbit
Brown hare
Stoat
Weasel
Common [Harbor] seal
Grey seal
Red deer
Roe deer
Common dolphin
Porpoise

Birds
Fulmar petrel
Gannet
Shag
Cormorant
Grey heron
Mute swan
Whooper swan
Greylag goose
Shelduck
Mallard
Wigeon
Teal
Eider
Red-breasted merganser
Red kite
Osprey
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Hen harrier [Northern harrier]
Peregrine
Merlin
Kestrel
Red grouse
Pheasant
Moorhen
Coot

Oystercatcher
Ringed plover
[Ruddy] Turnstone
Lapwing
Dunlin
Redshank
Curlew
Whimbrel
Great skua
Arctic skua [Parasitic jaeger]
Black-headed gull
Herring gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Great black-backed gull
Common gull
Kittiwake
Sandwich tern
Arctic tern
Razorbill
Guillemot [Common murre]
[Atlantic] Puffin
Black guillemot
Rock dove
Stock dove
Wood pigeon
Collared dove
Short-eared owl
Swift

Skylark
[Barn] Swallow
House martin
Sand martin [Bank sawllow]
Meadow pipit
Rock pipit
Pied wagtail
Grey wagtail
Willow warbler
Stonechat
Wheatear
Robin
Blackbird
[Winter] Wren
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Twite
Linnet
House sparrow
Starling
Rook
Carrion crow
Hooded crow
Jackdaw
Raven

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