Common Name

Latin Name

Date Seen

Number

Where

Seen By

American Black Duck

(1st Mayo Record)

Anas rubripes

Jan-Mar

1 Adult Male

Achill Island

EMcG

TM

Ring-Necked Duck

Aythya collaris (90;3)

19-24 Feb

1 Mar

1Adult M

1Adult F

Doogan Lake

Termoncarragh

PK, TM

TM

Eider (They bred)

Somateria mollissima

3 Pairs

Slavonian Grebe

Podiceps auritus

5 Feb,13 Nov

10

Blacksod

Fulmar

Fulmarus glacialis

17 May

2

Achill Island

Great Shearwater

Puffinus gravis

11 Jul

2

Kilcummin Hd

Sooty Shearwater

Puffinus griseus

2 Sep

2000+

Kilcummin Hd

Balearic Shearwater

Puffinus

mauretanicus

14 Aug

13 Sep

1

3

Annagh Hd

Kilcummin Hd

Leach’s Petrel

Oceanodroma leucorhoa

Early Sept

2000 peak

Kilcummin Hd

Corncrake

Crex Crex

19 males

W Connacht

Grey Phalarope

Phalaropus

fulicarius

8-13 Sept

20 Sep

6

1

Kilcummin Hd

Clew Bay

Pomarine Skua

Stercorarius pomarinus

17 May

Jul-Sep

14 Aug

9

10

3

Achill Island

Kilcummin Hd

Iniskea South

Arctic Skua

Stercorarius parasiticus

Early Sep

316

Kilcummin Hd

Great Skua

Catharacta skua

2 Sept

140-365

Kilcummin Hd

Little Gull

Larus minutus

2 Sept

2

Kilcummin Hd

Sabine’s Gull

Larus sabini

Jul-Sep

89 Total

Kilcummin Hd

Yellow-legged

(Herring) Gull

Larus (argentatus)

Michaelellis (167;38)

16 Sept

1

Mullet

Peninsula

Iceland Gull

Larus glaucoides

2 Jan

23 Feb

10

7

Newport Dump

Newport Dump

Elegant Tern

(3^rd Irish Record)

Sterna elegans (2; 1)

19 Oct

1

Mulranney

DS,TM,EMcG

Glaucous Gull

Larus hyperboreus

2 Jan

4

Newport Dump

Black Tern

Chlidonias niger

2 Sept

23 Oct

4

1

Kilcummin Hd

Cross Lough

Waxwing

Barnbycilla garrulus

5 Jan

5

Castlebar

Lesser Whitethroat

Sylvia curruca

9 Oct

1

Ross Port

Brambling

Fringilla montifringilla

19 Oct

23 Oct

2

3

Erris Head

Termoncarragh

Twite

Carduelis flavirostris

1 Mar

100

Termoncarragh

Corn Bunting

Miliaria calandra

4 Jan

1

Achill Island

EMcG