Birds of Conservation Concern in Ireland 2020-2026 Amber-list species (medium conservation concern) Breeding Breeding continued Wintering continued Goosander Swallow Smew Garganey Sand Martin Pintail Spotted Crake Willow Warbler Black-throated Diver European Storm-petrel Starling Great Northern Diver Fulmar Spotted Flycatcher Bittern Manx Shearwater Northern Wheatear Turnstone Gannet Goldcrest Brambling Shag House Sparrow Little Ringed Plover Tree Sparrow Breeding and Wintering Common Sandpiper Greenfinch Mute Swan Mediterranean Gull Linnet Whooper Swan Little Tern Pied Flycatcher Red-breasted Merganser Roseate Tern Western Yellow Wagtail Shelduck Common Tern Tufted Duck Arctic Tern Passage Gadwall Sandwich Tern Cory's Shearwater Wigeon Great Skua Ruff Mallard Black Guillemot Spotted Redshank Teal Common Guillemot Wood Sandpiper Great Crested Grebe Short-eared Owl Little Gull Coot Marsh Harrier Black Tern Red-throated Diver Hen Harrier Wryneck Cormorant Goshawk Tree Pipit Ringed Plover Kingfisher Black-headed Gull Merlin Wintering Common Gull Chough Brent Goose Lesser Black-backed Gull Skylark Barnacle Goose European Herring Gull Bearded Reedling Greylag Goose House Martin Greater White-fronted Goose For more information, please see Gilbert G, Stanbury A and Lewis L (2021), “Birds of Conservation Concern in Ireland 2020 –2026”. Irish Birds 43: 1–22 The categorisation of species as breeding, wintering etc. refers to the populations against which BoCCI criteria were applied Birds of Conservation Concern in Ireland 2020-2026 Red-list species (high conservation concern) Breeding Breeding continued Wintering continued Quail Ring Ouzel Grey Plover Grey Partridge Common Redstart Bar-tailed Godwit Red Grouse Whinchat Black-tailed Godwit Black-necked Grebe Meadow Pipit Knot Stock Dove Grey Wagtail Purple Sandpiper Nightjar Twite Snowy Owl Swift Yellowhammer Redwing Corncrake Leach’s Storm-petrel Passage Breeding and Wintering Woodcock Turtle Dove Eider Red-necked Phalarope Balearic Shearwater Common Scoter Kittiwake Curlew Sandpiper Pochard Puffin Shoveler Razorbill Wintering Oystercatcher Barn Owl Bewick's Swan Golden Plover Golden Eagle Long-tailed Duck Lapwing White-tailed Eagle Velvet Scoter Curlew Red Kite Goldeneye Dunlin Kestrel Scaup Snipe Wood Warbler Slavonian Grebe Redshank For more information, please see Gilbert G, Stanbury A and Lewis L (2021), “Birds of Conservation Concern in Ireland 2020 –2026”. Irish Birds 43: 1–22 The categorisation of species as breeding, wintering etc. refers to the populations against which BoCCI criteria were applied .