Red-throated Diver to Ruddy Duck

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* Not yet fully accepted onto the official Irish List

Red-throated Diver Black-throated Diver Great Northern Diver White-billed Diver Pied-billed Grebe	* W & RLS RW-Eu W V-Ar (6,2000) V-Am (4,1999)
Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Red-necked Grebe Slavonian Grebe Black-necked Grebe	* CA * A RW-Eu UW * RLS & RW-Eu
Black-browed Albatross Fulmar 'soft-plumaged' Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Cory's Shearwater	V-Oc (10,1999) * CA V-Oc (28,2000) V-Oc(1,1975) RP-Eu%
Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater Balearic Shearwater Little Shearwater	UP% P% * LCS & CP R-Eu V-Oc (35,2000)
Wilson's Petrel Storm Petrel Leach's Petrel Swinhoe's Petrel * Madeiran Petrel	V-Oc (2000) * CLS & CP * RLS & UP V-Oc (1,2000) V-Oc (1,1931)
Gannet Cormorant Double-crested Cormt. Shag Frigatebird spp.	* LCS, CP & W * CA V-Am (1,1996) * CA V-Oc (5,1996)
Bittern American Bittern Little Bittern Night Heron Squacco Heron	(*) V-Eu (1999) V-Am (22,1990) V-Eu (53,1997) R-Eu (61,2000) V-Eu (16,1999)
Cattle Egret Little Egret Great White Egret Grey Heron Purple Heron	V-Eu (8,1999) * UA> V-Eu/ Am (15,2000) * A V-Eu (20,1998)
Black Stork White Stork Glossy Ibis Spoonbill Mute Swan	V-Eu (1,1987) V-Eu (27,2000) V-Eu (2000) R-Eu (2000) * CA
Bewick's Swan Whooper Swan Taiga Bean Goose Pink-footed Goose White-fronted Goose	W (*) CW VW-Eu (1998) LUW LCW
Lssr. White-fronted Goose Greylag Goose Snow Goose Canada Goose Barnacle Goose	V-Eu (1,1969) LFA & LW RW-Am (97,1998) LFA & RW-Am LW
Brent Goose Red-breasted Goose * Ruddy Shelduck Shelduck Mandarin Duck	CW V-As (1,1997) V-Eu (c.73,1946) * CA RLA>
Wigeon American Wigeon Gadwall Teal Mallard	(*) CW R-Am (84,2000) * RS & LW * S< & CW * CA
Black Duck Pintail Garganey Blue-winged Teal Shoveler	V-Am (10,2000) * RS & W< (*) RS & UP R-Am (55,2000) * RS & CW<
Red-crested Pochard Pochard Ring-necked Duck Ferruginous Duck Tufted Duck	R-Eu (44,1999) * CW & RLS R-Am (76,2000) R-Eu (25,1997) * CA
Scaup Lesser Scaup Eider King Eider Long-tailed Duck	W V-Am (5,2000) * LA V-Ar (11,1999) W
Common Scoter Surf Scoter Velvet Scoter Bufflehead Goldeneye	*! W & LUS RW-Am UW V-Am (1,1998) LCW>
Hooded Merganser Smew Red-breasted Merganser Goosander Ruddy Duck	V-Am (3,1957) RW-Eu * CW & S< * RLS & RW-Eu * UA

Additions
Additions to the Irish List, 1990 to present.

Predictions
Predictions for additions to the Irish List.

Eleven years on...
Which predictions were correct!

Black-browed Albatross
(Eric Dempsey)
V-Oc (10,1999)
Means a vagrant, of oceanic origins, and there have been 10 records, the last in 1999.

Key to Irish List
Species origins for rarities
Eu - Europe
Am - America
As - Asia
Af - Africa
Oc - Oceanic
Ar - Arctic

Species status in Ireland
C - Common
U - Uncommon
P - Passage migrant
L - Localised
S - Summer
W - winter
A - All year
% - Variable numbers
R - Rare
V - Vagrant
F - Feral
n. - no. not known
c. - circa
> - Increasing
< - Decreasing
* - Breeds
(*) - Has bred

Note : ! - Indicates the 12 most threatened breeding species, as identified in Birdwatch Ireland's Conservation Strategy.