Black-tailed Godwit to Short-eared Owl
* Not yet fully accepted onto the official Irish List

Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Eskimo Curlew Whimbrel Curlew	* RLS, CP & W CW V-Am (1,1870) US & CP * S & CW
Upland Sandpiper Spotted Redshank Redshank Marsh Sandpiper Greenshank	V-Am (11,1995) P & UW * A & CW V-Eu (5,1999) (*) P & W
Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper	V-Am (12,1995) R-Am (79,1999) V-Am (3,1974) P & UW UP
Terek Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Turnstone Wilson's Phalarope	V-As (1,1996) * S & RW V-Am (12,1997) S & SW R-Am (73,1999)
Red-necked Phalarope Grey Phalarope Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua Long-tailed Skua	* RLS & R-Eu UP UP P R-Eu%
Great Skua Mediterranean Gull Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Little Gull	P * UA> V-Am (18,1998) V-Am (6,1999) UW & P
Sabine's Gull Bonaparte's Gull Black-headed Gull Ring-billed Gull Common Gull	R-Ar% V-Am (26,2000) * CA R-Am% * A
Lesser Black-backed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Thayer's Gull* Glaucous Gull	* CS & W * CA< UW% V-Am(5,1999) UW%
Great Black-backed Gull Ross's Gull Kittiwake Ivory Gull Gull-billed Tern	* A V-Ar (14,2000) * CA V-Ar (16,1999) V-Eu/Am (9,2000)
Caspian Tern Royal Tern Lesser Crested Tern Sandwich Tern Elegant Tern	V-Eu/Am (6,1998) V-Am/Af (2,1999) V-As (1,1996) * S V-Am(2,1999)
Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Bridled Tern *	*! LUS< * S< * S V-Am (8,1997) V-Oc (1,1953)
Little Tern Whiskered Tern Black Tern White-winged Black Tern Guillemot	* LS V-Eu (16,1999) (*) UP R-Eu (65,2000) * CA
Brunnich's Guillemot Razorbill Black Guillemot Little Auk Puffin	V-Ar (1,1986) * CA * A R-Ar% * LCS & UW
Pallas's Sandgrouse Rock Dove Stock Dove Woodpigeon Collared Dove	V-As (n.,1888) * LA * A< * CA * A
Turtle Dove Great Spotted Cuckoo Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo	* US & UP V-Eu (4,1983) * S< V-Am (1,1871) V-Am(9,1994)
Barn Owl Scops Owl Snowy Owl Little Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl	*! A< V-Eu (14,1999) V-Ar (63,1998) V-Eu (4,1981) * A (*) W

Additions
Additions to the Irish List, 1990 to present.

Predictions
Predictions for additions to the Irish List.

Eleven years on...
Which predictions were correct!

Common Sandpiper
(Eric Dempsey)
* S & RW
Indicates it breeds, is a summer visitor and is rare in winter.

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.