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WHERE TO FIND THE ISLAND'S MORE INTERESTING BIRDS

Red-throated Diver Ayres (passage, winter), Calf (passage)
Black-throated Diver Ayres (passage, winter), Calf (passage)
Great Northern Diver Ayres (passage, winter); Calf (passage); Derbyhaven and Peel Bay (winter)
Little Grebe Stillwaters and harbours (winter); Breeds occasionally
Other grebes Derbyhaven (winter)
Manx Shearwater Calf and coast north to Peel (passage, summer); Ayres (passage)
Storm Petrel Calf and coast north to Peel (passage, summer)
Cormorant Colonies at Maughold, Ladyport, Will's Strand, Pistol Castle and Baie Fine (summer)
Bewick's Swan Ballacain Dubs and meadows (winter) - scarce - with Whoopers.
Whooper Swan Ballacain Dubs and meadows (winter)
Brent Goose Derbyhaven, Castletown Bay, Strandhall (winter)
Shoveler Glascoe and other northern dubs (all year); Langness (winter)
Pochard Eairy & Kionslieu and Kerrowdhoo Reservoirs; Point of Ayre GP (winter)
Tufted Duck Eairy & Kionslieu and Kerrowdhoo and Port-e-Chee (winter); Kionslieu (summer)
Eider Calf of Man and Niarbyl (summer); west coast (passage); Ayres (winter)
Goldeneye West Castletown Bay, Port Jack, north Ramsey and stillwaters (winter)
Hen Harrier Moorland (all year); Roosts at Ballaugh Curraghs and Stoney Mountain (winter)
Water Rail Ballaugh Curraghs (winter); Calf of Man (all year)
Golden Plover Ayres, northern plain and between Derbyhaven and Strandhall (passage, winter)
Grey Plover Derbyhaven, Langness, Carrick Bay and Ayres (passage, winter)
Knot Derbyhaven and Langness (passage, winter); Ayres (passage)
Sanderling Ayres (passage)
Little Stint Langness and Ayres (passage)
Purple Sandpiper Peel Castle, Port Jack, Port St. Mary Point and Niarbyl (passage, winter)
Ruff Langness (passage)
Woodcock Roding - Greeba and Ballaugh Curraghs; Barrule Plantation (summer)
Black-tailed Godwit Langness and Derbyhaven (passage)
Bar-tailed Godwit Langness, Derbyhaven and Strandhall (passage, winter)
Whimbrel Langness, Derbyhaven and Ayres (passage)
Greenshank Langness and Derbyhaven (passage)
Skuas Ayres, Peel and Calf of Man (passage)
Common Gull Ayres gravel pits (summer)
Herring Gull Inland colonies at Sartfell, Slieau Freoghane and Slieau Dhpp (summer)
Great Black-backed Gull Calf of Man and Slieau Freoghane (summer)
Kittiwake Calf of Man, Sugarloaf, Maughold Head, Peel Hill (summer) Ayres (passage)
Sandwich Tern Ayres (bred twice); Ayres, Langness and most bays (passage)
Arctic & Little Tern Ayres (summer)
Guillemot Calf of Man, Peel Hill, Sugarloaf , Maughold Head (summer); Ayres (winter)
Black Guillemot Peel Hill and coast south, north of Fleshwick, Bradda, Baie Fine, Perwick, Gob Lhiack, Clay Head and Maughold (summer); Ayres, Peel, Derbyahven (winter)
Puffin Calf of Man, Spanish Head, Anvil, Maughold, Peel Hill (summer)
Long-eared Owl Plantations and shelter belts (all year)
Short-eared Owl Irregular Calf of Man, Glen Rushen, Stoney Mountain, Druidale (summer); Ayres and Langness (passage, winter)
Kingfisher Irregular lower Sulby River (summer);Tromode millstream, harbours and rocky coasts (passage)
Sand Martin Colonies at Dog Mills, Glen Mooar and Ballaharra Sandpit (summer)
House Martin Cliff nesting at Port Soderick, Port Soldrick and Maughold (summer)
Black Redstart Port St. Mary Harbour, Peel Castle (winter)
Whinchat Laxey, Corrany and upper Glen Audyn valleys (summer); Calf of Man, Ayres (passage)
Stonechat Widespread on or near coast (all year)
Wheatear Most coasts (passage); Ayres, Orrisdale Head, Bradda, Anvil, Calf of Man (summer)
Grasshopper Warbler Ballaugh and Greeba Curraghs (passage, summer)
Wood Warbler Ramsey Hairpin woods, Dhoon valley, Glen Helen (p & possibly s)
Chough Coastal cliffs (summer); Marine Drive, Castletown Bay, Carrick Bay, Cregneash area and southern hills (winter)
Raven Widespread on coast and hills (all year); certain plantations and glens (summer); Ayres coast & Refuse tip (winter)
Siskin Lower Neb valley, Glen Wyllin (passage, winter); Plantations, Ballaugh Curraghs (summer)
Lesser Redpoll Ballaugh Curraghs (all year); Glen Rushen and Sartfell Plantations (summer)
Crossbill Plantations particularly Stoney Mountain (summer)
Yellowhammer Northern plain (all year - increasingly scarce); Raggatt (summer)


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