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Species Status - Summer Species

The other sections are Resident Species, Winter Species, Passage Species, Vagrant & Others.

Each of the sections use the following keys on each page:

R – Resident all year round

S – Summer visitor

W – Winter visitor

PM – Passage migrant

V – Vagrant

E – Presumed Escape

* - Previous breeding species, now extinct

** - as yet not accepted by relevant rarities committee

red text – pre-1950’s records

Vernacular Name	Scientific Name	Manx Name	R	S	W	PM	V	E
Manx Shearwater	Puffinus puffinus	Scraayl		X		X
Storm Petrel	Hydrobates pelagicus	Kitty Varrey = Sea Kitty ie Wren		X		X
Gannet	Morus bassanus	Gant		X		X
Shelduck	Tadorna tadorna	Thunnag y Scape		X	X	X
Eider	Somateria mollissima	Laagh Loughlinagh		X	X	X
Quail	Cortunix cortunix	Eean Feie		X		X
Corncrake	Crex crex	Eean Raip = the bird (which cries) 'raip'		X		X
Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus			X		X
Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	Looyran		X		X
Lesser Black-backed Gull	Larus fuscus	Foillan Saggyrt = Priest Gull		X		X
Kittiwake	Rissa tridactyla	Perragh		X		X
Sandwich Tern	Sterna sandvicensis			X		X
Arctic Tern	Sterna paradisaea			X		X
Little Tern	Sterna albifrons	Gant Beg		X		X
Guillemot	Uria aalge	Stronnag. Chennell		X	X	X
Razorbill	Alca torda	Coltrag		X	X	X
Puffin	Fratercula arctica	Pibbin. Poltrag		X		X
Cuckoo	Cuculus canorus	Cooag		X		X
Swift	Apus apus	Gollan ny Greg		X		X
Sand Martin	Riparia riparia	Gollan Geinnee		X		X
Swallow	Hirundo rustica	Gollan geayee = Fork of the Wind		X		X
House Martin	Delichon urbica	Gollan Thie		X		X
Whinchat	Saxicola rubetra			X		X
Wheatear	Oenanthe oenanthe	Claggan cloaie		X		X
Grasshopper Warbler	Locustella naevia			X		X
Sedge Warbler	Acrocephalus schoenobaneus			X		X
Whitethroat	Sylvia communis	Fynnag ny Keylley		X		X
Blackcap	Sylvia atricapilla	Bayrn dhoo		X	X	X
Wood Warbler	Phylloscopus sibilatrix	Kiaulleyder Keylley		X		X
Chiffchaff	Phylloscopus collybita	Beealerey		X	X	X
Willow Warbler	Phylloscopus trochilus	Drean Vane = White Wren		X		X
Spotted Flycatcher	Muscicapa striata	Skybbyltagh breck		X		X

Each of the sections use the following keys on each page:

R – Resident all year round

S – Summer visitor

W – Winter visitor

PM – Passage migrant

V – Vagrant

E – Presumed Escape

* - Previous breeding species, now extinct

** - as yet not accepted by relevant rarities committee

red text – pre-1950’s records