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APPENDIX A: SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF BIRD SPECIES INCLUDED IN THE REPORT
The table below lists the names of birds used throughout this report and the scientific names of those birds. The bird species names that have been used are those that are in common use amongst English ornithologists. This corresponds to the “British (English) vernacular name 2012” identified by the British Ornithologists Union (BOU, 2012). The corresponding scientific names are those also listed in that BOU publication.
British (English) Vernacular Name Shelduck Scaup
Red-throated diver Black-throated diver Great northern diver Fulmar Gannet
Arctic skua
Long-tailed skua Great skua Sabine’s gull Kittiwake
Black-headed gull Little gull
Common gull
Lesser black-backed gull Herring gull
Great black-backed gull Common tern Arctic tern Guillemot Razorbill Little auk Puffin
Scientific Name Tadorna tadorna Aythya marila Gavia stellata Gavia arctica Gavia immer