Updated European Bird List

With the leaves mostly off the trees I am seeing lots of the winter resident birds here in Nijmegen. I have taken several bike trips to surrounding parks and natural areas and added quite a few species to my European bird list. The Great Tits are numerous, rambunctious, and always a delight as were some Common Crossbills in some local woods and the Bullfinches I recently encountered near while cycling along the River Waal. But my personal highlights were the treecreeper (similar to our brown creeper) out my window and encountering a Black Woodpecker (like our Pileated but jet black with a red head) while cycling in some nearby woods. I was so surprised and amazed by the site I almost fell off my bike.

Here's my updated bird list with some very so-so photos and a video I took this summer.

Atlantic Canary - Tenerife
Alpine Chough - Slovenia
Barn Swallow – Drogheda, Ireland
Barnacle Goose- Stockholm, Sweden
Black Throated Loon - Tyrestra National park
Black Woodpecker - Nijmegen
Blackbird - Longford, Ireland
Berthelot's Pipit - Tenerife
Blue Tit – Arnhem, NL
Blue Chaffinch – Tenerife
Bullfinch - Nijmegen
Chaffinch – Bawnboy, Ireland
Coal Tit – Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Collard Dove – Marken, NL
Common Buzzard - Nijmegen
Common Crossbills - Nijmegen
Common Pheasant – Banagher, Ireland
Common Swift – Dublin, Ireland
Common Tern - Copenhagen
Eurasion Coot – Amsterdam, NL
Eurasion Jay - Brussels, Belgium
Eurasion Kingfisher - Slovenia
Eurasion Nuthatch - Nijmegen, NL
Eurasion Spoonbill - Nijmegen, NL
European Goldfinch - Nijmegen, NL
European Robin - Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Eygptian Goose – Amsterdam, NL
Great Comorant – Dublin, Ireland
Great Crested Grebe – Amsterdam, NL
Great Egret - Nijmegen
Great Spotted Woodpecke - Tyrestra National Park
Great Tit - Nijmegen, NL
Green Finch - Tyrestra National Park
Grey Heron - Dublin, Ireland
Grey Wagtail – Drogheda, Ireland
Greyling Goose - Nijmegen NL
Herring Gull – Drogheda, Ireland
Hooded Crow – Dublin, Ireland
House Martin – Bownboy, Ireland
House Sparrow - Edgeworthtown, Ireland
Jackdaw – Dublin, Ireland
Lapwing – Broek in Water, NL
Lesser White-faced Goose - Nijmegen
Magpie - Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Meadow Pipit - Finse Norway
Mediterranean Gull - Nijmegen, NL
Mute Swan – Dublin, Ireland
Oyster Catcher – near Amsterdam, Netherlands
Peregrine Falcon - Stuttgart, Germany
Red Head - Copenhagen
Ringed Plover- Finse Norway
Rock Dove – Dublin, Ireland
Rook - Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Rose-Ringed Parakeet – Amsterdam, NL
Rough Legged Buzzard - Finse Norway
Teal - Nijmegen
Tenerife Blue Tit– Tenerife
Tenerife Kestrel – Tenerife
Treecreeper - Nijmegen
Tufted Duck – Dublin, Ireland
Whinchat - Finse Norway
White Stork – Amsterdam, NL
White/Pied Wagtail – Drogheda, Ireland
White Throated Dipper - Slovenia
Winter Wren - Bawnboy, Ireland
Wood Duck - London
Wood Pigeon - Dublin, Ireland
Wooper Swan - Tyrestra National Park
Yellow Hammer - Tyrestra National Park

Mediterranean Gull - Nijmegen, NL

Great Egret - near Nijmegen

Common Crossbill - near Nijmegen

Great Crested Grebe - Near Nijmegen

Great Cormorant - near Nijmegen

Great Tit - near Nijmegen

I took this video of a Grey Heron fishing in an Amsterdam park in July.