1. Little Grebe
2. Great Crested Grebe
3. Black-necked Grebe
4. Yelkouan Shearwater
5. Gannet
6. Cormorant
7. Little Egret
8. Great Egret
9. Grey Heron
10. White Stork
11. Eurasian Spoonbill
12. Greater Flamingo
13. Greylag Goose
14. Shelduck
15. Eurasian Wigeon
16. Gadwall
17. Teal
18. Mallard
19. Northern Pintail
20. Northern Shoveler
21. Common Pochard
22. Ferruginous Duck: about 130 at Lentini Lake on 6/1 and over 50 at the Simeto River on 11/1. South-eastern Sicily, and Lentini Lake in particular, is perhaps the most important wintering area in Europe for this species

23. Tufted Duck
24. Red-breasted Merganser
25. Marsh Harrier
26. Common Buzzard
27. Bonelli's Eagle: 1 juvenile at Lentini Lake on 11/1, this bird had been present off and on since early December. A few pairs of this species are still breeding in Sicily and this is almost certainly one of the offspring
28. Lesser Spotted Eagle: 1 juvenile at Vendicari on 7/1 had been present since December, and is likely the same individual that spent about a month at Siracusa saltpans in Nov/Dec. This is the first confirmed winter record for Italy and one of very few for Europe.

29. Eurasian Kestrel
30. Peregrine
31. Rock Partridge: 6 at Cava Grande on 10/1. The race whitakeri is endemic to Sicily and is another potential candidate for a split.
32. Quail
33. Water Rail
34. Common Moorhen
35. Eurasian Coot
36. Common Crane
37. Eurasian Oystercatcher
38. Black-winged Stilt
39. Pied Avocet
40. Stone Curlew
41. Common Ringed Plover
42. Kentish Plover
43. Golden Plover
44. Grey Plover
45. Northern Lapwing
46. Sanderling
47. Little Stint
48. Temminck's Stint
49. Dunlin
50. Ruff
51. Common Snipe
52. Black-tailed Godwit
53. Eurasian Curlew
54. Spotted Redshank
55. Common Redshank
56. Greenshank
57. Wood Sandpiper
58. Common Sandpiper
59. Pomarine Skua
60. Arctic Skua
61. Mediterranean Gull
62. Little Gull
63. Black-headed Gull
64. Slender-billed Gull
65. Common Gull
66. Lesser Black-backed Gull
67. Baltic Gull
68. Yellow-legged Gull
69. Caspian Gull: As many as 100+ were at Lentini Lake on 6/1, and about 20 were at the nearby landfill on 11/1. At the landfill on 11/1 as many as 10-15% of adult "yellow-legged" gulls were Caspian Gulls, but only a very small percentage of first-year birds were Caspian Gulls. The status of this species is still very little known in Italy, but it has been apparent from recent observations that it is locally fairly common in south-east Sicily in winter.
70. Great Black-headed Gull: 3-4 adults at Lentini Lake on 6/1, and 1 there on 12/1. The species has been wintering regularly here in small numbers (as many as 8 have been present) for the past several years.
71. Kittiwake
72. Sandwich Tern
73. Whiskered Tern
74. Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon
75. Woodpigeon
76. Collared Dove
77. Scops Owl
78. Little Owl
79. Common Swift
80. Common Kingfisher
81. Hoopoe
82. Calandra Lark
83. Short-toed Lark: 1 at Longarini/Cuba on 10/1 was the first winter record for Sicily, and one of very few for Italy
84. Crested Lark
85. Woodlark
86. Sky Lark
87. Meadow Pipit
88. Red-throated Pipit: 31 at Longarini/Cuba on 10/1 were the largest flock ever recorded in Italy in winter. 1 flew over Lentini Lake on 6/1
89. Water Pipit
90. Richard's Pipit: 1 at Lentini Lake 6/1, 11 at Siracusa north coast on 9/1, 2 at Capo d'Ognina on the same date, 2 at Longarini/Cuba on 10/1. This species is now known to winter regularly in south-eastern Sicily, with as many as 40-50 birds present last year. This year numbers seem to be lower, but once vocalizations and habitat preferences are learned it is relatively easy to find.
91. Yellow Wagtail
92. Grey Wagtail
93. White Wagtail
94. Wren
95. Dunnock
96. Robin
97. Bluethroat: 1 at Lentini Lake on 6/1, 3 at Longarini/Cuba on 10/1
98. Black Redstart
99. Stonechat
100. Blue Rock Thrush
101. Blackbird
102. Song Thrush
103. Cetti's Warbler
104. Fan-tailed Warbler
105. Moustached Warbler
106. Dartford Warbler
107. Sardinian Warbler
108. Blackcap
109. Chiffchaff
110. Goldcrest
111. Firecrest
112. Long-tailed Tit: 1 of the siculus race in the Iblei Mountains on 13/1. This race is morphologically and vocally distinct from continental birds, and builds a different nest. It may be a potential candidate for a split
113. Coal Tit
114. Blue Tit
115. Great Tit
116. Short-toed Treecreeper
117. Penduline Tit
118. Steppe Grey Shrike: The bird found by Andrea at Penisola Magnisi in December continued throughout our stay. It is the second record for Italy, and along with the Steppe Grey Shrike currently in Cyprus the first wintering record for Europe
119. Eurasian Jay
120. Magpie
121. Jackdaw
122. Hooded Crow
123. Raven
124. Common Starling
125. Spotless Starling
126. Spanish Sparrow
127. Tree Sparrow
128. Rock Sparrow
129. Chaffinch
130. Serin
131. Greenfinch
132. Goldfinch
133. Linnet
134. Cirl Bunting
135. Reed Bunting
136. Corn Bunting

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