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Hellenic Rarities Committee, photo: Lambros Logothetis
List of the Rare Birds οf Greece
Area: Greece
List compiled by: Hellenic Rarities Committee

  Species Scientific Name
1 Bean Goose Anser fabalis  
2 Snow Goose Anser caerulescens  
3 Brant Goose Branta bernicla  
4 Blue-winged Teal Anas discors  
5 Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris  
6 Common Eider Somateria mollissima  
7 Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis  
8 Common Scoter Melanitta nigra  
9 Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca  
10 Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus  
11 Black Grouse Tetrao tetrix  
12 Great Northern Loon Gavia immer  
13 Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis  
14 Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus  
15 European Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus  
16 Western Reef Egret Egretta gularis  
17 Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca  
18 Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus  
19 Amur Falcon Falco amurensis  
20 Barbary Falcon Falco pelegrinoides  
21 Corn Crake Crex crex  
22 Allen’s Gallinule Porphyrio alleni  
23 Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio  
24 Demoiselle Crane Grus virgo  
25 Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax  
26 Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata  
27 Great Bustard Otis tarda  
28 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva  
29 Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius  
30 White-tailed Lapwing Vanellus leucurus  
31 Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius  
32 Caspian Plover Charadrius asiaticus  
33 Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda  
34 Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris  
35 Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus  
36 Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima  
37 Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris bairdii  
38 White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis  
39 Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis  
40 Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos  
41 Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor  
42 Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius  
43 Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius  
44 Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes  
45 Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus  
46 Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor  
47 Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni  
48 Pomarine Skua Stercorarius pomarinus  
49 Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus  
50 Great Skua Stercorarius skua  
51 Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus  
52 Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis  
53 Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea  
54 Laughing Gull Larus atricilla  
55 Pallas's Gull Larus ichthyaetus  
56 White-eyed Gull Larus leucophthalmus  
57 European Herring Gull Larus argentatus  
58 Armenian Gull Larus armenicus  
59 Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides  
60 Greater Black-backed Gull Larus marinus  
61 Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis  
62 Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata  
63 Pallas's Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes paradoxus  
64 Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis  
65 Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis  
66 Eurasian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum  
67 Ural Owl Strix uralensis  
68 Little Swift Apus affinis  
69 White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis  
70 Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis  
71 Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis  
72 Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti  
73 Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata  
74 White-winged Lark Melanocorypha leucoptera  
75 Black Lark Melanocorypha yeltoniensis  
76 Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens  
77 Blyth’s Pipit Anthus godlewskii  
78 Eurasian Rock Pipit Anthus petrosus  
79 White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis  
80 Moussier's Redstart Phoenicurus moussieri  
81 Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus  
82 Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti  
83 Finsch's Wheatear Oenanthe finschii  
84 Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha  
85 White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga  
86 Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura  
87 White's Thrush Zoothera dauma  
88 Black-throated Thrush Turdus atrogularis  
89 Booted Warbler Iduna caligata  
90 Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca  
91 Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta  
92 Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola  
93 Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola  
94 Marmora’s Warbler Sylvia sarda  
95 Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata  
96 Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata  
97 Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus  
98 Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis  
99 Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus  
100 Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus  
101 Hume’s Warbler Phylloscopus humei  
102 Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus  
103 Western Bonelli’s Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli  
104 Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus  
105 Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica  
106 Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus  
107 Turkestan Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides  
108 Southern Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis  
109 Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor  
110 Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus  
111 Pale Rockfinch Carpospiza brachydactyla  
112 Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus  
113 Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus  
114 Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus  
115 Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis  
116 Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos  
117 Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica  
118 Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla  
119 Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola  

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