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Seabird species monitored

The following are species of seabirds regularly breeding in the British Isles, included within JNCC's Seabird Monitoring Programme, the Seabird Colony Register and Seabird 2000. Underlined species were those surveyed specifically as part of Seabird 2000 and clicking on these will take you to species accounts, summary tables and figures from this census.
 
Red-throated diver* Gavia stellata *
Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus
European Storm-petrel Hydrobates pelagicus
Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
European Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus
Great Skua Catharacta skua
Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus
Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
Mew Gull Larus canus
Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
Herring Gull Larus argentatus
Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis
Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
Common Tern Sterna hirundo
Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
Little Tern Sterna albifrons
Common Guillemot Uria aalge
Razorbill Alca torda
Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica

*Species not included in the Seabird 2000 census or Seabird Colony Register.
 
 
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