Παρά το μικρό της μέγεθος, η Ελλάδα παρουσιάζει αξιόλογη βιοποικιλότητα, με ιδιαίτερα πολλά είδη πτηνών. Τόσο ενδημικά όσο και αποδημητικά πουλιά βρίσκουν καταφύγιο στους προστατευόμενους βιότοπους, τις λίμνες και τα δάση μας.
Επειδή είναι ύψιστης σημασία η προστασία των ειδών, παραθέτουμε εδώ τη λίστα της Ελληνικής Ορνιθολογικής Εταιρείας με τα σπανιότερα πτηνά της Ελλάδας. Στην αριστερή στήλη αναφέρεται η αγγλική ονομασία, και στα δεξιά η αντίστοιχη επιστημονική.
Η λίστα με τα πιο σπάνια πουλιά
Η Ελληνική Ορνιθολογική Εταιρεία έχει καταγράψει πάνω από 100 σπάνια είδη:
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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