Distributions and Community Composition of Birds in Iraq’s Central Marsh

Table 4

Species observations and counts (October, 2013–June, 2014) in the Iraqi Central Marsh. Scientific names are provided in Appendix Table 7.

	Species English name	Species observations & counts (Oct, 2013–Jun, 2014)
		Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
(1)	Black Francolin	0	2	4	6	1	0	4	2	2
(2)	Greylag Goose	7	0	77	10	0	0	0	0	0
(3)	Mallard	0	0	47	55	0	2	0	0	0
(4)	Northern Shoveler	0	0	46	0	0	0	0	0	0
(5)	Northern Pintail	0	0	400	175	15	0	0	0	0
(6)	Garganey	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0
(7)	Eurasian Teal	0	0	66	168	45	47	0	0	0
(8)	Marbled Duck	0	0	35	5	10	0	22	0	0
(9)	Ferruginous Duck	0	8	21	0	10	0	0	0	0
(10)	Little Grebe	58	42	70	95	81	40	14	30	72
(11)	Great Crested Grebe	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
(12)	White Stork	0	0	380	200	40	0	0	0	0
(13)	African Sacred Ibis	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
(14)	Glossy Ibis	0	0	25	9	2	230	10	0	11
(15)	Eurasian Bittern	0	1	0	2	2	2	2	0	1
(16)	Little Bittern	0	1	0	0	0	0	111	203	143
(17)	Black-Crowned Night Heron	0	0	2	1	0	1	11	21	56
(18)	Squacco Heron	41	132	181	85	116	970	100	39	90
(19)	Cattle Egret	55	83	0	18	6	0	0	0	0
(20)	Grey Heron	3	13	1	0	51	23	11	0	0
(21)	Purple Heron	8	9	19	11	6	10	33	12	8
(22)	Great White Egret	0	0	0	0	10	12	0	0	0
(23)	Little Egret	74	68	1046	750	665	380	33	12	505
(24)	Great White pelican	0	0	533	500	150	0	0	0	0
(25)	Pygmy Cormorant	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	21	23
(26)	Great Cormorant	2	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
(27)	Black-Winged Kite	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
(28)	White-Tailed Sea Eagle	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
(29)	Cinereous Vulture	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
(30)	Short-Toed Snake-Eagle	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
(31)	Western Marsh Harrier	12	13	28	23	18	15	1	1	0
(32)	Pallid Harrier	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
(33)	Montagu’s Harrier	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
(34)	Eurasian Sparrow hawk	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
(35)	Long-Legged Buzzard	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
(36)	Greater Spotted Eagle	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0
(37)	Steppe Eagle	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
(38)	Common Kestrel	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
(39)	Eurasian Hobby	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
(40)	Water Rail	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
(41)	Little Crake	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
(42)	Spotted Crake	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
(43)	Purple Swamphen	0	8	0	3	0	7	18	0	2
(44)	Common Moorhen	15	17	10	22	13	2	3	2	11
(45)	Common Coot	0	4	87	245	125	14	0	0	0
(46)	Black-Winged Stilt	28	14	25	236	44	17	136	42	75
(47)	Spur-Winged Lapwing	1	0	0	0	0	2	19	9	7
(48)	Red-Wattled Lapwing	12	9	5	9	1	3	4	7	6
(49)	White-Tailed Lapwing	21	12	24	154	90	40	57	45	48
(50)	Common Ringed Plover	9	6	4	10	3	0	0	0	0
(51)	Little Ringed Plover	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	2	0
(52)	Kentish Plover	4	10	43	23	13	0	0	0	2
(53)	Common Snipe	1	0	0	1	0	2	21	0	0
(54)	Common Redshank	0	0	0	0	1	11	8	0	0
(55)	Marsh Sandpiper	0	6	0	19	8	28	0	0	0
(56)	Common Greenshank	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
(57)	Green Sandpiper	3	1	0	1	4	2	0	0	0
(58)	Wood Sandpiper	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
(59)	Terek Sandpiper	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
(60)	Common Sandpiper	3	6	8	4	5	4	8	7	0
(61)	Sanderling	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
(62)	Little Stint	0	1	0	5	1	0	6	3	0
(63)	Curlew Sandpiper	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	0
(64)	Ruff	0	0	0	0	0	1	85	6	0
(65)	Collared Pratincole	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	9	4
(66)	Slender-Billed Gull	17	165	480	487	891	163	164	78	90
(67)	Black-Headed Gull	0	35	130	246	685	232	149	17	0
(68)	Armenian Gull	0	2	2	5	6	21	5	0	0
(69)	Gull-Billed Tern	2	10	0	0	0	0	0	9	0
(70)	Little Tern	11	3	0	0	0	0	20	9	16
(71)	Common Tern	0	6	0	0	0	53	43	9	18
(72)	Whiskered Tern	53	81	639	741	279	113	61	125	63
(73)	White-Winged Tern	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	0
(74)	Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse	0	0	0	0	0	23	16	0	0
(75)	European Turtle Dove	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
(76)	Eurasian Collared Dove	16	21	36	26	35	23	17	14	6
(77)	Laughing Dove	0	1	2	13	3	5	7	2	0
(78)	Common Barn-Owl	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
(79)	Egyptian Nightjar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
(80)	White-Breasted Kingfisher	9	17	25	38	30	25	10	4	7
(81)	Common Kingfisher	10	12	29	18	25	17	5	1	3
(82)	Pied Kingfisher	236	318	542	500	461	293	269	245	147
(83)	Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater	10	9	0	0	0	0	28	0	0
(84)	European Bee-Eater	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0
(85)	Eurasian Hoopoe	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
(86)	Red-Backed Shrike	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	52	0
(87)	Isabelline Shrike	6	8	12	25	5	2	0	0	0
(88)	Turkestan Isabelline Shrike	2	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	0
(89)	Lesser Grey Shrike	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	31	0
(90)	Eurasian Golden Oriole	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
(91)	Hooded Crow	0	0	2	0	5	2	0	0	0
(92)	Mesopotamian Crow	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
(93)	Crested Lark	32	3	10	4	6	4	9	19	24
(94)	White-Eared Bulbul	0	1	1	2	4	0	0	0	0
(95)	Sand Martin	0	2	0	0	0	27	54	5	2
(96)	Barn Swallow	5	0	0	0	11	29	38	35	12
(97)	Willow Warbler	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
(98)	Common Chiffchaff	7	20	38	48	34	8	18	0	0
(99)	Basra Reed Warbler	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	42	66
(100)	Great Reed Warbler	1	2	0	0	0	0	38	57	42
(101)	Sedge Warbler	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
(102)	Eurasian Reed-Warbler	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
(103)	Graceful Prinia	13	9	11	23	73	41	78	104	61
(104)	Iraq Babbler	5	7	11	25	27	9	58	17	11
(105)	Afghan (Common) Babbler	0	0	0	16	6	18	0	4	0
(106)	Common Starling	0	42	105	252	549	47	2	1	0
(107)	Song Thrush	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
(108)	European Robin	0	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0
(109)	Bluethroat	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
(110)	Rufous-Tailed Scrub-Robin	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
(111)	Common Redstart	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
(112)	Whinchat	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
(113)	Common Stonechat	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0
(114)	Northern Wheatear	0	0	0	0	0	6	8	0	0
(115)	Black-Eared Wheatear	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
(116)	House Sparrow	221	142	158	102	158	75	140	70	58
(117)	Spanish Sparrow	0	0	0	0	0	6	8	0	0
(118)	Dead Sea Sparrow	50	450	54	0	30	10	15	4	0
(119)	Yellow Wagtail	0	2	0	0	0	43	86	1	0
(120)	Citrine Wagtail	1	0	0	1	1	4	4	0	0
(121)	White Wagtail	51	25	134	80	61	74	9	0	0
(122)	Water Pipit	5	26	22	20	16	2	1	0	0
(123)	Corn Bunting	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
(124)	Ortolan Bunting	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
(125)	Reed Bunting	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0