Bird Atlas validation - YOC list

In addition to the records on the YNU list (see separate posting) and national rarities, these species are locally scarce and are likely (in bold expected) to need a description for the York Ornithological Club (list as YOC version at 2006):

White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Brent Goose – all races
Egyptian Goose
Green-winged Teal
Garganey
Red-crested Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
(Greater) Scaup
(Common) Eider
Long-tailed Duck
Common Scoter
Velvet Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Black Grouse
Quail
Golden Pheasant
Red-throated Diver
Black-throated Diver
Great Northern Diver
Red-necked Grebe
Slavonian Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Fulmar
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
European Storm-petrel
Leach’s Storm-petrel
Gannet
Shag
(Eurasian) Bittern
White Stork
Spoonbill
Red Kite
Marsh Harrier
Hen Harrier
Goshawk
Osprey
Merlin
Hobby
Spotted Crake
Corncrake
Common Crane
Stone Curlew
Little Ringed Plover
Dotterel
Knot
Sanderling
Little Stint
Temminck’s Stint
Pectoral Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Jack Snipe
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Spotted Redshank
Pomarine Skua
Arctic Skua
Long-tailed Skua
Great Skua
Grey Phalarope
Mediterranean Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull (^ of Baltic race fuscus)
Glaucous Gull
Iceland Gull (^ including Kumlien’s Gull)
Yellow-legged Gull
Little Gull
Kittiwake
Sabine’s Gull
Little Tern
Black Tern
Sandwich Tern
Arctic Tern
Roseate Tern
Common Guillemot
Black Guillemot
Razorbill
Little Auk
Puffin
Ring-necked Parakeet
Long-eared Owl
(European) Bee-eater
Hoopoe
Wryneck
Wood Lark
Shore Lark
Richard’s Pipit
Water Pipit
Rock Pipit
Yellow Wagtail (scarce races)
Black-bellied Dipper
Nightingale
Bluethroat
Black Redstart
Ring Ouzel
Cetti’s Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Barred Warbler
Pallas’s Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Firecrest
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Bearded Tit
Golden Oriole
Red-backed Shrike
Great Grey Shrike
Chough
Raven
(European) Serin
Twite
Mealy (Common) Redpoll
(Common) Crossbill
Scottish Crossbill
Common Rosefinch
Hawfinch
Lapland Bunting
Snow Bunting
Ortolan Bunting

Apologies for the long list but I thought it may be a useful reference.