From: Avian influenza virus monitoring in wintering waterbirds in Iran, 2003-2007
Family | Bird name | Scientific name | 2003 & 2004 | 2005 | 2007 | Total Species No. | Species Pos. No. | No. Bird/Family | Pos./Family |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Podicipedidae | Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | 7 | - | - | 7 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
 | Great-crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | 3 | 1 | - | 4 | 0 |  |  |
 | Little Grebe | Podiceps ruficollis | 8 | - | - | 8 | 0 |  |  |
Phalacrocoracidae | Lesser Cormorant | Phalacrocorax pygmaeus | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
 | Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | 11 | - | 1 | 12 | 0 |  |  |
Ardeidae | Great White Egret | Egretta alba | 3 | 2 | - | 5 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
 | Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | 6 | 4 | - | 10 | 0 |  |  |
 | Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | 3 | 4 | - | 7 | 0 |  |  |
Phoenicopteridae | Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | 8 | 4 | - | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
Anatidae | Gadwall | Anas strepera | 10 | 1 | 15 | 26 | 0 | 745 | 31 |
 | Garganey | Anas querquedula | 3 | - | - | 3 | 1 |  |  |
 | Greylag Goose | Anser anser | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 |  |  |
 | Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | 78 | 34 | 68 | 180 | 15 |  |  |
 | Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | 17 | 1 | 18 | 36 | 1 |  |  |
 | Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 1 |  |  |
 | Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 |  |  |
 | Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | 1 | 5 | - | 6 | 0 |  |  |
 | Greater Scuap | Aythya marila | - | 1 | - | 1 | 0 |  |  |
 | Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | 10 | - | 1 | 11 | 0 |  |  |
 | Northern Shoveler | Anas clypeata | 10 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 2 |  |  |
 | Common Teal | Anas crecca | 79 | 36 | 243 | 358 | 9 |  |  |
 | Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |  |  |
 | White-headed Duck | Oxyura leucocephala | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 |  |  |
 | Lesser White-fronted Goose | Anser erythropus | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 |  |  |
 | Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 |  |  |
 | Eurasian Wigeon | Anas penelope | 4 | 4 | 69 | 77 | 0 |  |  |
Rallidae | Common Coot | Fulica atra | 117 | 39 | 77 | 233 | 4 | 234 | 4 |
 | Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 |  |  |
Recurvirostridae | Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | 4 | - | - | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
 | Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 |  |  |
Charadriidae | Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | 10 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
 | White-tailed Lapwing | Vanellus leucurus | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 |  |  |
Scolopacidae | Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | 3 | 2 | - | 5 | 0 | 51 | 0 |
 | Dunlin | Calidris alpina | 5 | - | - | 5 | 0 |  |  |
 | Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | 0 |  |  |
 | Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | 13 | - | - | 13 | 0 |  |  |
 | Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | 12 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 |  |  |
 | Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | - | 5 | - | 5 | 0 |  |  |
 | Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | - | 2 | - | 2 | 0 |  |  |
 | Ruff | Philomachus pugnax | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 0 |  |  |
Laridae | Black-headed Gull | Larus ridibundus | 16 | 1 | - | 17 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
 | Little Gull | Larus minutus | 3 | - | - | 3 | 0 |  |  |
 | Slender-billed Gull | Larus genei | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 |  |  |
 | Yellow-legged Gull | Larus cachinnans | 3 | - | - | 3 | 0 |  |  |
Sternidae | Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybridus | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
 |  |  | 472 | 159 | 515 | 1146 | 35 | 1146 | 35 |