French Translation
Only birds likely to be seen at the Basin are listed here.
| English Name | French Name | English Name | French Name | |
| Red-throated diver | Plongeon catmarin | Turnstone | Tournepierre à collier | |
| Little grebe | Grèbe castagneux | Black headed gull | Mouette rieuse | |
| Great crested grebe | Grèbe huppé | Common gull | Goéland cendré | |
| Cormorant | Grand cormoran | Lesser black-backed gull | Goéland brun | |
| Grey heron | Héron cendré | Herring gull | Goéland argenté | |
| Mute swan | Cygne tuberculé | Greater black-backed gull | Goéland marin | |
| Whooper swan | Cygne chanteur | Sandwich tern | Sterne caugek | |
| Pink footed goose | Oie à bec court | Common tern | Sterne peirregarin | |
| Greylag goose | Oie cendrée | Arctic tern | Sterne arctique | |
| Barnacle goose | Bernache nonnette | Little tern | Sterne naine | |
| Brent goose | Bernache cravant | Guillemot | Guillemot de troïl | |
| Shelduck | Tadorne de belon | Stock dove | Pigeon colombin | |
| Wigeon | Canard siffleur | Woodpigeon | Pigeon ramier | |
| Teal | Sarcelle d'hiver | Collared dove | Tourterelle turque | |
| Mallard | Canard colvert | Swift | Martinet noir | |
| Pintail | Canard pilet | Kingfisher | Martin-pêcheur d'Europe | |
| Shoveler | Canard souchet | Skylark | Alouette des champs | |
| Pochard | Canard milouin | Sand martin | Hirondelle de rivage | |
| Tufted duck | Fuligule morillon | Swallow | Hirondelle rustique | |
| Scaup | Fuligule milouinan | House martin | Hirondelle de fênetre | |
| Eider | Eider à duvet | Meadow pipit | Pipit farlouse | |
| Goldeneye | Garrot à oeil d'or | Grey wagtail | Bergeronnette des ruisseaux | |
| Red breasted merganser | Harle huppé | Pied wagtail | Bergeronnette grise | |
| Goosander | Harle bievre | Wren | Troglodyte mignon | |
| Marsh harrier | Busard des reseaux | Dunnock | Accenteur mouchet | |
| Hen harrier | Busard Saint-Martin | Robin | Rougegorge familier | |
| Sparrowhawk | Epervier d'Europe | Whinchat | Tarier des prés | |
| Buzzard | Buse variable | Stonechat | Tarier pâtre | |
| Osprey | Balbuzard pêcheur | Wheatear | Traquet motteaux | |
| Kestrel | Falcon Crécerelle | Blackbird | Merle nior | |
| Peregrine falcon | Faucon pélerin | Fieldfare | Grive litorne | |
| Grey partridge | Perdix gris | Song thrush | Grive musicienne | |
| Pheasant | Faissan de Colchide | Redwing | Grive mauvis | |
| Water rail | Râle d'eau | Mistle thrush | Grive draine | |
| Moorhen | Gallinule poule-d'eau | Sedge warbler | Phragmite de joncs | |
| Coot | Foulque Macroule | Whitethroat | Fauvette grisette | |
| Oystercatcher | Huitrîer Pie | Willow warbler | Pouillot fitis | |
| Ringed Plover | Grand gravelot | Goldcrest | Roitelet huppé | |
| Golden Plover | Pluvier doré | Coal tit | Mésange noire | |
| Grey Plover | Pluvier argenté | Blue tit | Mésange Bleue | |
| Lapwing | Vanneau huppé | Great tit | Mésange Charbonnière | |
| Knot | Béasseau maubèche | Jackdaw | Choucas des tours | |
| Dunlin | Bécasseau variable | Rook | Corbeau freux | |
| Ruff | Combattant varié | Carrion crow | Corneille Noire | |
| Jack Snipe | Bécassine sourde | Starling | Etourneau sansonnet | |
| Snipe | Bécassine des marais | House sparrow | Moineau domestique | |
| Woodcock | Bécasse des bois | Tree sparrow | Moineau friquet | |
| Black-tailed godwit | Barge à queue noire | Chaffinch | Pinson des arbres | |
| Bar-tailed godwit | Barge rousse | Brambling | Pinson du Nord | |
| Whimbrel | Courlis courlieu | Greenfinch | Verdier d'Europe | |
| Curlew | Courlis cendré | Goldfinch | Chardonneret élégant | |
| Redshank | Chevalier gambette | Yellowhammer | Bruant jaune | |
| Greenshank | Chevalier aboyeur | Reed bunting | Bruant des roseaux | |
| Common sandpiper | Chevalier guignette |