Only birds likely to be seen at the Basin are listed here.
| English Name | N.American Name | English Name | N.American Name | |
| Red-throated diver | Red-throated loon | Turnstone | Ruddy Turnstone | |
| Little grebe | Black headed gull | |||
| Great crested grebe | Common gull | Mew Gull | ||
| Cormorant | Great cormorant | Lesser black-backed gull | ||
| Grey heron | Herring gull | |||
| Mute swan | Greater black-backed gull | |||
| Whooper swan | Sandwich tern | |||
| Pink footed goose | Common tern | |||
| Greylag goose | Arctic tern | |||
| Barnacle goose | Little tern | Least Tern | ||
| Brent goose | Brant | Guillemot | Common Murre | |
| Shelduck | Common shelduck | Stock dove | ||
| Wigeon | European wigeon | Woodpigeon | ||
| Teal | Green winged teal | Collared dove | Eurasian collared dove | |
| Mallard | Swift | |||
| Pintail | Northern pintail | Kingfisher | ||
| Shoveler | Northern shoveller | Skylark | Eurasian skylark | |
| Pochard | Common pochard | Sand martin | Bank Swallow | |
| Tufted duck | Swallow | Barn Swallow | ||
| Scaup | Greater Scaup | House martin | ||
| Eider | Common eider | Meadow pipit | ||
| Goldeneye | Common goldeneye | Grey wagtail | ||
| Red breasted merganser | Pied wagtail | |||
| Goosander | Common merganser | Wren | Winter Wren | |
| Marsh harrier | Dunnock | |||
| Hen harrier | Northern Harrier | Robin | European robin | |
| Sparrowhawk | Whinchat | |||
| Buzzard | Common buzzard | Stonechat | ||
| Osprey | Wheatear | |||
| Kestrel | Eurasian kestrel | Blackbird | Eurasian blackbird | |
| Peregrine falcon | Fieldfare | |||
| Grey partridge | Gray Partridge | Song thrush | ||
| Pheasant | Ring-necked Pheasant | Redwing | ||
| Water rail | Mistle thrush | |||
| Moorhen | Common Gallinule | Sedge warbler | ||
| Coot | Whitethroat | |||
| Oystercatcher | Willow warbler | |||
| Ringed Plover | Common ringed plover | Goldcrest | ||
| Golden Plover | Greater golden plover | Coal tit | ||
| Grey Plover | Black-bellied plover | Blue tit | ||
| Lapwing | Northern lapwing | Great tit | ||
| Knot | Red knot | Jackdaw | Eurasian jackdaw | |
| Dunlin | Rook | |||
| Ruff | Carrion crow | |||
| Jack Snipe | Starling | European starling | ||
| Snipe | Common snipe | House sparrow | ||
| Woodcock | Eurasian woodcock | Tree sparrow | Eurasian tree sparrow | |
| Black-tailed godwit | Chaffinch | Common chaffinch | ||
| Bar-tailed godwit | Brambling | |||
| Whimbrel | Greenfinch | |||
| Curlew | Eurasian curlew | Goldfinch | ||
| Redshank | Yellowhammer | |||
| Greenshank | Common greenshank | Reed bunting | Common reed bunting | |
| Common sandpiper |