Scottish List - species and subspecies

Category D

D Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
D Falcated Duck Anas falcata
D Baikal Teal Anas formosa
D Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
D Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
D Saker Falcon Falco cherrug
D Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
D Daurian Starling Sturnus sturninus
D Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila
D Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps
D Blue Grosbeak Guiraca caerulea
D Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea

Category A 479
Category B 9
Category C 6
Total 494
Category D 12

References

Baxter E V & Rintoul L J 1928 The Geographical Distribution and Status of Birds in Scotland. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.
Baxter E V & Rintoul L J 1953. The Birds of Scotland. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.
BOU 1971. The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland.
BOU 1992. Checklist of Birds of Britain and Ireland. 6th edition.
British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee. 1991-1999. Fifteenth - Twenty-seventh Reports Ibis Vols 133-143.
Clements James F 2000. Birds of the World: a Checklist 5th edition. Pica Press, Robertsbridge.
Evans Lee G R 1994. Rare Birds in Britain 1800-1990. LGRE Publications, Amersham.
Mead C 2000. The State of the Nation's Birds. Whittet Books, Stowmarket.
Paton E R & Pike O G 1929. The Birds of Ayrshire. Witherby, London.
SBRC per Forrester R W 1994. Scottish List Scottish Birds 17:146-159.
SBRC per Forrester R W 1996. Amendments to the Scottish List Scottish Birds 18:129-131.
SBRC per Gordon P R & Clugston D 1996. Records of species recorded in Scotland on 5 or fewer occasions Scottish Birds 18:132-143.
SBRC per Forrester R W 1998. Amendments to the Scottish List Scottish Birds 19:259-261.
SBRC per Forrester R W 2000. Amendments to the Scottish List Scottish Birds 21:1-5.
Thom V M 1986. Birds in Scotland. Poyser, Calton.
Witherby H F et al 1938. The Handbook of British Birds. Witherby, London.

The following journals have been most useful sources of reference: Birding Scotland, Birding World, British Birds, Scottish Birds and the annual Scottish Bird Reports.

Appendix

Species under consideration, but not yet accepted include:
Yellow-legged Gull There are now approaching 20 accepted records of michahellis in Scotland, but BOURC still treats this as a subspecies of Herring Gull.
Caspian Gull There are 3 Scottish records under consideration. BOURC still treat this as a subspecies (cachinnans) of Herring Gull.
Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus North Ronaldsay, Orkney 22 May 2000
Canvasback Aythya valisineria Loch of Rummie, Sanday, Orkney 21-23 June 2000
Swinhoe's Petrel Oceanodroma monorhis Cove, Aberdeenshire 5 August 2000 and from Larne-Stranraer ferry (off Galloway) September 2000
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus Uisaed Point, Argyll 6 July 2000
Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus North Uist, Outer Hebrides 23-31 October 2000
Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach South Uist, Outer Hebrides 3-4 November 2000

Subspecies claimed in Scotland, but not yet accepted for Britain by BOURC include:
Little Shearwater elegans Musselburgh Lagoons 9 December 1990 (specimen found above tide line)
Canada Goose hutchinsii, minima and parvipes - many claimed records, but none yet accepted
Solitary Sandpiper solitaria Fair Isle 1992 (photographic evidence points to this race)
Common Gull brachyrhynchus Lerwick, Shetland 25 January 1994 - 19 March 1994
Atlantic Puffin naumanni Sule Skerry (date?)
Greater Short-toed Lark brachydactyla Flannan Isles 1904 (specimen at NMS) longipennis Fair Isle 1907 (specimen at NMS) - BOU say 'race undetermined, 2 types'.
Sky Lark cinerea synonym for dulcivox Flannan Is 1906 (specimen at NMS)
Eurasian Reed Warbler fuscus Fair Isle 15-16 June 2000, Fife Ness 2000 (Caspian Reed Warbler)
Lesser Whitethroat minula or margelanica Fair Isle 25-27 June 1999 (Desert Lesser Whitethroat)
Common Whitethroat icterops Fife Ness 2000
Garden Warbler woodwardi Isle of May 15 May 1998
Jackdaw soemmerringii Veensgarth, Shetland 27 January 1998 - 17 March 1998, with 2 on 28 January and 8 February. BOURC have said in their 25^th Report that owing to `plumage characters of Jackdaws (being) so variable (the race) can be accepted as new to Britain only if a breeding bird or pullus ringed within its normal breeding range is recovered in Britain and shows the characters of the race.'

Subspecies accepted for Britain by BOURC with Scottish records under consideration by SBRC/BBRC include:
Common Redstart samamisicus Grutness, Shetland 24-26 September 2000

Subspecies which have probably occurred in Scotland, but for which SBRC can find no acceptable records, include:
Common Guillemot hyperborea (tideline specimens for Britain Category D)
Coal Tit hibernicus
Eurasian Jay hibernicus and glandarius
Twite flavirostris

Subspecies recorded in Scotland but which we have been unable to fully substantiate:
Northern Goshawk atricapillus The only Scottish record is Schiehallion 1869, origin doubtful, meanwhile placed in Category E

Address for correspondence: Ronald W Forrester, Secretary, SBRC, The Gables, Eastlands Road, Rothesay, Isle of Bute PA20 9JZ