Records considered by LBRC from 1st January 2025
Written details should be submitted for the following species/subspecies:
Bewick’s Swan
Tundra Bean Goose
Taiga Bean Goose
Snow Goose
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Garganey (not adult males or pairs)
Ring-necked Duck
Surf Scoter (not adult males)
Smew
Ruddy Duck
Black-necked Grebe
Balearic Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Storm Petrel
Leach’s Petrel
Bittern
Great White Egret
White Stork
Spoonbill
Honey-buzzard
Goshawk
Rough-legged Buzzard
Golden Eagle
Hobby
Spotted Crake
Corncrake
Crane
Avocet
Dotterel
American Golden Plover
Temminck’s Stint
Pectoral Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Grey Phalarope
Long-tailed Skua (juveniles only)
Sabine’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Turtle Dove
Nightjar
Hoopoe
Wryneck
Shore Lark
Richard’s Pipit
Water Pipit
Yellow Wagtail (except British race flavissima)
Bluethroat
Blyth’s Reed Warbler
Eurasian Reed Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Barred Warbler
Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
Wood Warbler (non-singing birds only)
Firecrest
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Bearded Tit
Willow Tit
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Red-backed Shrike
Great Grey Shrike
Hooded Crow
Rose-coloured Starling
Olive-backed Pipit
Common Redpoll
Common Rosefinch
Hawfinch
Corn Bunting
Little Bunting
Subspecies
Kumlien’s Gull (Larus glaucoides kumlieni)
Siberian Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita tristis)
The Lothian Bird Records Committee, comprising Colin Davison, Keith Gillon, Norman Milligan, Mark Holling and Mark Wilkinson, will consider local rarities. The Scottish Birds Records Committee will consider Scottish rarities and the British Birds Rarities Committee will consider national rarities. Occasionally, the Recorder may request notes for species or sub-species not appearing on this list, when they occur outside their normal range or on unusual dates.
All rarity descriptions should be sent direct to Jarrod Hadfield (copying Stephen Welch).
Scottish rarities and British rarities should also be sent to Stephen Welch, who will forward them to SBRC or BBRC.
