Records considered by LBRC from 1st January 2025
Bewick’s Swan
Tundra Bean Goose
Taiga Bean Goose
Snow Goose
Egyptian 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
Glossy Ibis
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
White-billed Diver
Turtle Dove
Nightjar
Hoopoe
Wryneck
Shore Lark
Richard’s Pipit
Water Pipit
Olive-backed Pipit
Yellow Wagtail (except British race flavissima)
Bluethroat
Blyth’s Reed Warbler
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
Golden Oriole
Red-backed Shrike
Great Grey Shrike
Hooded Crow
Rose-coloured Starling
Common Rosefinch
Hawfinch
Corn Bunting
Little Bunting
Subspecies
Kumlien’s Gull (Larus glaucoides kumlieni)
Siberian Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita tristis)
The Lothian Bird Records Committee currently comprises Colin Davison, Keith Gillon, Jarrod Hadfield (non-voting secretary), Mark Holling, Norman Milligan and Mark Wilkinson.
The Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC) will consider Scottish rarities and the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) will consider national rarities. The preferred method of description submission is via email to the Lothian Bird Recorder copying the SBRC Secretary or BBRC Secretary, respectively. 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.
