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Canada Goose
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Update 06-2023
23-November-2023
| The following species summaries and/or species account have been updated. Those marked with a [*] indicate the species summary and/or the species account have been update following recent Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC) decisions. Those marked with a [#] indicate the species summary and/or the species account have been update following recent British Birds Records Committee (BBRC) decisions. Cackling Goose # Shelduck Garganey Shoveler Pintail Surf Scoter Quail Water Rail Corncrake Moorhen Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Broad-billed Sandpiper # Little Stint Pectoral Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Little Gull Yellow-legged Gull * Cory’s Shearwater * Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater * Little Egret Osprey Sparrowhawk Marsh Harrier Long-eared Owl Great Spotted Woodpecker Waxwing Coal Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Long-tailed Tit Wood Warbler Yellow-browed Warbler Reed Warbler Grasshopper Warbler Garden Warbler Barred Warbler Treecreeper Swainson’s Thrush # Mistle Thrush Ring Ouzel Spotted Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher Redstart Whinchat Stonechat Dipper Yellow Wagtail Tree Pipit Hawfinch Northern Bullfinch Greenfinch Greenland Redpoll |
| The following species have had images added or replaced. Garganey Pintail Great Crested Grebe Glossy Ibis Stilt Sandpiper Temminck’s Stint Woodcock Jack Snipe Squacco Heron Long-eared Owl Roller Waxwing Arctic Warbler Blackcap St Kilda Wren Treecreeper Swainson’s Thrush Greenland Redpoll Tennessee Warbler |
Update 05-2023
13-August-2023
| The following species summary and/or species account have been updated following recent rarity committee decisions. Those marked with a [*] have been updated following British Birds Rarity Committee (BBRC) decisions, those marked with a [+] indicate that they have been updated following Scottish Birds Rarity Committee (SBRC) decisions, and those marked with a [#] indicate that they have been updated following Outer Hebrides Rarity Committee (OHRC) decisions. Red-breasted Goose * North American Canada Goose * Cackling Goose * Snow Goose # Mandarin Duck # Green-winged Teal # Ring-necked Duck # Lesser Scaup * Harlequin Duck * Surf Scoter # Avocet # American Golden Plover # Little Ringed Plover # Broad-billed Sandpiper * Temminck’ Stint # Buff-breasted Sandpiper # Lesser Yellowlegs + Sabine’s Gull # Mediterranean Gull # Ring-billed Gull # White-billed Diver # Wilson’s Petrel + Black-browed Albatross * Balearic Shearwater # Glossy Ibis # Great White Egret # Snowy Owl * Hobby # Golden Oriole # Blyth’s Reed Warbler # Marsh Warbler # Richard’s Pipit # Olive-backed Pipit # Common Rosefinch # Little Bunting # Rustic Bunting * | |
| The following species has been moved from Category E to the Systematic List Red-breasted Goose | |
| The following species now has added additional information as per all national rarities Red-breasted Goose |
Update 04-2023
31-July-2023
| Following consultations with Chris McInerny (Secretary SBRC) and Keith Naylor (Historical Records Consultant BOURC), the following records, thought to be accepted, are now known to be unsubstantiated. Those species marked [*] indicate that the species summary and/or species account has been modified to accommodate this update. Buff-breasted Sandpiper * 2004 Butt of Lewis, juvenile, 6th September. (OH Bird Report 2003 & 2004: 43) 2004 Ness, Lewis, one, 12th September. (OH Bird Report 2003 & 2004: 43) Gyr Falcon 1855 Benbecula, shot, 21st October. (BirdGuides British and Irish Records Archive) Rosy Starling * 1975 Reef, Lewis, one 12th August. (Scottish Birds Vol.9 No.4: 231) 1975 Manish, Harris, one, 15th August. (Scottish Birds Vol.9 No.4: 231) Richard’s Pipit * 1979 Rubha Ardvule, South Uist, one, 22nd April. (Cunningham: 149-150) Parrot Crossbill * 1962 Uig, Lewis, four, 11th October. (SBRC species analysis) 1962 North Rona, up to two on 9th – 11th October. (Murray, The birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir Supplement to Scottish Birds Vol 43(1): 34) |
| The following Snowy Owl records were incorrectly assigned to Gyr Falcon and have therefore been removed 2005 Ness, Lewis, male, 21st December, photo; presumed same as other sites on Lewis, last seen 13th November (British Birds 100: 56–57). (British Birds 100: 725) 2006 Baleshare, North Uist, intermittently 11th – 23rd January; same, Balranald, North Uist, 21st April, photo; same, Corran Aird a’Mhorain, North Uist, 7th July to November, photo. (British Birds 100: 725) Bru, Lewis, immature male, intermittently from 9th November to 11th December (British Birds 100: plate 59). (British Birds 100: 725) 2014 Grenitote, North Uist, male, 10th – 12th May, photo, presumed same as North Uist, Outer Hebrides 2013 (British Birds 107: 610). |
Red-breasted Goose
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Update 03-2023
20-June-2023
| The following species summaries have been updated. Those marked with a [#] indicate the species summary and/or the species account have been update following recent British Birds Records Committee (BBRC) decisions. Those marked with a [*] indicate the species summary and/or the species account have been update following recent Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC) decisions. Those marked with a [+] indicate the species summary and/or the species account have been update following recent Outer Hebrides Records Committee (OHRC) decisions. North American Canada Goose# Whooper Swan Shoveler Surf Scoter Pallid Swift# Little Stint White-rumped Sandpiper* Wilson’s Phalarope# Spotted Sandpiper# Cory’s Shearwater* Great Shearwater+ Honey-buzzard White-tailed Eagle Gyrfalcon# Great Tit Dusky Warbler* Melodious Warbler* Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler# Grasshopper Warbler Garden Warbler Eastern Subalpine Warbler# Swainson’s Thrush# Mistle Thrush Spotted Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher Dipper Dunnock Yellow Wagtail British Yellow Wagtail Buff-bellied Pipit# Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll# Ortolan Bunting* |
| The following species has been added to Species not included in the systematic list Green Woodpecker |
| The following species has had images added or replaced European White-fronted Geese Mandarin Duck Surf Scoter Curlew Sandpiper Wilson’s Phalarope Night Heron White-billed diver Melodious Warbler Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler Dipper Dunnock Common Rosefinch |
| The following species has had a video file added White-billed Diver |
Update 02-2023
16-June-2023
| The following 30 species, all locally scarce, now have added additional information as per all national, Scottish, and local rarities. This includes (but not limited to) a species account, distribution, historical records with references, and all known sightings (proven, not proven, and unsubstantiated) with dates and references. Those species marked [*] indicates that their summary has be modified to accommodate this update. Those marked [#] indicates that they were formally national, Scottish, or local rarities Dark-bellied Brent Goose* Red-crested Pochard Pochard* Ptarmigan Quail* Spotted Crake* Red-necked Grebe* Great Crested Grebe Pectoral Sandpiper* # Green Sandpiper* Wood Sandpiper* Little Gull* Little Egret* # Osprey* Marsh Harrier* Hoopoe* Great-Spotted Woodpecker* Wood Warbler* Yellow-browed Warbler* # Reed Warbler* Barred Warbler* # Rose-coloured Starling* # Ring Ouzel* Red-breasted Flycatcher* # Black Redstart* Redstart* Tree Pipit* Scandinavian Rock Pipit Hawfinch* Bullfinch* | |
| The following species have had images added or replaced Pectoral Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Little Gull Osprey Little Egret Wood Warbler Yellow-browed Warbler Rose-coloured Starling Ring Ouzel Red-breasted Flycatcher Black Redstart Scandinavian Rock Pipit Hawfinch |