How to report rare birds
Reporting rare birds
What is deemed to be a rare bird is defined at three geographical levels, each of reducing area: Britain: Scotland and Borders.
British rarities are considered by the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC). A full list of BBRC defined rarities can be found here.
When a species on the BBRC list is entered on BirdTrack a red button will appear alongside "Notifications" on the home page and when clicked will automatically take you to the BBRC website where the relevant form for a description can be found. Alternatively, you can click here to find the rarity form.
Species not considered rarities by BBRC but considered rarities in Scotland are reviewed by the Scottish Birds Records Committee. A full list of those species considered by SBRC can be found by clicking here: SBRC List and a rarity form can be found by clicking here: Scottish Rarity Form.
Species which are considered rarities at the local level, ie in Borders, are considered by a local committee made up of four branch members. The current list of rarities for Borders is as follows (in alphabetical order):
What is deemed to be a rare bird is defined at three geographical levels, each of reducing area: Britain: Scotland and Borders.
British rarities are considered by the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC). A full list of BBRC defined rarities can be found here.
When a species on the BBRC list is entered on BirdTrack a red button will appear alongside "Notifications" on the home page and when clicked will automatically take you to the BBRC website where the relevant form for a description can be found. Alternatively, you can click here to find the rarity form.
Species not considered rarities by BBRC but considered rarities in Scotland are reviewed by the Scottish Birds Records Committee. A full list of those species considered by SBRC can be found by clicking here: SBRC List and a rarity form can be found by clicking here: Scottish Rarity Form.
Species which are considered rarities at the local level, ie in Borders, are considered by a local committee made up of four branch members. The current list of rarities for Borders is as follows (in alphabetical order):
American Golden Plover
American Wigeon Arctic Skua Avocet Balearic Shearwater Barred Warbler Bean Goose (Taiga and Tundra) Bearded Tit Bee-eater Bittern Black Guillemot Black Tern Bluethroat Blyth’s Reed Warbler Buff-breasted Sandpiper Capercaillie Chiffchaff (Siberian-tristis) Chough Common Rosefinch Corn Bunting Corncrake Crane Crested Tit Dotterel Firecrest Glaucous Gull Glossy Ibis Golden Eagle |
Golden Oriole
Great Grey Shrike Great White Egret Green-winged Teal Grey Phalarope Hawfinch Hobby Honey-buzzard Hoopoe Iceland Gull Icterine Warbler Lapland Bunting Leach’s Petrel Little Auk Little Bunting Little Owl Little Tern Long-tailed Skua Marsh Harrier Marsh Tit Marsh Warbler Nightjar Olive-backed Pipit Pallas’s Warbler Pectoral Sandpiper Penduline Tit Pomarine Skua Ptarmigan |
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Red-necked Phalarope Richard’s Pipit Ring-billed Gull Ring-necked Duck Ring-necked Parakeet Rock Pipit (Scandinavian - littoralis) Roseate Tern Rose-coloured Starling Rough-legged Buzzard Sabine’s Gull Shore Lark Smew Spoonbill Wheatear (Greenland-leucorhoa) Spotted Crake Spotted Redshank Surf Scoter Temminck’s Stint Turtle Dove Water Pipit White Stork White-billed Diver White-tailed Eagle Willow Tit Wryneck |