Rare Breeding BirdsIf you should be lucky enough to come across a rare breeding bird, please submit the record via our Local Recorder to the Rare Breeding Bird Panel. The founding objective of the Panel was ‘to collect in one place all information on rare breeding birds in the UK so that changes in status – both increases and decreases – can be monitored and so that essential information is not lost (as has happened in the past) through the deaths of individuals keeping such records ‘secret’.
The data are maintained in a secure archive and are available for a range of conservation uses. They are also used by government as a component of Official Statistics related to state of environment reporting; in national reporting to multilateral environmental agreements as part of UK obligations under such international treaties; and for assessment of the status of protected areas. The resulting data provide critical information, not only about the changing status of the birds themselves, but also about their key sites, many of which have formal types of protected-area designation. Visit the Rare Breeding Bird Panel species list. SCOTTISH AND CLYDE LOCAL RECORD COMMITTEESIf you should be so lucky as to find a rare bird, please submit the record in the first instance using the appropriate downloadable file below (not recommended on a mobile phone) to our Local Recorder for the Clyde at clyderecorder@the-soc.org.uk There are three categories of rarities:
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Black Redstart ©️ Ian Fulton
Waxwing © Andrew Russell
Curlew © David Palmar
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SBRC and CBRP species listed below will only be accepted if a satisfactory written description or photograph is submitted. Under certain circumstances a written description may be required for a species not on this list, if requested by at least one member of the Panel.
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Black Brant
Taiga Bean Goose (out of range) Tundra Bean Goose European White-fronted Goose Bewick's Swan Egyptian Goose American Wigeon Green-winged Teal Red-crested Pochard Ring-necked Duck Surf Scoter (female only) Nightjar Alpine Swift Turtle Dove Crane Black-necked Grebe (winter) Stone-curlew Black-winged Stilt American Golden Plover Black-tailed Godwit (Continental race) Temminck's Stint White-rumped Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Grey Phalarope Lesser Yellowlegs Sabine's Gull Ring-billed Gull Iceland Gull - race L g kumlieni known as ‘Kumlien’s Gull’ Caspian Gull Yellow-legged Gull Roseate Tern White-winged Black Tern Pomarine Skua Long-tailed Skua Black-throated Diver (winter) |
White-billed Diver
Wilson's Petrel Storm Petrel Leach's Petrel Cory's Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater Balearic Shearwater White Stork Glossy Ibis Spoonbill Night-heron Cattle Egret Purple Heron Great White Egret Little Egret Honey-buzzard Goshawk (out with range) Montagu's Harrier Red Kite Black Kite Rough-legged Buzzard Little Owl Bee-eater Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Red-footed Falcon Hobby Woodchat Shrike Golden Oriole Chough Marsh Tit Willow Tit Bearded Tit Woodlark Short-toed Lark Red-rumped Swallow Cetti's Warbler Chiffchaff (except P c collybita) |
Dusky Warbler
Radde's Warbler Pallas's Warbler Yellow-browed Warbler Arctic Warbler Greenish Warbler Blyth's Reed Warbler Reed Warbler Marsh Warbler Melodious Warbler Icterine Warbler Barred Warbler Dartford Warbler Firecrest Rose-coloured Starling Bluethroat Nightingale Red-flanked Bluetail Red-breasted Flycatcher Yellow Wagtail (all forms except subspecies flavissima) Citrine Wagtail Richard's Pipit Olive-backed Pipit Water Pipit Rock Pipit (Scandinavian) Hawfinch Bullfinch (Northern race) Common Rosefinch Common Redpoll Parrot Crossbill Scottish Crossbill Serin Lapland Bunting Corn Bunting Ortolan Bunting Cirl Bunting Little Bunting |
updated May 2023