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Rare Bird
​Reporting

Little Ringed Plover © Ian Fulton

Rare Breeding Birds

If 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 COMMITTEES


If 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:
  • The Clyde Bird Records Panel (CBRP) assesses records of slightly less rare Scottish species (listed below), together with all other local rarities.  CBRP consists of five voting members and a non-voting secretary.    
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  • The Scottish Birds Records Committee assesses records of birds rare in a Scottish context, but not rare enough in Britain to be assessed by BBRC. These species are shown in bold type below.  
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  • The British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) assesses British rarities (those appearing on the BBRC List). 
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Black Redstart ©️ Ian Fulton
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Waxwing © Andrew Russell
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Curlew © David Palmar
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.
  
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
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