Seen a Rare Bird ?

Reporting Rarer Birds

BTO BirdTrack users

Should you report a bird occurring on the list below, you'll be automatically presented with a rare bird sighting record form for you to complete. Once completed that's it, it's submitted & no other submission, as noted here, will be required.

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Alternatively

For the whole of Scotland, the Scottish Bird Records Committee (SBRC) exists.

See the Scottish Ornithologists Club (SOC) website link * here * for more information on what the SBRC is all about. You'll find other important and relevant links on that page.

There you'll find out that there's a committee for each determined region, including the Dumfries & Galloway Bird Records Committee (DGBRC).

Whichever is relevant to what you've seen will depend upon whether your bird is listed for the;

1 - DGBRC to assess or,

2 - the SBRC

(see Alphabetical List below).

What you WILL need for both, is the;

Click or tap on image to go to the form download page

The completion of the form should be read in conjunction with the notes given on the SOC's website, as linked above.

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Dumfries & Galloway Bird Records Committee

List of species which D&G local recording panel will consider.

Below is the current (2022) DGBRC list, with species that the SBRC will adjudicate upon shown in BOLD type.

Anything rarer than the following species listed (or noted already for their assessment) is considered by the British Bird Rarities Committee (BBRC);

IS YOUR BIRD LISTED BELOW?

Alphabetical List

Alpine Swift

American Lesser Golden Plover

American Wigeon

Arctic Redpoll (Coues’s exilipes)

Arctic Warbler

Avocet

Balearic Shearwater

Barred Warbler

Bean Goose

Bearded tit

Bee-eater

Black Brant

Black Kite

Black-necked Grebe

Black-winged Stilt

Bluethroat

Blyth’s Reed Warbler

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Capercaillie

Caspian Gull

Cattle Egret

Cetti’s Warbler

Chough

Cirl Bunting

Citrine Wagtail

Common Rosefinch

Continental Black-tailed Godwit

Corn Bunting

Corncrake

Cory’s Shearwater

Crane

Dartford Warbler

Dusky Warbler

Eastern Subalpine Warbler (BBRC)

Egyptian Goose (local description from Jan 2017)

Ferruginous Duck

Firecrest

Franz Josef Land Little Auk

Glossy Ibis (local description from Jan 2017)

Golden Oriole

Great Shearwater

Greenish Warbler

Green-winged Teal

Grey Phalarope

Hawfinch

Hobby

Honey Buzzard

Hoopoe

Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll

Iceland Gull (kumlieni)

Icterine Warbler

Kentish Plover

Lapland Bunting

Lesser Scaup

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Lesser Yellowlegs

Little Auk

Little Bunting

Little Ringed Plover

Long-tailed Skua (non-adults)

Marsh tit

Marsh Warbler

Mealy Redpoll (flammea)

Melodious Warbler

Melodious Warbler

Montagu’s Harrier

Night Heron

Nightingale

Olive-backed Pipit

Ortolan Bunting

Pallas’s Warbler

Parrot Crossbill

Pectoral Sandpiper

Ptarmigan

Purple Heron

Radde’s Warbler

Red-backed Shrike

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Red-flanked Bluetail

Red-footed Falcon

Red-necked Grebe

Red-necked Phalarope

Red-rumped Swallow

Red-throated Pipit (BBRC from 2015)

Richard’s Pipit

Ringed-billed Gull

Ringed-necked Duck

Roseate Tern

Rose-coloured Starling

Rough-legged Buzzard

Sabine’s Gull

Scottish Crossbill

Serin

Shore Lark

Short-toed Lark

Sooty Shearwater

Spotted Crake

Stone Curlew

Subalpine Warbler

Surf Scoter

Tawny Pipit (BBRC from 2015)

Temminck’s Stint

Water Pipit

White-billed Diver

White-fronted Goose (albifrons)

White-rumped Sandpiper

White-tailed Eagle

White-winged Black Tern

Wilson’s Petrel

Wood Sandpiper

Woodchat Shrike

Woodlark

Wryneck

Yellow Wagtail (all races)

Yellow-legged Gull

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Notes

2016 : remove Black-throated Diver (winter plumage) and Yellow-browed Warbler, Black Tern from local panel.

2020 : 1st Jan : Blyth's Reed Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Olive-backed Pipit, Little Bunting removed from SBRC list so now assessed by local panel.

2021 : remove Great White Egret from local panel list.

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Need help?

Should you have any queries etc on filling the form in, or need more advice, please get in touch with the joint County Bird Recorders for D&G, 📧 Gavin & Alyn Chambers.