1999 in birding and ornithology

Worldwide

New species

:See also Bird species new to science described in the 1990s

• The jocotoco antpitta from Ecuador is described.

Taxonomic developments

To be completed

Europe

Britain

Breeding birds

• More than 400 red kites fledged across Britain.

Migrant and wintering birds

• Large numbers of pomarine skuas are seen off the east coast during October and November.

Rare birds

• The third and fourth Iberian chiffchaffs are seen during the spring.
• Britain's third spectacled warbler is seen in Devon in June.
• The first royal tern for Scotland and fifth for Britain is seen in Lothian in August.
• There is an influx of American waders during September.
• A short-billed dowitcher seen first in Aberdeenshire and then in Cleveland is the first record for Britain.
• Britain's first short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus) is found on the Isles of Scilly on 7 October until 11 October
• A black-faced bunting in Northumberland in October is the second for Britain.
• Britain's second mourning dove appears in the Outer Hebrides in November.
• Britain's fifth Balearic woodchat shrike (Lanius senator badius) at Troy Town, St Agnes from 21 to 27 April. (Accepted by the BBRC)

Other events

• The British Birdwatching Fair has Brazil's Atlantic forests as its theme for the year.

Scandinavia

To be completed

North America

• In April, Louisiana State University student David Kulivan sees a pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area on the Louisiana/Mississippi border.

To be completed

Asia

To be completed

References

References

1. Robinson, P. (2003) ''The Birds of the Isles of Scilly''. London: Christopher Helm.
2. Hudson, D.C. (2010) ''Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Review 2009''. Isles of Scilly Bird Group.
3. (31 July 2018). "Celebrating 30 years of Birdfair: 3 decades of global conservation impact".