HRC description species (with effect from 1st January 2022)
Any record of the following species in the Highland recording area requires a formal description using this form.
Any record of the following species in the Highland recording area requires a formal description using this form.
Bewick’s Swan Taiga Bean Goose Tundra Bean Goose Dark-bellied Brent Goose Egyptian Goose Snow Goose European White-fronted Goose American Wigeon Green-winged Teal Garganey (Females/imm only) Red-crested Pochard Ring-necked Duck Surf Scoter Smew Ruddy Duck White-billed Diver Balearic Shearwater Leach's Petrel (Inner Moray Firth only) Continental Cormorant (ssp sinensis) Bittern Great White Egret White Stork Glossy Ibis Spoonbill Red-necked Grebe Black-necked Grebe Honey Buzzard Rough-legged Buzzard Hobby Ring-necked Parakeet Spotted Crake Common Crane Avocet American Golden Plover Little Ringed Plover Temminck’s Stint Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Grey Phalarope Spotted Redshank |
Long-tailed Skua (juveniles and immatures) Sabine’s Gull (east coast records only) Kumlien's Gull Mediterranean Gull (all immature plumages) Ring-billed Gull Roseate Tern Black Tern (adults and immatures) Turtle Dove Little Owl Nightjar Bee-eater Wryneck Shorelark Scandinavian Rock Pipit (ssp. littoralis) Richard’s Pipit Olive-backed Pipit Water Pipit Yellow Wagtail (all races) Reed Warbler Blyth's Reed Warbler Marsh Warbler Icterine Warbler Barred Warbler Siberian Chiffchaff (ssp. tristis) Pallas’s Warbler Firecrest Bluethroat Red-breasted Flycatcher Bearded Tit Marsh Tit Willow Tit Golden Oriole Red-backed Shrike Chough Rose-coloured Starling (for 2021, records of adults backed by a photograph do not need a description) Common Rosefinch Scottish Crossbill (SBRC species in Skye and the small isles)- All submissions are on hold while a further review on identification criteria by SBRC takes place. Parrot Crossbill (SBRC species in Sutherland, Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh) Little Bunting |