HRC description species (with effect from 1st January 2023)
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.
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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 (eclipse males, juveniles and lone females only) 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 Great Crested Grebe (except Moray Firth records) Red-necked Grebe Black-necked Grebe Honey Buzzard Rough-legged Buzzard Hobby Ring-necked Parakeet Spotted Crake 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 Kumlien's Gull Mediterranean Gull (all immature plumages) Ring-billed Gull Roseate Tern Black Tern Turtle Dove Little Owl Nightjar Wryneck Shorelark Scandinavian Rock Pipit (ssp. littoralis) (except coast from Tarbat Ness to Caithness) Richard’s Pipit Olive-backed Pipit Water Pipit Yellow Wagtail (all races) Great Grey Shrike 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 Willow Tit Golden Oriole Red-backed Shrike Chough Rose-coloured Starling (except adult plumaged birds) 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 Lapland Bunting |
