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If you see a bird that is considered to be a rarity (please refer to the copy of the BOU 2006 checklist of species that shows if each species is a national or Welsh rarity) complete the rare birds form as completely as you can. Please describe the bird as you saw it, giving details of the colours of the different parts of the body. If you take any digital photos, please label them with date, species, place and your name.

The table, below, shows the birds that are local rarities in North-East Wales. Please accompany all records of these species with a description and ideally at least one photograph and send them to the Recorder

Greater White-fronted Goose European Honey-buzzard Atlantic Puffin
Lesser White-fronted Goose Eurasian Marsh Harrier European Turtle Dove
Barnacle Goose Pied Avocet Hoopoe
Garganey Eurasian Dotterel Eurasian Wryneck
Common Eider Wood Sandpiper Water Pipit
Long-tailed Duck Grey Phalarope Bohemian Waxwing
Smew Pomarine Skua Cetti's Warbler
Common Quail Long-tailed Skua Yellow-browed Warbler
Red-necked Grebe Sabine's Gull Firecrest
Slavonian Grebe Ring-billed Gull Eurasian Golden Oriole
Black-necked Grebe Yellow-legged Gull Great Grey Shrike
Sooty Shearwater Iceland Gull Red-billed Chough
Balearic Shearwater Glaucous Gull Hooded Crow
Great Bittern Roseate Tern Hawfinch
Eurasian Spoonbill Black Guillemot Lapland Longspur
Yellow Wagtail (blue-headed)


Please submit records of rarities to me as soon after the observation as is possible.

For a copy of the rarities form, please go to the Downloads page.

If you have not completed a rarities form before, you may wish to see an example of what a successful form is like. Susan Morris has kindly agreed to let us make available a copy of the form she submitted to the Welsh Rarities Panel for a record that was accepted:

Short-toed Lark

If you happen to see a national rarity - you can identify these from the species list on the Downloads page as they are printed on a yellow background - please submit your description to the British Birds Rarities Committee:

BBRC online submission form

For information about the BBRC, please see their website:

BBRC
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