Records of rarities

If you see a bird that is considered to be a rarity (please refer to the copy of the BOU 2009 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 as of 1 January 2010. Please accompany all records of these species with a description and ideally at least one photograph and send them to the Recorder

Brent Goose (dark breasted)	Black-necked Grebe	Black Guillemot
Garganey	Honey Buzzard	Little Auk
Eider	Avocet	Puffin
Long-tailed Duck	Dotterel	Turtle Dove
Velvet Scoter	Purple Sandpiper	Ring-necked Parakeet
Smew	Wood Sandpiper	Long-eared Owl
Lady Amherst's Pheasant	Long-tailed Skua	Wryneck
Black-throated Diver	Great Skua	Chough
Great Northern Diver	Sabine's Gull	Hooded Crow
Sooty Shearwater	Little Gull	Firecrest
Balearic Shearwater	Ring-billed Gull	Cetti's Warbler
Storm Petrel	Yellow-legged Gull	Yellow-browed Warbler
Shag	Iceland Gull	Yellow Wagtail (Blue-headed)
Bittern	Glaucous Gull	Hawfinch
Spoonbill	Black Tern	Lapland Bunting
Red-necked Grebe	Roseate Tern
Slavonian Grebe	Razorbill

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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