Records of rarities

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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