NORTHUMBERLAND
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TYNESIDE BIRD CLUB
Registered Charity No. 517641
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The County Records Committee (CRC) meets about five times per year and assesses records of rare and scarce species seen in the county which have been supported by written descriptions (together with any photographs and sound recordings available). They also review all other bird records for inclusion in the annual county bird report Birds in Northumbria, maintain the entries in the County Bird List and occasionally discuss taxonomic and nomenclature decisions made at national level by the BOURC. Members of the CRC (with the exception of the chairman) serve for a period of four years and retire by strict rotation. The CRC adheres to an agreed set of Policy & Procedures in an attempt to give some uniformity and fairness to record assessment for all observers sightings. A copy of this document is available here
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Membership of the County Records Committee 2010
Tim Dean -
Graeme Bowman
Mike Carr
Alan Jack
David Steel
REPORTS ON PROGRESS OF RARE & SCARCE SPECIES
The CRC recently held its latest meeting to discuss both 2009 and 2010 records and the following reports have been updated to 10th April 2010
The report for 2009 records (in PDF format) is available at this link showing the current position for records which either a full description or brief notes are required.
The report for 2010 records (in PDF format) is available at this link showing the current position for records which either a full description or brief notes are required.
Anyone requiring a Rare Bird Report form can download/print a copy from the Resources & Downloads page
THE COUNTY RECORDS COMMITTEE
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Species for which descriptive notes are required The following three lists detail the species that are considered by the CRC for publication
in Birds in Northumbria : - Category A - Category B - Category C - Category A - All species and subspecies considered by the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC).
The list of full species currently dealt with by the BBRC is available at this link
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Egyptian Goose American Wigeon Ring- Ferruginous Duck Surf Scoter Cory’s Shearwater Great Shearwater Balearic Shearwater Wilson’s Petrel Night Heron Great White Egret Purple Heron Honey Buzzard Black Kite White- Rough- Hobby Red- Spotted Crake Corncrake
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Common Crane Stone Curlew Kentish Plover American Golden Plover Temminck’s Stint White- Pectoral Sandpiper Buff- Red- Grey Phalarope Sabine’s Gull Ring- Yellow- Caspian Gull White- Alpine Swift Bee- Short- Woodlark Red-
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Richard’s Pipit Tawny Pipit Red- Water Pipit Nightingale Aquatic Warbler Marsh Warbler Subalpine Warbler Greenish Warbler Radde’s Warbler Dusky Warbler Crested Tit Woodchat Shrike Chough Rose- Serin Arctic Redpoll Ortolan Bunting Rustic Bunting Little Bunting
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Bean Goose (all races) Snow Goose Ruddy Shelduck Green- Leach’s Petrel Goshawk (coastal records only) Dotterel Long- |
Black Guillemot (away from Farne Islands & Holy Island) Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Bluethroat (autumn only) Icterine Warbler Barred Warbler Pallas’s Warbler (inland & spring birds only)
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Yellow- Red- Bearded Tit Golden Oriole Great Grey Shrike Common Rosefinch Corn Bunting |
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‘Continental’ Cormorant P.c.sinensis Lesser Black- L.f.intermedius & L.f.fuscus Herring Gull other than L.a.argenteus & L.a.argentatus Kumlien’s Gull L.g.kumlieni ‘Northern’ Great Spotted Woodpecker D.m.major ‘Scandinavian’ Rock Pipit A.p.littoralis |
Yellow Wagtail other than M.f.flava & M.f.flavissima White Wagtail M.a.alba (autumn only) ‘Black- C.c.cinclus ‘White- L.s.cyanecula Lesser Whitethroat (all races except S.c.curruca) Chiffchaff other than P.c.collybitta
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‘Northern’ Willow Warbler P.t.acredula ‘Northern’ Treecreeper C.f.familiaris Jackdaw other than C.m.spermologus ‘Northern’ Bullfinch P.p.pyrrhula |
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An interesting report on rare sub species or races is available at this link.
There is more information and guidance about submitting and documenting your bird records on the RECORDING page
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