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British Birds Rarities Committee
Decisions
The British Birds
Rarities Committee is the official adjudicator of rare birds in Great
Britain.
Its members
are democratically elected by birders representatives in each County
and serve for a fixed term. It publishes its annual report in British Birds,
a leading journal for the modern birder.
The following
information has been extracted and updated from the latest report and
provides details of the accepted records of rare birds in Yorkshire.
REPORTS
The Black Lark,
Spurn 27th April 1984, (the late N.A.Bell , A.Cruickshank, B.R.Spence),
has been accepted by the Committee in the 2003 Report. It was a First for
Britain. This record was first submitted to the BBRC in 1999. It was first
seen by four observers, one of whom was a non-birder. The others included
Barry Spence (then warden of Spurn Point Nature Reserve ) and the late Nick
Bell, who submitted notes and also wrote an account at the time in the Spurn
Bird Observatory. It was pended by BBRC
following the first circulation but during the process, additional notes
were submitted by the fourth observer, Alex Cruickshank .The file then
underwent three re-circulations of BBRC before finally being accepted and
being passed to The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC) for ratification of an addition to the British List.
2001
Pine Bunting Filey 3rd March.
Pallid Swift Nosterfield 28th May.
2002
Red-rumpted Swallow Reighton
31st March
Gull-billed Tern Old Moor Wath 29th May
White-rumped Sandpiper Filey 15th August
Fea's/Zino's Petrel Flamborough 23rd September.
Citrine Wagtail Flamborough 27-30th September
Two barred Crossbill Bole Edge Plantation 1st-5th September
Alpine Swift Fairburn Ings 5th October
Red-rumped Swallow East Park 2nd-3rd April.
2003
Lesser Scaup Hornsea
Mere 11th-23 rdJanuary
Potteric Carr 2nd-9th April
New Swillington Ings 16th-23rd
April
Great White Egret North Ferriby 29th March
Pallid
Harrier Spurn 1st-3rd April
Alpine Swift Otley 26th April
Taiga Flycatcher Flamborough Head 26th-27th April
Gull-bileed Tern Old Moor Wath 29th May
Red-footed Falcon Scalby Mills 1st June
Cleasby,8th June
Red-rumped Swallow East Kilnsea, Spurn 23rd April
Flamborough Head 27th April
Broad-billed Sandpiper Patrington Haven 12th October
Whiskered Tern Tophill Low 14th June
Great White Egret Leyburn 19th April
Citrine Wagtail Filey 21st September
Greenish Warbler Filey 12th-13th August 4th-7th September
Black Stork Anglers CP 10th September
American Golden Plover Old Moor 20th-22nd September
White-winged Black Tern Pulfin
Bog 31st July
Bonaparte's Gull Fairburn Ings 8th April,1st May,9th-13th May
White- billed Diver Cloughton Wyke 4th February
Great White Egret(2)Denaby Ings 19th July
Dusky Warbler Filey 13-14th&29-30th October
Lesser Yellowlegs Thorne Moors 27th April-2nd May
American Golden Plover Bishopthorpe 30th September-7th October
Zino's/Fea's Petrel Flamborough 24th August
Baird's Sandpiper Nosterfield 20-23rd September
Great Spotted Cuckoo Spurn 19-31st July
Olive-backed Pipit Spurn 19-20th November
Filey
19th October
Blyth's Reed Warbler Spurn 8-9th June
Sub-alpine Warbler
Easington 18-19th October
Arctic Warbler Spurn 25-31st August
Hume's Warbler Spurn 26th October-1st November
Easington 8-11th November
Ness Point Whitby 19th-20th
Flamborough Head 23rd-24th October& 10th-15th November
Holpton
9th November
Radde's Warbler Spurn 1st&12th October
Western Bonelli's Warbler Kilnsea 30th September
Pine Bunting Flamborough
Head 11-12th November
2004
Alpine Swift
Scarborough 14th March-15th April
Alpine Swift Knaresborough 15th March
Great White Egret Fairburn Ings 19th May
Great white Egret Scaling Dam 26th June
Old Moor 2nd-22nd September
Bufflehead, Pugneys CP May 12th-22nd April
Red-rumped Swallow Knaresborough (2) 7th-10th April
Welton Water 16th April
Spurn (2) 17th April & 2nd May
Thrybergh CP,30th April-1st May
Filey 4th May
Fairburn Ings
(2) 9th May
Whiskered Tern ( 4 ) Lakeside, Doncaster & Potteric Carr 16th May
Iberian Chiffchaff Easington 17th May
White- throated Sparrow,Swanland,31st May
Red -throated Pipit Kilnsea 1st June
Greater Sand Plover, Beacon Ponds, Kilnsea,3rd July
White-winged Black Tern Astley Lake (2) 21st-22nd May
Farnham Gravel Pits 4th July
Fairburn Ings 5th-7th July
Hornsea Mere 9th-11th August and presumed same 15th
Cattle Egret Fairburn Ings 7th-10th July
Pacific Golden Plover Spurn 16th-17th July
Greenish Warbler Flamborough 28th August
Spurn 30th August
Western Bonelli's Warbler,Bempton,30th-31st August
Arctic Warbler Bempton Cliffs 8th September
Baird's Sandpiper, Flamborough 27th September-4th October
American Golden Plover Lingham lake Nosterfield 2nd October
Calandra Lark Spurn 3rd October
White's Thrush Easington 10th October
Olive-backed Pipit,Spurn,9th-10th October
Flamborough Head 16th October
Long-billed Dowitcher, 3rd July Beacon Ponds same as Spurn 14th-16th October
Black-faced Bunting Flamborough Head 15th October
Radde's Warbler Flamborough head 16th October
Pallid Swift,Spurn,20th October
Dusky Warbler, Scarborough, 21st-27th October
Eastern' Stonechat Spurn 22nd-28th October
Pine Grosbeak, Easington,8th-10th November
Not Accepted.
Marsh Sandpiper, Paull
Holme Strays,3rd August
Yelkouon Shearwater Flamborough Head 10th July
Dowitcher sp Spurn (2) 11th October
Caspian Tern Blacktoft Sands 27th June
Pallid Swift, Spurn 29th October
2005
Belted
Kingfisher, Eastrington Ponds 2nd April
Pine Bunting, Bempton 10th-11th April
Red-rumped Swallow,Spurn,27th April,1st-4th May
Subalpine Warbler ,Spurn,1st May
Alpine Swift, Easington 25th May
Spurn,29th May
Greenish warbler, Flamborough Head,27th May
Spurn,31st August,6th-8th September
Filey,3rd-5th September
Pacific Swift, Spurn,1st
July
Laughing Gull Scalby Lodge Pond 22nd July
Caspian Tern, Spurn,5thAugust
Black Stork, Spurn,7th August
Lesser Yellow Legs Top Hill Low 25th-29th August
Lesser Grey Shrike, Spurn, 2nd September
Spurn, 24th-30th September
Greenish Warbler Castle Hill Scarborough 9th-12th September
Ravenscar 11th September
Booted Warbler North Castle Hill Scarborough 10th September
Long billed Dowitcher Spurn 2nd October
Red-throated Pipit, Easington 10th October
Kilnsea,11th October
Radde's Warbler, Easington,8th-9th October
Dusky Warbler, Spurn, 7th-16th October
Rustic Bunting, Spurn, 15th-18th October
Olive-backed Pipit Flamborough Head 16th October
Laughing Gull Wintersett CP and Pontefract 16th October-13th
November
Spotted Sandpiper, Easington Lagoons, 23rd October
Pallid Swift, Spurn, 30th October
Great White Egret,Flamborough,3rd November
Chimney Swift,Spurn,4th November
Lesser Scaup, East Hornsea Mere, 13th November-16th January
2006
Hume's Warbler, Filey, 7th-30th December
Not Accepted
Zino's/Fea's
Petrel,Atwick,20th July
Filey,20th July,11th August
Black Kite, Bishop Monkton Ings 2nd May
Stainton,14th May.
Low Bardon Reservoir,21st June
Red-footed Falcon,Fraisthorpe,22nd May
Baird's Sandpiper,Spurn,11th September
White's Thrush Filey 6th October
Ferruginous Duck Farnham Gravel Pits 13th October
2006
Blue-winged Teal Filey
Dams 11th-14th April
Lesser Scaup Farnham
Gravel Pits 30th April
East Hornsea Mere 10th July
Broad -billed Sandpiper Spurn 13th-15th May
Black Stork Filey 23rd May
Great Reed Warbler Spurn 26th May
Lesser Grey Shrike Reighton 23rd-26th June
Paddyfield Warbler Kilnsea 13th August
Thrush Nightingale Spurn 18th/21st August
Olive-backed Pipit Spurn 14th October
Isabelline Wheatear Filey 14th October
Two-barred Greenish Warbler Siberian race Filey
16th-18th October
Red-Breasted Goose 2 Spurn 27th October
Not Accepted
White-billed Diver Hornsea 17th February
For further information about the work of the
British Birds Rarities Committee visit their web site, which can be
found by viewing the Links page of this web site.
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