UAE - Rare birds to be reported to the E.B.R.C.
Updated 22.05.2011
The list of rare bird species that require a completed Rare Bird Report to be submitted to the E.B.R.C. prior to admission to the national record is detailed below.
Click to download a blank Rare Bird Report form: Download RBR
As a general rule, this list features species for which less than 20 accepted records exist. Note, however, the following two points:
- A number of difficult-to-identify species (including, for example, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Little and Baillon's Crakes and Hume's Whitethroat) currently remain on the list, regardless of the number of accepted records.
- Further, if one (or more) member(s) of the E.B.R.C. feel that evidence should be provided for a particular record of a species not on the following list, the observer will be contacted and asked for a Rare Bird Report to be submitted.
For the reason outlined above, the E.B.R.C. recommend that visitors unfamiliar with the birds of the Middle East region take fieldnotes / photographs of any species where the identification is difficult or the observer suspects that the species in question might be a rarity. It is better to have 'over-documented' a common species than to be asked for a Rare Bird Report of a rare species but have no field evidence from which to compile a report.
The following species require a description prior to acceptance to the national record:
- Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii
- Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
- Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus
- Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris
- Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor
- Jouanin’s Petrel Bulweria fallax
- Cory's Shearwater Calonectris (diomedea) borealis
- Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carneipes
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus
- Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus (report required July to March incl.)
- Leach’s Storm Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa
- Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Oceanodroma monorhis
- Black Stork Ciconia nigra
- Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
- Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
- Red-footed Booby Sula sula
- Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus
- Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus
- Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeus
- Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia
- Eastern Cattle Egret Bubulcus (ibis) coromandus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Pallas’s Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus
- Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus cyaneus
- Shikra Accipiter badius (report not required from the Dubai area)
- Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina
- Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Saker Falcon Falco cherrug
- Little Crake Porzana parva
- Baillon’s Crake Porzana pusilla
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo
- Common Crane Grus grus
- Great Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Kittlitz’s Plover Charadrius pecuarius
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
- Great Snipe Gallinago media
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria
- Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
- Small Pratincole Glareola lactea
- Greater Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
- Sabine’s Gull Xema sabini
- Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus
- White-eyed Gull Larus leucopthalmus
- Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris
- Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Brown-/ South Polar Skua Stercorarius antarcticus/maccormicki
- Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus
- Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus
- Stock Dove Columba oenas
- Common Woodpigeon Columba palumbus
- Red Turtle Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- Pied Cuckoo Oxylophus jacobinus
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Sykes’s Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis
- Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
- White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus
- Fan-tailed Raven Corvus rhipidurus
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra
- Dunn’s Lark Eremalauda dunni
- Temminck’s Lark Eremophila bilopha
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Streak-throated Swallow Petrochelidon fluvicola
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Cetti’s Warbler Cettia cetti
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Radde’s Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus
- Booted Warbler Hippolais caligata
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon
- Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola
- Blyth’s Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum
- Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis
- River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis
- Hume's Whitethroat Sylvia althaea
- Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelaena
- White-spotted Bluethroat Luscinia svecica cyanecula
- Caucasian Bluethroat Luscinia svecica magna
- Caspian Stonechat Saxicola torquatus variegatus
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Eversmann’s Redstart Phoenicurus erythronota (report required for females only)
- Pied Stonechat Saxicola caprata
- Blackstart Cercomela melanura
- White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga
- Finsch’s Wheatear Oenanthe finschii
- Kurdistan Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Fieldfare Turdus pilaris
- Redwing Turdus iliacus
- Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cineracea
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- White-headed Wagtail Motacilla flava leucocephala
- Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens japonicus
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
- White-capped Bunting Emberiza stewarti
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola
- Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps
- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
- Common Linnet Carduelis cannabina
- Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
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