The year 2012 in birding and ornithology.
Worldwide edit
New species edit
Taxonomic developments edit
Ornithologists edit
Deaths edit
- Jeffery Boswall (20 March 1931 – 15 August 2012)
World listing edit
Asia edit
Israel edit
- Israel's 5th European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) off Ashdod on 28 January[1]
- Israel's 6th great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) off Haifa on 28 January[2]
Kuwait edit
- Kuwait's second white wagtail (Motacilla alba) at Wafra Farms from 10 – 18 February.[3]
Europe edit
Denmark edit
- A black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus) seen flying from Gilleleje north of Copenhagen towards Sweden on 29 April will be the 4th Danish record if accepted.[4]
- A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) at Møllehus, Tønder on the Danish/German border on 14 July will be the 4th Danish record and first for 26 years.[5]
Faroe Islands edit
- The Faroe Islands first Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia) at Sandágerði, Tórshavn on 11 January.[6]
France edit
- An Oriental turtle dove, (Streptopelia orientalis ssp meena) at Lot-et-Garonne on 6 March; sixth record for France if accepted.[7]
Gibraltar edit
- A tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) at North Mole, Gibraltar first seen on 14 February. If accepted will be a first for the Western Palearctic.[8] Originally identified as a northern mockingbird[9]
Lithuania edit
- An adult male bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) at Limeikiai, Panevezys on 26 April, will be the first for Lithuania if accepted.[10]
Madeira edit
- Madeira's first American coot (Fulica americana) at Lugar de Baixo on 21 January.[11]
Netherlands edit
- An adult black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus) at Muiden, Zuidpolder on 29 April will be the 7th record for the Netherlands if accepted.[4]
Sweden edit
- A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) just to the south of Gothenburg is the third for Sweden and the first since 2000 if accepted.[5]
- Sweden's third dusky thrush (Turdus eunomus) at Nyköping, Södermanland on 14 January.[12]
United Kingdom edit
- July – only the second brood of spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) have hatched in captivity at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust's Slimbridge Wetland Centre as part of a breeding scheme to save the critically endangered species from extinction.[13]
North America edit
United States edit
- A pair of endangered short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) have produced one chick on Midway Atoll for the second year running.[14]
References edit
- ^ "European Storm-petrel". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ^ "Great Shearwater". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ^ "Masked Wagtail". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Black-winged Kite". Birdguides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 2013-08-27. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ "Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ "Oriental (Rufous) Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis". BirdGuides.
- ^ "Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ^ "Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ^ "Bird News Extra". Birdguides. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ "American Coot Fulica americana". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
- ^ "Dusky Thrush". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
- ^ "WWT First ever Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK". BirdGuides. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ "Endangered Bird Produces a Chick on U.S. Soil for Second Time in History". American Bird Conservancy. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
External links edit
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper on BirdLife Archived 2016-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
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