2012 in birding and ornithology

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The year 2012 in birding and ornithology.

Worldwide

New species

See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s (decade)

Ornithologists

Deaths

• Jeffery Boswall

Asia

Israel

• Israel's 5th European storm petrel off Ashdod on 28 January^[1]
• Israel's 6th great shearwater off Haifa on 28 January^[2]

Kuwait

• Kuwait's second masked wagtail at Wafra Farms from 10 – 18 February.^[3]

Russia

• July – only the second brood of spoon-billed sandpiper 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.^[4]

Europe

Denmark

• A black-winged kite seen flying from Gilleleje north of Copenhagen towards Sweden on 29 April will be the 4th Danish record if accepted.^[5]
• A griffon vulture at Møllehus, Tønder on the Danish/German border on 14 July will be the 4th Danish record and first for 26 years.^[6]

Faroe Islands

• The Faroe Islands' first Bonaparte's gull at Sandágerði, Tórshavn on 11 January.^[7]

France

• An Oriental turtle dove, ssp meena at Lot-et-Garonne on 6 March; sixth record for France if accepted.^[8]

Gibraltar

• A tropical mockingbird at North Mole, Gibraltar first seen on 14 February. If accepted will be a first for the Western Palearctic.^[9] Originally identified as a northern mockingbird^[10]

Lithuania

• A adult male bufflehead at Limeikiai, Panevezys on 26 April, will be the first for Lithuania if accepted.^[11]

Madeira

• Madeira's first American coot at Lugar de Baixo on 21 January.^[12]

Netherlands

• An adult black-winged kite at Muiden, Zuidpolder on 29 April will be the 7th record for the Netherlands if accepted.^[5]

Sweden

• A griffon vulture just to the south of Gothenburg is the third for Sweden and the first since 2000 if accepted.^[6]
• Sweden's third dusky thrush at Nyköping, Södermanland on 14 January.^[13]

North America

United States

• A pair of endangered short-tailed albatrosses have produced one chick on Midway Atoll for the second year running.^[14]

References

1. "European Storm-petrel". BirdGuides. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
2. "Great Shearwater". BirdGuides. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
3. "Masked Wagtail". BirdGuides. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
4. "WWT First ever Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK". BirdGuides. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
5. "Black-winged Kite". Birdguides. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
6. "http://www.birdguides.comGriffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)asp?sp=030048". BirdGuides. Retrieved 14 July 2012. External link in |title= (help)
7. "Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia". BirdGuides. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
8. "Oriental (Rufous) Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis". BirdGuides.
9. "Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus". BirdGuides. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
10. "Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos". BirdGuides. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
11. "Bird News Extra". Birdguides. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
12. "American Coot Fulica americana". BirdGuides. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
13. "Dusky Thrush". BirdGuides. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
14. "Endangered Bird Produces a Chick on U.S. Soil for Second Time in History". American Bird Conservancy. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

External links

• Spoon-billed Sandpiper on BirdLife