1996 in birding and ornithology

1996 in birding and ornithology

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:" See also 1995 in birding and ornithology, main events of 1996, other specialist lists of events in 1996 and 1997 in birding and ornithology"

Worldwide

* 41 Northern Bald Ibises, a fifth of the known world population, die in Morocco of unknown causes.

New species

:"See also Bird species new to science described in the 1990s

* The Cryptic Warbler ("Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi") from Madagascar is first described.

Taxonomic developments

"To be completed"

Ornithologists

Deaths

* 21 May - Bobby Tulloch (b. 1929)

Europe

Britain

Breeding birds

* The only breeding pair of Golden Eagles in England hatch a chick for the first time in three years at Haweswater.
* 580 singing male Corncrakes are counted, up from 537 in 1995.
* The first inland breeding of Avocets in modern times takes place at a site in London. However breeding success at coastal colonies in East Anglia is poor.
* A pair of Hoopoes successfully breed in Mid Wales.

Migrant and wintering birds

* Thousands of Waxwings are seen across Britain in the first few months of the year.
* Large numbers of Little Stints and Curlew Sandpipers pass through during the autumn.

Rare birds

* A Redhead in Nottinghamshire in March is Britain's first
* An American Coot at Stodmarsh, Kent in April is Britain's first
* An Indigo Bunting on Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire in October is Britain's first
* A Cedar Waxwing in Nottingham in February is Britain's second, but the first to be seen by large numbers of observers
* A Great Knot on Teesside in October is Britain's second, but the first to be seen by large numbers of observers
* A Caspian Plover on Shetland in June is Britain's fourth
* A Calandra Lark on the Isles of Scilly in April is Britain's fifth
* During October, the Isles of Scilly also hosted two Black-and-white Warblers and Britain's sixth Buff-bellied Pipit
* A Spanish Sparrow arrives in Cumbria in July to begin a year-long stay; few observers had seen this species in Britain previously
* The influx of Arctic Redpolls of the race "exilipes" which began in late 1995 continued, and became the largest recorded invasion of this species into the country

Other Events

* Thousands of seabirds are killed by an oil spill when the Sea Empress oil tanker runs aground in Pembrokeshire in February.
* A trial cull of Ruddy Ducks takes place in the Midlands.
* At Rutland Water a project to reintroduce Ospreys begins.
* The British Birdwatching Fair has the Vietnamese rainforest as its theme for the year with the Vietnamese Pheasant as its flagship species.

Ireland

* A Long-toed Stint at Ballycotton, County Cork in June is the first for Ireland.

candinavia

"To be completed"

North America

"To be completed"

Asia

* Four Siberian White Cranes arrive at Bharatpur in India, the first records of this highly endangered species there since the 1992/1993 winter.


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