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Recording in the Sheffield area.

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Records Requiring Special Consideration.

The appearance of records on the SBSG web site does not guarantee the accuracy of records, nor their addition to the SBSG data-base or subsequent publication in the annual "Birds in the Sheffield Area". Records of species requiring full and supporting details to enable assessment at the appropriate [local/county/national] level will be indicated where appropriate.

In an effort to maintain the accuracy and integrity of all records of rare and scarce birds published in the annual report, observers are required to provide supporting details of species in the following two categories:

1. Any national rarity as defined by the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC)

2. Any county rarity as defined by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union (YNU) or the Derbyshire Ornithological Society (DOS).

Records of any of these species will be assessed by the relevant body. Descriptions should be submitted to the SBSG Recorder who will forward it to the BBRC or appropriate county committee. For this purpose, a special record form will be provided by the Group on request, or you can print off a form using the links below.

Descriptions are required for all species on the list without exception. Records with no description or which are rejected by the relevant county records committee will not be published by the SBSG.

Species in the Sheffield list requiring descriptions at county level are:

Bean Goose, Snow Goose, Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Eider, Long-tailed Duck, Velvet Scoter, Black Grouse, Quail (if silent), Golden Pheasant (female), Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver, Red-necked Grebe, Fulmar, Manx Shearwater, Storm Petrel, Leach’s Petrel, Gannet, Bittern, Night Heron, Great White Egret, Purple Heron, White Stork, Spoonbill, Honey Buzzard, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Montagu’s Harrier, Rough-legged Buzzard, Red-footed Falcon, Spotted Crake, Corncrake, Common Crane, Avocet, Stone Curlew, Dotterel, American Golden Plover, Temminck’s Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skua, Arctic Skua, Long-tailed Skua, Great Skua, Sabine’s Gull, Ring-billed Gull, White-winged Black Tern, Roseate Tern, Little Auk, Puffin, Alpine Swift, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Wood Lark, Shore Lark, Red-rumped Swallow, Richard’s Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Nightingale, Marsh Warbler, Dartford Warbler,Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Bearded Tit; Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Twite (away from known areas), Common (Mealy) Redpoll, Arctic Redpoll, Lapland Bunting, Snow Bunting.

In addition, descriptions may be required for other species at the discretion of the SBSG Recorder and/or Rarities Committee as follows:

3. an unusual or unseasonal record of a more common species

4. certain subspecies separable in the field. e.g. Greenland Wheatear, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail (excluding flavissima).

5. any species not recorded in the Sheffield Area since 1960

6. any of the following species:

White-fronted Goose, Garganey [female], Scaup [both sexes: to eliminate similar aythya - type hybrids], Slavonian Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Shag, Red Kite, Marsh Harrier, Goshawk (away from known localities), Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull, Iceland Gull, Iceland Gull, Little Tern, Water Pipit, Rock Pipit, Black Redstart (female/immature), Common Rosefinch.

The S.B.S.G. Records Sub-Committee still reserves the right to ask for full details of any species recorded in the area and not covered by the above guidelines.

As mentioned above, please use the following links to print off the two-part SBSG Rare Bird Description Form. This requires the freely available "Adobe Reader" - see below.

If you have Adobe Reader installed, simply click on the link and Adobe Reader will automatically open.
Use the Adobe PRINT button [not the one from your browser] to print off the form.
When completed the form should be sent to:
The SBSG Recorder, Mr Kevin Gould, 27 Craggon Drive, New Whittington, Chesterfield S43 2QA

Rare Bird Description Form Part 1
Rare Bird Description Form Part 2

If you don't have Adobe Reader installed, click on this link to get the free download

Last updated 4th January 2008

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