1999 in birding and ornithology
| Years in birding and ornithology: | 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 |
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| Years: | 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 |
- See also 1998 in birding and ornithology, main events of 1999, other specialist lists of events in 1999 and 2000 in birding and ornithology
Worldwide
New species
- See also Bird species new to science described in the 1990s
- The jocotoco antpitta from Ecuador is described.
Taxonomic developments
To be completed
Europe
Britain
Breeding birds
- More than 400 red kites fledged across Britain.
Migrant and wintering birds
- Large numbers of pomarine skuas are seen off the east coast during October and November.
Rare birds
- The third and fourth Iberian chiffchaffs are seen during the spring.
- Britain's third spectacled warbler is seen in Devon in June.
- The first royal tern for Scotland and fifth for Britain is seen in Lothian in August.
- There is an influx of American waders during September.
- A short-billed dowitcher seen first in Aberdeenshire and then in Cleveland is the first record for Britain.
- Britain's first short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus) is found on the Isles of Scilly on 7 October until 11 October[1]
- A black-faced bunting in Northumberland in October is the second for Britain.
- Britain's second mourning dove appears in the Outer Hebrides in November.
- Britain's fifth Balearic woodchat shrike (Lanius senator badius) at Troy Town, St Agnes from 21–27 April. (Accepted by the BBRC)[2]
Other events
- The British Birdwatching Fair has Brazil's Atlantic forests as its theme for the year.
Scandinavia
To be completed
North America
- In April, Louisiana State University student David Kulivan sees a pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area on the Louisiana/Mississippi border.
To be completed
Asia
To be completed