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)
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
- ↑ "European Storm-petrel". BirdGuides. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Great Shearwater". BirdGuides. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Masked Wagtail". BirdGuides. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ↑ "WWT First ever Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK". BirdGuides. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Black-winged Kite". Birdguides. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "http://www.birdguides.comGriffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)asp?sp=030048". BirdGuides. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ↑ "Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia". BirdGuides. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ↑ "Oriental (Rufous) Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis". BirdGuides.
- ↑ "Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus". BirdGuides. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ↑ "Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos". BirdGuides. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ↑ "Bird News Extra". Birdguides. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ↑ "American Coot Fulica americana". BirdGuides. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
- ↑ "Dusky Thrush". BirdGuides. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
- ↑ "Endangered Bird Produces a Chick on U.S. Soil for Second Time in History". American Bird Conservancy. Retrieved 1 February 2012.