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LIST OF SPECIES REQUIRING A DESCRIPTION OR ACCOUNT


Divers - all Phalaropes - all
Red-necked Grebe Skuas - all
Black-necked Grebe Mediterranean Gull
Slavonian Grebe Yellow-legged Gull
Fulmar Iceland Gull
Shearwaters and Petrels - all Glaucous Gull
Gannet Terns - all except Common
Shag Auks – all
Bittern Barn Owl
White-fronted Goose Hoopoe
Brent Goose Wryneck
Garganey Woodlark
Red-crested Pochard Shorelark
Eider Duck Rock Pipit
Long-tailed Duck Water Pipit
Velvet Scoter Nightingale
Harriers - all Bluethroat
Goshawk Black Redstart
Osprey Yellow-browed Warbler
Hobby Firecrest
Avocet Marsh Tit
Dotterel Shrikes – all
Little Stint Hooded Crow
Curlew Sandpiper Raven (lowlands)
Purple Sandpiper Lapland Bunting
Wood Sandpiper Snow Bunting


Reports of the above species, in addition to all British Birds Rarities and YNU species (see next table) requiring a description, must be supported by a description or account and should be submitted as soon as possible after the observation. For some of the more frequently occurring species an account of the occurrence will be sufficient.

Inexperienced observers may like to contact one of the Records Sub-committee at the time of the sighting to obtain help if they are confronted with a “mystery” bird:

Brian Armitage Tel. 01484 305054
John Dale Tel. 01844 652453

Details may also be requested of unseasonal records and well-defined races.

YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION LIST OF SPECIES REQUIRING A DESCRIPTION OR ACCOUNT


Cory's Shearwater Roseate Tern
Great Shearwater Ring-billed Gull
Balearic Shearwater Black Guillemot
Storm Petrel Bee-Eater
Leach's Petrel Short-toed Lark
Little Egret Richard’s Pipit
Purple Heron Tawny Pipit
Bean Goose (including race) Cetti’s Warbler
Green-winged Teal Savi’s Warbler
Ring-necked Duck Aquatic Warbler
Surf Scoter Marsh Warbler
Honey Buzzard Icterine Warbler
Montagu’s Harrier Melodious Warbler
Rough-legged Buzzard Dartford Warbler
Golden Eagle Barred Warbler
Spotted Crake Pallas’s Warbler
Corncrake Red-breasted Flycatcher
Common Crane Woodchat Shrike
Kentish Plover Serin
Temminck’s Stint Common Rosefinch
Pectoral Sandpiper Cirl Bunting
Red-necked Phalarope Ortolan Bunting
Grey Phalarope Little Bunting


Gray Wagtail Blackbird


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