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 2010s (decade)

Ornithologists

Deaths

• Jeffery Boswall (20 March 1931 – 15 August 2012)

Asia

Israel

• Israel's 5th European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) off Ashdod on 28 January ^[1]
• Israel's 6th great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) off Haifa on 28 January ^[2]

Kuwait

• Kuwait's second white wagtail (Motacilla alba) at Wafra Farms from 10 – 18 February. ^[3]

Europe

Denmark

• A black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus) seen flying from Gilleleje north of Copenhagen towards Sweden on 29 April will be the 4th Danish record if accepted. ^[4]
• A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) at Møllehus, Tønder on the Danish/German border on 14 July will be the 4th Danish record and first for 26 years. ^[5]

Faroe Islands

• The Faroe Islands first Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia) at Sandágerði, Tórshavn on 11 January. ^[6]

France

• An Oriental turtle dove, (Streptopelia orientalis ssp meena) at Lot-et-Garonne on 6 March; sixth record for France if accepted. ^[7]

Gibraltar

• A tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) at North Mole, Gibraltar first seen on 14 February. If accepted will be a first for the Western Palearctic. ^[8] Originally identified as a northern mockingbird ^[9]

Lithuania

• An adult male bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) at Limeikiai, Panevėžys on 26 April, will be the first for Lithuania if accepted. ^[10]

Madeira

• Madeira's first American coot (Fulica americana) at Lugar de Baixo on 21 January. ^[11]

Netherlands

• An adult black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus) at Muiden, Zuidpolder on 29 April will be the 7th record for the Netherlands if accepted. ^[4]

Sweden

• A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) just to the south of Gothenburg is the third for Sweden and the first since 2000 if accepted. ^[5]
• Sweden's third dusky thrush (Turdus eunomus) at Nyköping, Södermanland on 14 January. ^[12]

United Kingdom

• July – only the second brood of spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) 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. ^[13]

North America

United States

• A pair of endangered short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) have produced one chick on Midway Atoll for the second year running. ^[14]

References

1. "European Storm-petrel". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
2. "Great Shearwater". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
3. "Masked Wagtail". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
4. "Black-winged Kite". Birdguides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
5. "Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 2013-08-27. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
6. "Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
7. "Oriental (Rufous) Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis". BirdGuides.
8. "Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
9. "Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
10. "Bird News Extra". Birdguides. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
11. "American Coot Fulica americana". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
12. "Dusky Thrush". BirdGuides. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
13. "WWT First ever Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK". BirdGuides. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
14. "Endangered Bird Produces a Chick on U.S. Soil for Second Time in History". American Bird Conservancy. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

External links

• Spoon-billed Sandpiper on BirdLife Archived 2016-10-21 at the Wayback Machine