Record Reporting Forms

It is helpful if descriptions of WRP species are submitted as soon as possible after the sighting, via the County Recorder Rob Jones (goweros10@gmail.com).

Taiga Bean Goose, Tundra Bean Goose, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Lesser Scaup, Surf Scoter, Smew, White-billed Diver, Cory’s Shearwater, Great Shearwater, Wilson’s Petrel, Red-necked Grebe, Night Heron, Cattle Egret, Purple Heron, White Stork, Glossy Ibis, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Montagu’s Harrier, Rough-legged Buzzard, Golden Eagle, Red-footed Falcon, Corncrake, Spotted Crake, Crane, Stone Curlew, American Golden Plover, Kentish Plover, Temminck’s Stint, White-rumped Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Ring-billed Gull, Caspian Gull, White-winged Black Tern, Alpine Swift, Bee-eater, Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Woodchat Shrike, Bearded Tit, Short-toed Lark, Shore Lark, Red-rumped Swallow, Red-throated Pipit, Tawny Pipit, Greenish Warbler, Dusky Warbler, Radde’s Warbler, Pallas’s Warbler, Barred Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Aquatic Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Blyth’s Reed Warbler, Subalpine Warbler, Rose-coloured Starling, Nightingale, Bluethroat, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Penduline Tit, Citrine Wagtail, Tawny Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Serin, Common Redpoll, Arctic Redpoll, Common Rosefinch, Corn Bunting, Cirl Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Rustic Bunting and Little Bunting.

And races: Black Brant Goose – nigricans, Iceland Gull – kumlieni, Common Guillemot – hyperborean, Razorbill – torda, Little Auk – polaris, Great Spotted Woodpecker – major, Grey-headed Wagtail – thunbergi, Siberian Chiffchaff – abietinus and tristis, Treecreeper – familiaris, Coal Tit – ater, Jay – glandarius, Jackdaw – monedula, Redpolls – islandia/rostrata and Bullfinch – pyrrhula. PDF copy of this list is available as a download from the Birds in Wales website http://www.birdsinwales.org.uk/rare/wrp.htm

It is helpful if descriptions of GRC species are submitted as soon as possible after the sighting, via the County Recorder Rob Jones (goweros10@gmail.com). Occasionally further descriptive notes may be requested at the discretion of the Recorder for more common species for colour variants, out-of-season sightings and unusually large numbers, etc.

Scarce species (assessed by GRC) are species that are sufficiently common to avoid need of a description to BBRC or WRP yet scarce enough to warrant care in recording the record officially in Glamorgan. The full list of species which the Committee considers is as follows:

Great White Egret (away from Burry Inlet), Whooper Swan, Bewick’s Swan, Greater White-fronted Goose, Pink-footed Goose, Barnacle Goose, Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, Velvet Scoter, Ruddy Duck, Red Grouse, Black Grouse, Black-throated Diver, Red-necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe (except records from Burry Est.), Black-necked Grebe, Sooty Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, Leach’s Petrel, Eurasian Spoonbill, Honey Buzzard, Avocet, Dotterel, Wood Sandpiper, Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skua, Long-tailed Skua, Sabine’s Gull, Iceland Gull, Glaucous Gull, Roseate Tern, Black Guillemot, Little Auk, Puffin (except records between Oxwich Bay to Whiteford Point), Turtle Dove, Long-eared Owl, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Waxwing, Richard’s Pipit, Water Pipit (non-estuarine records only), Yellow-browed Warbler, Great Grey Shrike, Hooded Crow, Tree Sparrow, Twite, Lapland Bunting.

And races: Blue-headed Wagtail – flava, Rock Pipit – littoralis. Also, any species not previously recorded in the Area.

Please report rarities to the appropriate records committee within hours rather than days. Routine reports at the year-end should come to GOS ideally by 31st January for the preceding recording year.