- Source: 1999 in birding and ornithology
See also 1998 in birding and ornithology, main events of 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
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 to 27 April. (Accepted by the BBRC)
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
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 1999 in birding and ornithology
- 1998 in birding and ornithology
- 2000 in birding and ornithology
- 2002 in birding and ornithology
- 1996 in birding and ornithology
- 2021 in birding and ornithology
- 1818 in birding and ornithology
- 2020 in birding and ornithology
- 2001 in birding and ornithology
- American Birding Association
