Is there a list anywhere of the fewest number of times a species has nested in UK...? was talking to wife about bee eaters breeding near here a few years ago and said it very rarely happens and when she asked if there was any species that had only bred in UK once, I had to admit "I don't know"...I mentioned Great White Egret as a possibility but she says that wouldn't be what she meant if it was going to start breeding regularly..she meant "one-offs" .....can anybody help?
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Strandman
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no doubt the best ones are deathly secret
so sticking with published stuff as we all should and aside from American waders, Gull-billed Terns at Abberton in 1950 is an example
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Dunno, but one place to look is the Rare Breeding Birds website tho it seems to be down at the moment !?
checked out rare birds site, but seems to be mainly modern records and these species may be in process of colonising, whereas she meant species that were unexpected and more or less random.....seem to remember talk of Moustached Warbler some years ago, but Gull-billed Tern is the sort of thing that fits what she wants to know.....thanks for responses..anyone who can recall others, I would be grateful to know
Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Spotted Sandpiper, once in Scotland, certainly fits the criteria
Farnboro John
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Pallas's Sandgrouse in the 19th century? Certainly wouldn't want to be waiting on the next breeding record....
John
John
Yeah..me neither........it would be like the pair of Rollers shot near Skelton around the same time and when they prepared the female for mounting, they found eggs.....Have they ever bred here since .but that was the way of things at the time...glad things have moved on
That (in Cambridgeshire IIRC) turned out to be a mistake, highly embarrassing for some of the great and good in British ornithology ...
Dave...the "great and the good" are not as great or as good as they think they are.....I was told that I had not seen a Red Grouse, but had seen a Partridge because "Grouse have NEVER been seen where you saw it and you live on a council estate and I drive a Morgan"...the fact that I was 20 with long hair and he was a 50 year old who had to be called "Major" didn't help as did my short two word reply...never been a member of a Bird Club since...though I know most members are OK, they seem to attract "don't you know who I am types"....any way thanks again for your input
Ray Cox
Ray Cox
