Rarities in NI

The NIRBC assesses and publishes information on rarities in Northern Ireland. You can see more information at: https://nirbc.blogspot.co.uk/

NIRBC welcomes submissions from any observer of any rare species observed in Northern Ireland requiring a description before they are admitted to the official record. We endeavour to circulate and assess records rapidly and consistently and will publish decisions here in a timely manner. However, we can only work with the information that we receive so please submit supporting evidence for your own finds and, if you have observed a bird listed here that is flagged as lacking supporting information for assessment, please consider providing evidence yourself so that the record can be added to the official record.

You can submit supporting information, pictures or weblinks on any of these, at any time to the email address: NIRBComm@gmail.com or via the website: https://nirbc.blogspot.co.uk/

NIBRC also welcome submissions of evidence from any observers who seen any rarities, even if you were not the original finder. Please therefore feel free to provide any information and contribute to the record database for NI:

List of species requiring assessment:

Species
Cackling Goose	Greater Yellowlegs	Gyr Falcon
Snow Goose	Collared Pratincole	Red-backed Shrike
Taiga Bean Goose	Black-winged Pratincole	Daurian Shrike
Tundra Bean Goose	Ivory Gull	Great Grey Shrike
Bewick's Swan	Bonaparte's Gull	Woodchat Shrike
Ruddy Shelduck	Ross's Gull	Red-eyed Vireo
Baikal Teal	Laughing Gull	Golden Oriole
Blue-winged Teal	Franklin's Gull	Chough
American Wigeon	American Herring Gull	Woodlark
Ferruginous Duck	Caspian Gull	Shore Lark
Lesser Scaup	Gull-billed Tern	Short-toed Lark
King Eider	Elegant Tern	Red-rumped Swallow
Surf Scoter	Sooty Tern	Western Bonelli's Warbler
Bufflehead	Forster's Tern	Pallas's Warbler
Barrow's Goldeneye	Whiskered Tern	Radde's Warbler
Hooded Merganser	White-winged Black Tern	Melodious Warbler
Common Nighthawk	Pacific Diver	Icterine Warbler
Nightjar	White-billed Diver	Barred Warbler
Alpine Swift	Wilson's Petrel	Lesser Whitethroat
Pallid Swift	Black-browed Albatross	Subalpine Warbler
Great Spotted Cuckoo	Zino's/Fea's/Desertas Petrel	Firecrest
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Cory's Shearwater	White's Thrush
Black-billed Cuckoo	Great Shearwater	American Robin
Pallas's Sandgrouse	Barolo Shearwater	Bluethroat
Turtle Dove	Black Stork	Nightingale
Spotted Crake	White Stork	Red-flanked Bluetail
Crane	Glossy Ibis	Red-breasted Flycatcher
Red-necked Grebe	Bittern	Citrine Wagtail
Stone-curlew	American Bittern	Richard's Pipit
Black-winged Stilt	Little Bittern	Tawny Pipit
Avocet	Night-heron	Red-throated Pipit
Pacific Golden Plover	Squacco Heron	Buff-bellied Pipit
Little Ringed Plover	Purple Heron	Water Pipit
Killdeer	Honey-buzzard	Hawfinch
Kentish Plover	Goshawk	Common Rosefinch
Dotterel	Northern Harrier	Arctic Redpoll
Upland Sandpiper	Pallid Harrier	Two-barred Crossbill
Broad-billed Sandpiper	Montagu's Harrier	Corn Bunting
Stilt Sandpiper	Red Kite	Ortolan Bunting
Temminck's Stint	Black Kite	Little Bunting
Baird's Sandpiper	Bald Eagle	Rustic Bunting
White-rumped Sandpiper	Rough-legged Buzzard	Black-headed Bunting
Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Scops Owl	White-throated Sparrow
Semipalmated Sandpiper	Snowy Owl	Red Fox Sparrow
Long-billed Dowitcher	Little Owl	Dark-eyed Junco
Great Snipe	Roller	Black-and-white Warbler
Wilson's Snipe	Belted Kingfisher	Baltimore Oriole
Wilson's Phalarope	Bee-eater	Common Yellowthroat
Red-necked Phalarope	Wryneck	Scarlet Tanager
Spotted Sandpiper	Red-footed Falcon
Lesser Yellowlegs	Hobby
Sub-species
sinensis Cormorant
Russian White-fronted Goose
Black Brant
Grey-bellied Brent
Lesser Black-backed Gull other than graellsii
Herring Gull other than argenteus and argentatus
Rock Pipit, sub-species littoralis
Yellow Wagtail other than flavissima
American Black Tern