The BOU Record Committee’s (BOURC) 36th Report has recently been published in the BOU’s journal Ibis (citation – British Ornithologists’ Union. 2008. Ibis 150: 218-220).The full report can viewed online at here.
The 36th Report covers the period April to October 2007 and is the third report to follow publication of the most recent checklist: The British List: A Checklist of Birds of Britain (7th edition) that appeared in Ibis 148: 526-563. The 35th Report appeared in Ibis 149: 652-654.
The report includes the following items -
- Changes to the British List
- - - Wilson’s Petrel Oceanites oceanicus
- - - Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- - - Allen’s Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- - - Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- - - Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
- - - Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus
- - - Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
- - - taxonomic sequence of shanks
- - - Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans
- - - American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- - - Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei
- - - Bonaparte’s Gull Chroicocephalus Philadelphia
- - - Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- - - Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutes
- - - taxonomic sequence of gulls
- - - Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix
- - - Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- - - Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius
- - - Olive-tree Warbler Hippolais olivetorum
- - - Willow Tit Poecile montana
- Revised British List totals reflecting changes
- The position of flamingos and grebes
- Other species considered
- - - Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta
- Files under consideration
- Erratum: The British List (7th Edition)
- Publications by members of BOURC and BOURC-TSC
CITATION: British Ornithologists’ Union. 2008. Ibis 150: 218-220.The full report can viewed online here .
