2000 in birding and ornithology
# 2000 in birding and ornithology

## Worldwide

### New species

    See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s
* Foothill elaenia Myiopagis olallai from Ecuador and Peru is described as new to science in The Wilson Bulletin
* Caatinga antwren Herpsilochmus sellowi from Brazil is described as new to science in the American journal The Auk
* Taiwan bush-warbler Bradypterus alishanensis is described as new to science in the American journal The Auk
* Scarlet-banded barbet Capito wallacei is described as new to science.

### Rediscoveries

* Four pairs of Chinese crested terns are found breeding on the Matsu Islands, the first sighting anywhere in the world since 1991.

### Taxonomic developments

To be completed

### Ornithologists

**Deaths**

* 12 April - Ronald Lockley (born 1903)

## Europe

### Britain

**Breeding birds**

To be completed

**Migrant and wintering birds**

* Several hundred European honey buzzards pass through during the autumn.

**Rare birds**

* Two zitting cisticolas in Dorset are the third and fourth for Britain.
* A Swinhoe's storm petrel near Aberdeen in July is the first for Scotland and eighth for Britain.
* Britain's first Siberian blue robin is seen in Suffolk during October.
* Britain's first long-tailed shrike is found in the Outer Hebrides in November.

**Other events**

* The British Birdwatching Fair has albatrosses as its theme for the year.

### Ireland

* A blue-winged warbler at Cape Clear in October is the first record for Europe.

### Scandinavia

To be completed

## North America

To be completed

## Asia

To be completed

