1999 in birding and ornithology
# 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

