2009 in birding and ornithology
# 2009 in birding and ornithology

    See also 2008 in birding and ornithology, main events of 2009 and 2010 in birding and ornithology

The year 2009 in birding and ornithology.

## Worldwide

### New species

    See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s

### Ornithologists

**Deaths**

* Bob Scott
* David Snow
* Donald Trounson
* Eric Simms
* Geoff Moon
* Ian Rowley
* James Allen Keast
* Kenneth E. Stager
* Mitchell Durno Murray
* Ravi Sankaran
* Richard Zann
* S. A. Hussain
* William H. Behle

## Europe

### Britain

**Breeding birds**

* A Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) originally ringed on 17 May 1957 at Bardsley Bird Observatory has bred each summer on the island ever since.

**Migrant and wintering birds**

* Britain's largest flock of whiskered terns (Chlidonias hybridus) (eleven) at Willington Gravel Quarry, Derbyshire on 24 April. Eight remained on 25 April and the flock scattered to other midland and north-east sites over the next few days.

**Rare birds**

* Britain's second brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) from 8–10 May on Fair Isle.

**Other events**

* The Ringing Scheme celebrate its centenary, on 17 May, with 36 million birds ringed so far.

### Scandinavia

* Iceland's third bufflehead, a male at Dynjandi from February to April.

## North America

To be completed

