1999 in birding and ornithology

See also Bird species new to science described in the 1990s

• The jocotoco antpitta from Ecuador is described.

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• More than 400 red kites fledged across Britain.

• Large numbers of pomarine skuas are seen off the east coast during October and November.

• 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^[1]
• 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)^[2]

• The British Birdwatching Fair has Brazil's Atlantic forests as its theme for the year.^[3]

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