SOME RECENT SIGHTINGS
Latest updates
May 2016: New colonies of Greater Crested Tern and Black-naped Tern discovered at Bancs Providence
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November 2016: African Spoonbill has been accepted to THE SEYCHELLES LIST as a new species record for Seychelles.
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February 2017: Black-headed Bunting has been accepted to THE SEYCHELLES LIST as a new species record for Seychelles.
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March 2017: The fifth report of SBRC has been published in Bull ABC and can be downloaded from PUBLICATIONS (5 year reports). The first country report of Greater Painted-snipe has also been published in the journal and can be downloaded from PUBLICATIONS (first country records)
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April 2017: Greater Crested Tern breeds in small numbers at Farquhar. Currently there are no previous breeding records though unpublished evidence exists. A new scientific paper is planned summarising information.
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May 2017: Franklin's Gull has been accepted to THE SEYCHELLES LIST as a new record for Seychelles.
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June 2017: A Sooty Tern ringed as a chick at Desnoeufs returned to breed 16 years later. See RINGING RECORDS for more details.
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August 2018: THE SEYCHELLES LIST has been updated
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November 2018: New paper published: First population estimate of breeding Greater Crested Tern on Cosmoledo Atoll,
Seychelles by Josep Nogués, Ariadna Fernández, Alex Quatre & Adrian Skerrett
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