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Welcome to Seychelles Bird Records Committee

        Your number one source of information on the birds of Seychelles
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Seychelles EEZ spans 1,332,031 sq km. It extends 200 nautical miles from the nearest island except on the southern boundary where restricted by territorial waters of (from west to east) Tanzania, Comoros, France (Ile Glorieuses), Madagascar, France (Tromelin) and Mauritius (Agalega)

SOME RECENT SIGHTINGS

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April-October 2018: Great Cormorant at Bird (Adrian Skerrett)
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October 2018: Peregrine at Aldabra (Brent Stephenson)
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November 2018: Eurasian Bittern at Cousine (Stuart & Bronwyn Dunlop)
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March 2016: Black-naped Tern nest & Greater Crested Tern creche (Adrian Skerrett)
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May 2016: Whiskered Tern at Providence, Mahe (Adrian Skerrett)


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 Currently there are no previous breeding records though unpublished evidence exists.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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