2012 Accepted Records
January 2012
Pied Wheatear at Aldabra (Michal Šúr)
Highlights for species recorded during the month include:
1. Knob-billed Duck: A new species for Seychelles bringing the total number of species recorded in the country to 258.
2. Pied Wheatear: A first record for the outer islands again from Aldabra for a species only previously recorded on Bird.
3. Little Swift: The 100th species recorded on Frégate making it just one of 5 islands to have achieved this land mark.
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February 2012
An usual record accepted during February dated back to 1936, a published record of a Eurasian Hobby that had previously escaped notice. Chronologically this is the first record for this species.
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Download full details of February 2012 accepted records here.
May 2012
Ortolan Bunting (Catherina Onezia)
Records accepted during May 2012 included the first Ortolan Bunting for the outer islands and the fifth for Seychelles as a whole.
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Download full details of May 2012 records here.
June 2012Accepted records during the month include not one but two new species for Seychelles the world's most eastery record for a third species, Yellow-billed Kite.
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Namaqua Dove (Michal Šúr)
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Red-billed Duck (Joel Souyave)
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October 2012
Comoro Blue Pigeon
(Chris Feare)
Records accepted this month included many of the reports received from Assumption during an ornithological project on the island that continues. These records were circulated to members of SBRC in 2 batches, one of which remains in current circulation. Apart from migrants from outside of Seychelles, accepted records included the first Comoro Blue Pigeon from Assumption for more than a century.
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