title: 2000 in birding and ornithology
text: # 2000 in birding and ornithology
  
  ## Worldwide
  
  ### New species
  
      See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s
  * Foothill elaenia Myiopagis olallai from Ecuador and Peru is described as new to science in The Wilson Bulletin
  * Caatinga antwren Herpsilochmus sellowi from Brazil is described as new to science in the American journal The Auk
  * Taiwan bush-warbler Bradypterus alishanensis is described as new to science in the American journal The Auk
  * Scarlet-banded barbet Capito wallacei is described as new to science.
  
  ### Rediscoveries
  
  * Four pairs of Chinese crested terns are found breeding on the Matsu Islands, the first sighting anywhere in the world since 1991.
  
  ### Taxonomic developments
  
  To be completed
  
  ### Ornithologists
  
  **Deaths**
  
  * 12 April - Ronald Lockley (born 1903)
  
  ## Europe
  
  ### Britain
  
  **Breeding birds**
  
  To be completed
  
  **Migrant and wintering birds**
  
  * Several hundred European honey buzzards pass through during the autumn.
  
  **Rare birds**
  
  * Two zitting cisticolas in Dorset are the third and fourth for Britain.
  * A Swinhoe's storm petrel near Aberdeen in July is the first for Scotland and eighth for Britain.
  * Britain's first Siberian blue robin is seen in Suffolk during October.
  * Britain's first long-tailed shrike is found in the Outer Hebrides in November.
  
  **Other events**
  
  * The British Birdwatching Fair has albatrosses as its theme for the year.
  
  ### Ireland
  
  * A blue-winged warbler at Cape Clear in October is the first record for Europe.
  
  ### Scandinavia
  
  To be completed
  
  ## North America
  
  To be completed
  
  ## Asia
  
  To be completed
  
  