title: 1999 in birding and ornithology
text: # 1999 in birding and ornithology
  
      See also 1998 in birding and ornithology, main events of 1999 and 2000 in birding and ornithology
  
  ## Worldwide
  
  ### New species
  
      See also Bird species new to science described in the 1990s
  * The jocotoco antpitta from Ecuador is described.
  
  ### Taxonomic developments
  
  To be completed
  
  ## Europe
  
  ### Britain
  
  **Breeding birds**
  
  * More than 400 red kites fledged across Britain.
  
  **Migrant and wintering birds**
  
  * Large numbers of pomarine skuas are seen off the east coast during October and November.
  
  **Rare birds**
  
  * 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
  * 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)
  
  **Other events**
  
  * The British Birdwatching Fair has Brazil's Atlantic forests as its theme for the year.
  
  ### Scandinavia
  
  To be completed
  
  ## North America
  
  * In April, Louisiana State University student David Kulivan sees a pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area on the Louisiana/Mississippi border.
  
  To be completed
  
  ## Asia
  
  To be completed
  
  