EATON, M. E. & the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (2023)
Non-native breeding birds in the UK, 2015–20.
British Birds 116 (September 2023): 486–507.
Abstract:
This report covers records of rare, non-native birds breeding in the UK during the six years 2015–20. A total of 22 species were reported as showing signs of breeding and 18 of these were confirmed breeding. Perhaps surprisingly, only one species, Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina, appears to be increasing, whereas eight species appear to have declined. Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis and Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus are nearly extinct in the UK due to government-led control programmes, and the last male Lady Amherst’s Pheasant Chrysolophus amherstiae died in 2016, apparently ending the 120-year history of this species breeding in the UK.
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