Species added to the Description List (Eastern Glamorgan) & date of up-grade
Lapland Bunting [1986]*
Little Egret [1993]*
Honey Buzzard [1993]*
Long-tailed Skua [1993]*
Ring-billed Gull [1993]*
Iceland Gull [1993]*
Yellow-browed Warbler [1993]*
Slavonian Grebe [2001]
Water Pipit [2001]
Richard's Pipit [2005]*
Bewick's Swan [2010]
Turtle Dove [2010]
Whooper Swan [2011]
Greater White-fronted Goose [2011]
Hooded Crow [2011] This species ceased to be included in the D-List 2005, however it is national rarity in Wales, and has been up-graded from 1st May 2011 [GRC].
Tree Sparrow [2013] Now extinct as a breeding species in East Glamorgan. 0-5 records in last few years [GRC].
Ruddy Duck [2010 & 2013] Now very rare in GB due to national cull.
(*: Previously a Welsh Rarity)
Egyptian Goose [2015] Reinstated to VC41 List
Downgraded from Rare/Scarce in EG
Ruddy Duck [1981] - reinstated 2013
Black-tailed Godwit [1981]
Spotted Redshank [1981]
Red-legged Partridge [1982]
Hen Harrier [1982]
Little Stint [1982]
Brent Goose [1986]
(Dark & Light bellied races)
Greylag Goose [1988]
Eider [1988]
Red-throated Diver [1989]
Little Ringed Plover [1989]
Curlew Sandpiper [1989]
Mediterranean Gull [1989]
Firecrest [1989]
Common Crossbill [1989]
Greater White-fronted Goose [1994] - reinstated 2011
Mandarin Duck [1994]
Red-crested Pochard [1994]
Smew [1994]
Quail [1994]
Great Northern Diver [1994]
Red-throated Diver [1994]
Slavonian Grebe [1994] - reinstated 2001
European Storm Petrel [1994]
Little Egret [1994]
Hobby [1994]
Water Pipit [1994] - all non-esturine records still required
Hawfinch [1994]
Northern Goshawk [1999]
Osprey [2001]
Red Kite [2001]
Dartford Warbler [2004]
Hooded Crow [2005] - reinstated, see above
Cetti's Warbler [2006]
Red-billed Chough [2006]
Great Bittern [2011]
Marsh Harrier [2014]
Snow Bunting [2014] - Provisional
Up-graded from Glamorgan Rarity to Welsh Rarity
Buff-breasted Sandpiper [1990]
Pectorial Sandpiper [1993]
Wood Lark [1993] - Now dropped as WRP species 2013
Shore Lark [1993]
Common Nightingale [1998]
Red-backed Shrike [1998]
Corn Crake [1999]
Common (Mealy) Redpoll [2005]
Bearded Tit [2007] - East Glamorgan remains a dispersal county per WRP, records to GRC
Golden Oriole [2007]
Corn Bunting [2008]
Ring-billed Gull [2011]*
(*= one year trial period, now fully reinstated as WRP species 2013)
Species Removed from Glamorgan List during last Review 1994
Egyptian Goose [Reinstated 2015]
Snow Goose
Ring-necked Parakeet
Species Removed by BBRC for VC41
Redhead
1968 = First reference to a list for Unusual Species for Glamorgan that requires a description.
Note: Since the formation of the GRC in Oct. 2009 the D-List is now for all Glamorgan. The only regional variations where descriptions are wavered:
Velvet Scoter in West Glamorgan only
Slavonian Grebe at Whiteford Point & in the Burry Estuary (VC41)
Puffin sites between Whiteford Pt to Oxwich Pt. including Worm's Head
Water Pipit at all Estuarine sites West & East
Although the GRC may ask for details of the above at the sites mentioned, if it is deemed necessary to do so.
Species added to the Glamorgan List (Year & UA)
2015: Pallid Swift (NPT) - pending BBRC
2015: Great Spotted Cuckoo (RCT) - pending BBRC
2014: Caspian Gull (Vale of Glam.)
2013: [Kumlien's Gull] (Vale of Glam.) EG only
2012: Black-headed Bunting (Gower)
2011: Isabelline Wheatear (Gower)
2011: Black Stork (Bridgend)
2010: Bobolink (NPT)
2010: Marsh Warbler (Cardiff)
2009: Gyr Falcon (Gower)
2008: Lesser Scaup (Vale of Glam.)
2008: Greater Short-toed Lark (Bridgend)
2008: Black-winged Stilt (Bridgend)
2007: European Roller (Gower)
2007: Cattle Egret (Bridgend)
2007: [Siberian Chiffchaff] (Bridgend)
2005: Black-throated Thrush (Swansea)
2003: [Black Brant] (Gower)
2002: Ross's Gull (Swansea) & 2014 (NPT)
1998: Franklins's Gull (NPT)
1998: Ivory Gull (Vale of Glam.)
1996: Penduline Tit (Bridgend)
1995: Great White Egret (Bridgend)
1994: Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Cardiff)
1993: Melodious Warbler (Vale of Glam.)
1992: Red-throated Pipit (Bridgend)
1990: Semi-palmated Sandpiper (Vale of Glam.)
1989: Ring-necked Duck (Gower)
1989: Long-billed Dowitcher (Cardiff)
1989: Desert Wheatear (Swansea)
1988: Common Crane (Bridgend)
1988: Laughing Gull (Bridgend)
1987: Gull-billed Tern (Gower)
1987: Savi's Warbler (Gower)
1987: Pied-billed Grebe (Bridgend)
1987: Bonaparte's Gull (Bridgend)
1986: Glossy Ibis (Cardiff)
1984: Sociable Plover (NPT)
1982: Balearic Sheawater (Vale of Glam.)
1982: Tawny Pipit (Bridgend)
1982: Little Whimbrel (Bridgend)
1981: Green-winged Teal (Bridgend)
1981: Yellow-browed Warbler (Bridgend)
1979: Black Kite (Cardiff)
1979: Royal Tern (Bridgend)
1979: Barred Warbler (Bridgend)
1978: Icterine Warbler (Vale of Glam.)
1977: Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Gower)
1977: Cetti's Warbler (Gower)
1976: Baillon's Crake (Vale of Glam.)
1976: Lapland Bunting (Vale of Glam.)
1976: Surf Scoter (Swansea)
1975: American Wigeon (Bridgend)
1975: Cory's Shearwater (Bridgend)
1974: Whiskered Tern (Swansea)
1973: Alpine Swift (Cardiff)
1973: Ring-billed Gull (Swansea)
1973: Spotted Sandpiper (Gower)
1973: Great Shearwater (Gower)
1973: Collared Pratincole (Gower)
1973: Caspian Tern (Swansea)
1972: European Serin (Bridgend)
1972: Baird's Sandpiper (Vale of Glam.)
1972: Shore Lark (Cardiff)
1972: Snowy Owl (Cardiff)
1972: Least Sandpiper (Vale of Glam.)
1970: Bluethroat (Bridgend)
1970: Temminck's Stint (Vale of Glam.)
1969: Ruddy Duck (Bridgend)
1969: Dartford Warbler (Swansea)
1967: Long-tailed Skua (Gower)
1967: Richard's Pipit (Vale of Glam.)
1965: Little Ringed Plover (NPT)
1965: Bearded Tit (Bridgend)
1965: European Bee-eater (Vale of Glam.)
1965: Purple Heron (NPT)
1964: Mediterranean Gull (Vale of Glam/Bridgend)
1963: Sooty Shearwater (Gower)
1962: Wood Sandpiper (Bridgend)
1962: Ortolan Bunting (Vale of Glam.)
1962: Aquatic Warbler (Bridgend)
Pre Glamorgan Reports
[Published in Ornithological Notes, Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society]
1961: Water Pipit (Cardiff)
1960: Pectoral Sandpiper (Bridgend)
1957: Sabine's Gull (Gower)
1957: White-rumped Sandpiper (Swansea)
1957: Little Egret (Gower)
1957: Little Bunting (Gower)
1956: Black-crowned Night Heron (Gower)
1956: Black Guillemot (Gower)
1956: Red-necked Phalarope (Bridgend)
1955: Roseate Tern (Vale of Glam.)
1954: Squacco Heron (Bridgend)
1954: Bridled Tern (Gower)
1953: Lesser Yellowlegs (Gower)
1947: Woodchat Shrike (Swansea)
1943: Red-breasted Flycatcher (Cardiff)
1942: Eurasian Dotterel (Rhondda/Cynon/Taf)
1940: Red-crested Pochard (Cardiff)
1935: Montagu's Harrier (Gower)
1934: Avocet (Vale of Glam.)
1931: Eurasian Spoonbill (Gower)
1921: Black-necked Grebe (Bridgend)
1920: Snow Bunting (Bridgend) ?
1911: Pink-footed Goose (Bridgend)
1905: Long-tailed Duck (Cardiff) ?
1903: Red-footed Falcon (Cardiff)
1902: Great Grey Shrike (Vale of Glam.) ?
1902: Great Bustard (Swansea)
1900: White Stork (Gower)
1898: Iceland Gull (Cardiff/Vale of Glam.)
1897: Corn Bunting (Vale of Glam.) ?
1897: Twite (Vale of Glam.)
1896: Grey Phalarope (Vale of Glam.)
1892: Glaucous Gull (Cardiff)
1892: Smew (Cardiff)
1892: White-winged Black Tern (Cardiff)
1890: Red-necked Grebe (Cardiff)
1890: Red-backed Shrike (Cardiff) ?
1890: Hobby (Cardiff) ?
1889: Leach's Storm-petrel (Vale of Glam.)
1888: Sora Rail (Cardiff)
1888: Pallas's Sandgrouse (Vale of Glam./Gower)
1888: Kentish Plover (Bridgend)
1885: Little Bustard (Vale of Glam.)
1885: Stone-curlew (Swansea)
1883: Great Skua (Cardiff/Vale of Glam.)
1880: Eurasian Wryneck (Bridgend) ?
1880: Cirl Bunting (Cardiff/Vale of Glam.) ?
1880: Great Northern Diver (Cardiff) ?
1877: Common Quail (Vale of Glam.) ?
1877: Great Bittern (Cardiff) ?
1876: European Honey-buzzard (Caerphilly)
1870: Spotted Nutcracker (Swansea)
Pre CNS
1864: Golden Eagle (Gower) ?
1860: Common (Mealy) Redpoll (Cardiff)
1859: Bohemian Waxwing (Cardiff) ?
1859: Little Bittern (Cardiff)
1858: Eurasian Golden Oriole (Vale of Glam.)
1856: Little Auk (Vale of Glam.) ?
1850: Pomarine Skua (Cardiff)
1850: Eurasian Marsh Harrier (Bridgend/Vale of Glam.) ?
1848: Ferruginous Duck (Gower) ?
1841: Osprey (Vale of Glam.) ?
1840: Red-billed Chough (Vale of Glam.) ?
1839: Little Crake (NPT)
1836: Hoopoe (Vale of Glam.) ?
1836: Rosy Starling (Swansea)
1810: White-tailed Eagle (NPT)
1800: Spotted Crake (Swansea) ?
? = First known record, however possibly recorded in Glamorgan before but never published
[brackets] = Race of nominate species
Up-dated 9/04/2015, 14/11/2015
