1999 in birding and ornithology


 *  See also 1998 in birding and ornithology, main events of 1999 and 2000 in birding and ornithology

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

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