2009 in birding and ornithology


 * See also 2008 in birding and ornithology, main events of 2009 and 2010 in birding and ornithology

The year 2009 in birding and ornithology.

New species

 * See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s

Deaths

 * Bob Scott
 * David Snow
 * Donald Trounson
 * Eric Simms
 * Geoff Moon
 * Ian Rowley
 * James Allen Keast
 * Kenneth E. Stager
 * Mitchell Durno Murray
 * Ravi Sankaran
 * Richard Zann
 * S. A. Hussain
 * William H. Behle

Breeding birds

 * A Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) originally ringed on 17 May 1957 at Bardsley Bird Observatory has bred each summer on the island ever since.

Migrant and wintering birds

 * Britain's largest flock of whiskered terns (Chlidonias hybridus) (eleven) at Willington Gravel Quarry, Derbyshire on 24 April. Eight remained on 25 April and the flock scattered to other midland and north-east sites over the next few days.

Rare birds

 * Britain's second brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) from 8–10 May on Fair Isle.

Other events

 * The Ringing Scheme celebrate its centenary, on 17 May, with 36 million birds ringed so far.

Scandinavia

 * Iceland's third bufflehead, a male at Dynjandi from February to April.

North America
To be completed