2010 in birding and ornithology


 * See also 2009 in birding and ornithology, main events of 2010 and 2011 in birding and ornithology

The year 2010 in birding and ornithology.

New species

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


 * Limestone leaf warbler, Phylloscopus calciatilis:
 * Fenwick's antpitta or Urrao antpitta, Grallaria fenwickorum:
 * Socotra buzzard, Buteo socotraensis:
 * Willard's sooty boubou, Laniarius willardi:
 * Rock tapaculo, Scytalopus petrophilus:

Breeding birds
Purple heron (Ardea purpurea) successfully bred in the UK for the first time on the Dungeness peninsula in Kent.

North America
To be completed