Birds of Northern Eurasia. Rare Birds Records.

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	King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) © Andrey Semenov 2020-11-08 A new vagrant species of Moscow and the Moscow Region. First seen on 11/07/2020 by Alexandra Meshcheryakova.
	Pallas's Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) © Yuriy Kodrul 2020-10-17 Odessa Oblast, city of Chornomorsk A rare vagrant species. Observations are known on Zmiiny Island in the 1980s and 2008, and in Odesa in 2016.<br>The bird was found by K. Pylypiuk.
	Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) © Yevgen Chernolyev 2020-10-17 Odesa A rare vagrant species. This autumn it was observed twice in Odesa region: on October 17 on Luzanivsky beach in Odesa by Yevhen Chernolev, on November 1 in the lower part of the Tнligul estuary, the bird was found by Olena Fomina. 22nd and 23rd observations of the species in Ukraine.
	Great Skua (Stercorarius skua) © Sergo Travelian 2020-10-19 Kyiv Reservoir The first photo of the species in Ukraine, the second observation for the Kyiv region and the sixth in the country as a whole.
	Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) © Yuriy Kodrul 2020-10-03 Kherson Oblast A rare migratory species in Ukraine, in the Crimea it nests irregularly. The second registration in Ukraine during the year (the first meeting on 15.08.2020, one bird was observed by M. Sakh near the village of Kyrylivka, Zaporizhia region).
	Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) © Kostiantyn Pylypiuk 2020-10-03 Regular vagrant species. At least 20 registrations are known, mostly from Odesa region. This year 10 observations: in Odesa region - on September 26 near the village of Chabanka (P. Panchenko), on September 27 in Bilyaivsky forestry near the village of Troitske and on October 3 in the town of Chornomorsk (K. Pylypyuk), on October 7 in the village of Nadlymanske (K. Pylypyuk and Y. Kodrul) October 18 in Odessa (O. Burkovsky); October 4 in the Dnipropetrovsk region in the Samara forest (O. Nastachenko); in the Mykolayiv region on October 10-11 and October 18 in the village of Chornomorka (probably the same bird) and on October 19 near the town of Ochakiv - K. Redinov
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	Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) © Mikhail Kalagin 2020-09-28 The first photographic record of the species in the Ulyanovsk region
	Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) © Yevgen Chernolyev 2020-08-22 Kherson oblast Rare vagrant. During August 2020, several observers were noted in the Kherson region. The first observation on August 9, 2020 by Oleksandr Burkovsky, Yevhen Chernolyev, Tetiana Chernolyeva and Nicola Zmievskiy.
	Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) © Maria-Adel Bradbeer 2020-08-04 Dnipro The first observation for Ukraine and yhe 17-th for Western Palearctic. The Bird was photographed by Maria-Adel Bradbeer over the city of Dnipro.
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	Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) © Dmitriy Shevtsov 2020-07-24 North Osetia, Kardzhin New breeding species RNO-A
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	White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala) © Dmitriy Shevtsov 2018-11-25 KBR, Tambukan New species in KBR
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	Moustached Warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon) © Dmitriy Shevtsov 2020-07-19 North Osetia, Kardzhin A new species of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. Probably breeds on Brutovsky fish ponds.
	Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus) © Marach Igor 2020-07-03 The fifth confirmed observation in Ukraine and the second in a row in the Kyiv region (the previous one took place on November 15, 2019 at the Kyiv reservoir).
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	Eurasian Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) © Dmitriy Shevtsov 2020-06-24 North Osetia, Kardzhin A new species of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. Probably a breeding species.
	Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) © Andrey Mis\'kov 2020-06-13 Rare vagrant. Over the last 10 years, it has been observed in Odesa, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy regions and the Crimea.
	Spur-winged Lapwing (Vanellus spinosus) © Maxim Yakovlev 2020-05-28 Lake Katlabuh, Odessa region Rare vagrant species. The Third observation in Ukraine and the third within the Odesa region. Previous observations took place in 1837 and 2019. The Bird was found by M. Yakovlev and O. Haidash.
	Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides) © Pavel Panchenko 2020-05-28 Odesa region, Yuzhy tawn. A rare migratory bird in the south of Ukraine. The first observation in Odesa region.
	Siberian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus) © Nikola Zmievskiy 2020-05-27 Berislav district. Kherson region. The Westernmost observation and the first on the territory of the Right Bank steppe in the nesting season, a brood was observed. Actively settles in the western direction, the nearest known places of regular nesting are in the south of the Kherson region.
	Blyth's Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) © Natalia Honcharyk 2020-05-26 Rare migratory and nesting bird in northern Ukraine. The third observation in 2020 for the country and the first from Kyiv region (also observed by V. Kazannyk in Sumy region and I. Kozytsky in Kharkiv region).
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	Black-headed Wagtail (Motacilla feldegg) © Vyacheslav Yusupov 2020-05-14 Krasnogorka New species of the Nizhny Novgorod region
	Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) © Family Kuzhel 2020-05-11 Heorhiivka, Donetsk obl. Vagrant species, a known case of nesting in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. From 2018 on the mainland the species is observed annually.
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	Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) © Andrei Kiselev 2020-05-03 Ozery.Moscow region First registration in the Moscow region
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	Eurasian Stone Curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) © Galina Katanova 2020-05-13 Vologda region A new species of the Volgograd region
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	Bimaculated Lark (Melanocorypha bimaculata) © Galina Katanova 2020-05-10 Vologda region A new species of the Volgograd region
	Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) © Yevgen Chernolyev 2020-05-04 Odesa oblast Rare vagrant species. The first observation at the Tylihulskyi lyman. A flock of 5 birds was observed by Pavlo Panchenko near the village of Koshary on May 3. On May 2, Dmytro Milyutin photographed another flock of 16 birds near the village of Kayiry.
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	Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) © Evgeniy Sofronov 2020-04-28 A new species of the Ulyanovsk region
	Eastern Bonelli's Warbler (Phylloscopus orientalis) © Kostiantyn Pylypiuk 2020-04-18 Odesa Region, Ovidiopol District, SW of the Dobrooleksandrivka village The second observation for the Odesa Region and the second observation in Ukraine (for the taxon Ph.orientalis).
	Eastern Subalpine Warbler (Sylvia cantillans) © Eleonora Sindeyeva 2020-04-17 Dnipro, Peremoga-6, prospekt Geroyiv A Rarе bird from the Mediterranian area. More than ten observations are known for the south of Ukraine (including unpublished ones). The first observation for the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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