Bird Records Accepted for 2012

Species	Number, Age, Sex	Location	County	First date	Last date	Observers
Richard's Pipit	First winter	Killard Point	Down	02-Jan-12	07-Feb-12	Craig Nash
Ross's Gull	Adult winter	Ardglass Harbour	Down	18-Jan-12	01-Feb-12	Tom Ennis, Tony Dodds
Snowy Owl	One	Altikeeragh Nature Reserve	Antrim	08-Feb-12	13-Feb-12	P Dennison
European White-fronted Goose	Adult, 3 juveniles	Anne's Point/Greyabbey, Strangford Lough	Down	04-Feb-12	24-Feb-12	Richard Weyl
Tundra Bean Goose	One	Reedy Flat, Lough Neagh	Armagh	18-Feb-12		Mark Killops
Hoopoe	One	Rathlin Island	Antrim	15-Oct-12	16-Oct-12	Len Murdock
American Buff-bellied Pipit	Two	Corbett's Beach	Down	11-Nov-12	29-Dec-12	Dermot Hughes/per NIBARC
Surf Scoter	First-winter male	Carnlough Harbour	Antrim	31-Oct-12	07-Nov-12	Gary Brown
Dotterel	Adult female	Myroe Levels, Lough Foyle	Londonderry	06-May-12	13-May-12	Per NIBARC
Little Ringed Plover	Adult	Belfast Harbour RSPB Reserve	Down	31-May-12		Jim McKeown
Glossy Ibis	Immature	Mouth of Colebrooke River, Upper Lough Erne	Fermanagh	13-Jun-12	21-Jun-12	Brad Robson
Red-footed Falcon	First-summer male	Slemish Mountain	Antrim	12-Jun-12	19-Jun-12	Neal Warnock
Red-footed Falcon	First-summer male	Montaighs Moss	Antrim	24-Jun-12	27-Jun-12	Per NIBARC
White-rumped Sandpiper	Juvenile	Bann Estuary	Londonderry	18-Aug-12	20-Aug-12	Allen Gillespie
Common Rosefinch	First-year	Copeland Bird Observatory	Down	08-Sep-12		Chris Acheson, David Galbraith
American Buff-bellied Pipit	One	Carrickfergus Castle	Antrim	30-Sep-12	05-Oct-12	Stuart McKee
Red-necked Grebe	One	Between Herring Bay and Greyabbey Bay, Strangford Lough	Down	13-Jan-12	28-Feb-12	Richard Weyl
European White-fronted Goose	35	Between Derrytrasna and Ardmore, Lough Neagh	Armagh	25-Feb-12	14-Mar-12	Ed O'Hara
Snow Goose	Blue morph adult	Goratole, Lough MacNean	Fermanagh	09-Nov-12	30-Mar-13	Brad Robson
American Wigeon	Male	Portmore Lough	Antrim	07-Apr-12	11-Apr-12	Keith Bennett
Long-billed Dowicher	One	Lough Beg	Antrim	03-May-12	03-May-12	Richard Hunter