Birds of Northern Eurasia. Rare Birds Records.

	() © A rare find in the Moscow region
	() © The first find in Mordovia
	() © Rare arctic species
	() © First find in Kabardino-Balkaria
	Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) © Anna Golubeva 2016-02-07 Moscow Region, stl. Krekshino A rare find in the Moscow region
	Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) © Nikolaj Karanov 2015-08-12 Respublika Mordovij.Saransk The first find in Mordovia
	Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) © Georgy Vinogradov 2015-08-30 Kara Sea, 72°21' N 57°53' Е. Rare arctic species
	Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) © Khasan Zhurtov 2013-10-26 s, Kamenomostskoe First find in Kabardino-Balkaria
	() © Far from the main area
	Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) © Gennady Kolotin 2015-10-29 Nizjniy Novgorod Region, Borsk distr. Far from the main area
	Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus) © Andrew Simon 2016-01-26 121 km of the Kyiv-Odesa Highway Regular wintering species. The complexity of detection is due to the specificity of winter habitats. One bird was observed on the side of the Kyiv-Odesa highway in a flock with Yellowhammers.
	Masked Shrike (Lanius nubicus) © Dmitry Kivganov 2004-05-08 Zmiiniy Island The first registration of the Masked Shrike in Ukraine on the Zmiinyi island.
	Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) © Viktor Moroz 2016-01-15 Kiev The third registration in Kyiv region.
	Yellow-headed Wagtail (Motacilla lutea) © Maxim Yakovlev 2007-04-27 Odessa The first observation of the Yellow-headed Wegtail in Ukraine.
	Rueppell's Warbler (Sylvia rueppelli) © Maxim Yakovlev 2006-04-07 Odessa The second registrtion of Rueppell's Warbler in Ukraine.
	Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) © Oleg Formanyuk 2013-03-07 Yuzhny, Odesska oblast. This is the third or the fourth observation of a Sardinian Warbler in Ukraine.
	Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus) © Oleg Formanyuk 2008-10-01 Zmeiny island The first observation of a Dusky Warbler in Ukraine.
	Hume's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus humei) © Oleg Formanyuk 2008-10-20 Zmeiny island The second observation of a Hume's Leaf Warbler in Ukraine and the first on the Zmiimyi island
	Pygmy Cormorant ( Microcarbo pygmaeus) © Petro Hryniuk 2015-10-04 The first observation of Pygmy Cormorant in Rivne region. It can be observable during migrations in the West Ukraine. Breeding in the Azov-Black See region in the deltas of big rivers.
	Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) © Victor Kalinskiy 2014-10-15 Zhitomir oblast. Novgorod-Volonsky raion The first observation of a Yellow-browed Warbler in the Zhytomyr region and in the north of the country in general. The fourth observation on the mainland of Ukraine (including Crimea). At least 6 fixations of species are known on Zmiimyi Island.
	Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) © Sergey Ryzhkov 2015-09-08 Kinburnska Kosa Observation of the Dalmatian Pelican outside the Danube Delta and the Crooked Spit are relatively rare. At the time of publication, only single recordings of this species outside these areas were known.
	Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) © Yuriy Kodrul 2014-11-28 Koblevo One of the few Great black-backed gull registrations in Ukraine. In total, about ten observation are known.
	Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) © Yuriy Kodrul 2014-04-23 Tiligul frith, near Kobelevo In general, a rare bird for the country. <br>Observed on the spring migartion in<br>North-Western Black Sea Coast.<br>Vagrants were observed in Kharkiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Kyiv<br>regions and in the Crimea.
	Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) © Uri Muhin 2015-08-03 Utlyuksky estuary The third or four registration of Great Spotted Cuckoo in Ukraine and the second registration in 2015.
	Red Kite (Milvus milvus) © Konstantin Pismennyi 2015-05-17 Kiev, surrounding forests The first prooved observation of red kite in Ukraine for the last 50-60 years.
	Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) © Viacheslav Kaistro 2015-05-16 Arbatskaya Strelka The second or third registration of Great Spotted Cuckoo in Ukraine.
	Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) © Uri Muhin 2013-11-08 Dnipropetrovsk Vagrant Kittiwakes on the continent are extremely rare. This bird was found by Paul Bredbier and Aleksandr Nastachenko in Dnepropetrovsk on November 8, 2013. Details about the observations of the kittiwake before this case we are not know yet.
	Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides) © Vitalii Kazannyk 2015-05-11 Kyiv region, Yahotyn, ponds The first observation of Squacco Heron in Kyiv region at spring.
	Paddyfield Warbler (Acrocephalus agricola) © Andrew Simon 2014-08-31 Yahotyn The first observation of Paddyfield Warbler in Kyiv region.