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Résumé :
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For this, the sixth annual report on accepted records of scarce migrant birds in Britain, covering the year 2000, information was obtained from County and Regional Bird Recorders and local bird reports. The year 2000 was similar in many ways to 1999 for records of the species in this report, although some species were reported in higher numbers than ever before. One of the undoubted highlights was the largest and most extensive movement of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus ever recorded in Britain. In addition, there were notably large numbers of Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea and, like 1999, Nearctic ducks (including Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensis, Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris and Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata). There were also record numbers of both Common Rosefinches Carpodacus erythrinus and Little Buntings Emberiza pusilla in autumn, two species which are undergoing both population and range expansion westwards. By contrast, it was the worst year ever for both Hoopoes Upupa epops and Icterine Warblers Hippolais icterina, and there were disappointingly low numbers of Kentish Plovers Charadrius alexandrinus, Melodious Warblers Hippolais polyglotta, Barred Warblers Sylvia nisoria, Red-breasted Flycatchers Ficedula parva and Ortolan Buntings Emberiza hortulana.
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