1997 in birding and ornithology

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See also 1996 in birding and ornithology, main events of 1997 and 1998 in birding and ornithology

See also Bird species new to science described in the 1990s

• The jocotoco antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi) from Ecuador was discovered in the Cerro Tapichalaca cloud forest.^[1]

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• Only eleven booming bitterns are heard, half as many as the previous year.
• Thousands of young black-legged kittiwakes and other seabirds die in north-east England during storms.
• A pair of red-backed shrikes breed in Northern Scotland.

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• A spectacled warbler at Landguard Point, Suffolk is the second British record
• A semipalmated plover at Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve in June is the second British record
• A male Siberian rubythroat in Dorset in October is the second British record
• A blue-cheeked bee-eater in Shetland in June and July is Britain's eighth, but only the second to be seen by large numbers of observers.
• A western sandpiper in Lothian in July is also Britain's eighth, but only the first to be seen by large numbers of observers.
• A record influx of sixteen desert wheatears occurs between October and December

• The British Birdwatching Fair has Ecuador as its theme for the year.^[2]

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