Irish Rare Birds Committee

Announcements by the IRBC on issues relevant to birdwatchers with an interest in rare birds in Ireland are listed on this page.
The full list of notes published by the Irish Records Panel and the IRBC in Irish Birds and elsewhere are listed here.

Year	Announcement	To View
End of announcements
2021	Dissemination of decisions in relation to select Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 records.	Click here
2018	'Heard only' American Golden Plover and Hawfinch records in 2017 & 2018.	Click here
2018	IRBC Membership Change July 2018.	Click here
2018	IRBC Membership Change February 2018.	Click here
2017	Bearded Reedlings December 2017.	Click here
2017	IRBC Membership Changes November 2017.	Click here
2017	Batch Manager job title amended November 2017.	Click here
2017	IRBC Appendix List Changes March 2017.	Click here
2017	IRBC Adopt IOC World List as Taxonomic Authority March 2017.	Click here
2017	IRBC Membership Changes February 2017.	Click here
2016	IRBC Membership Changes December 2016.	Click here
2016	Bulwer’s Petrel Bulweria bulwerii: review of Irish record and claimed records.	Click here
2016	‘Lesser’ Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica/fulva – a review of 20th century records.	Click here
2016	Changes to the Irish List, March 2016.	Click here
2016	Red-breasted Goose upgraded to Category A of the Irish List, March 2016.	Click here
2016	Provisional List spreadsheet version discontinued February 2016.	Click here
2015	Changes to the Irish List March 2015.	Click here
2015	Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens: review of 20th century records.	Click here
2015	IRBC Membership Change March 2015.	Click here
2015	IRBC Membership Change February 2015.	Click here
2015	IRBC Membership Change January 2015.	Click here
2014	IRBC Membership Change May 2014.	Click here
2014	Changes to the Irish List March 2014.	Click here
2014	IRBC Appendix List Changes 2011.	Click here
2014	IRBC Canada and Cackling Goose Review.	Click here
2013	Interim Irish Rare Bird Report discontinued.	Click here
2013	IRBC Membership Change April 2013.	Click here
2013	Changes to the Irish List April 2013.	Click here
2013	Change to the vernacular name of the Hydrobatidae on the Irish List.	Click here
2013	2011 Irish Rare Bird Report Final Version, February 2013.	Click here
2012	2011 Irish Rare Bird Report Interim Version, October 2012.	Click here
2012	2009 and 2010 Irish Rare Bird Reports Final Versions.	Click here
2012	Changes to the Irish List February 2012.	Click here
2012	IRBC Appendix List Changes 2011.	Click here
2011	2010 Irish Rare Bird Report Interim Version, December 2011.	Click here
2011	2009 Irish Rare Bird Report Interim Version, October 2011.	Click here
2011	2008 Irish Rare Bird Report Final Version, May 2011.	Click here
2011	Change to the Irish List, April 2011.	Click here
2011	New email contact for the IRBC Photo Archive.	Click here
2011	IRBC Appendix List Changes 2010.	Click here
2011	IRBC Membership Change February 2011.	Click here
2010	IRBC Membership Change December 2010.	Click here
2010	Changes to the Irish List October 2010.	Click here
2010	Irish Rare Bird Report Publishing Policy 2010 (policy discontinued from May 2013).	Click here
2010	IRBC Membership Change January 2010.	Click here
2010	IRBC Appendix List Changes 2010.	Click here
2010	Changes to the Irish List January 2010.	Click here
2009	IRBC Membership Change December 2009.	Click here
2009	Canada / Cackling Goose Review - IRBC Request.	Click here
2009	Canada Goose split and addition of Cackling Goose to the Irish List.	Click here
2009	Forthcoming Change of IRBC Secretary in 2010.	Click here
2009	IRBC Membership Change April 2009.	Click here
2009	IRBC Appendix List Changes 2009.	Click here
2008	Changes to the Irish List 2008.	Click here
2008	IRBC Membership Changes 2008.	Click here
2007	Changes to the Irish List 2007.	Click here
2005	Changes to the Irish List 2005.	Click here
2005	Changes in the IRBC Rarity List and a review of record assessment policy.	Click here
2004	Bonelli's Warbler Review.	Click here
2004	IRBC Membership Change 2004.	Click here
2004	Herring Gulls - taxonomic changes adopted by the IRBC.	Click here
2004	Changes to the Irish List 2004.	Click here
2004	Change in the Format of Rare Bird Recording.	Click here
2003	Olivaceous Warbler Review.	Click here
2003	1969 Blyth's Reed Warbler Review.	Click here
2003	Cetti's Warbler Review.	Click here
2003	Thayer's Gull Review.	Click here
2003	Little Crake Review.	Click here
2002	Changes to the Irish List 2002.	Click here
2001	Booted Eagle at various localities in Ireland and UK between March 1999 and June 2000.	Click here
2001	Red Breasted Goose in Wexford between October 1997 and March 1998.	Click here
2000	Removal of description species and subspecies 1999 & 2000.	Click here
2000	Little Shearwater Review.	Click here
2000	Lesser Short-toed Lark Review.	Click here
1999	IRBC 5th Open Forum, Wexford.	Click here
1999	IRBC Membership Changes 1998 & 1999.	Click here
1998	1995 and 1996 Greater Flamingo Review.	Click here
1998	Review of Albatross Records.	Click here
1998	Northern Ireland Birdwatchers' Association.	Click here
1998	Removal of description species (Goosander and migrant Wood Warbler).	Click here
1997	IRBC Membership Change 1997.	Click here
1996	IRBC 4th Open Forum, Wicklow.	Click here
1996	Removal of description species (Black-throated Diver).	Click here
1996	Irish Rarities in the BBRC Report.	Click here
1996	The British and Irish List.	Click here
1996	IRBC Membership Change 1996.	Click here
1995	Summary list of species no longer requiring descriptions.	Click here
1995	Corn Bunting.	Click here
1995	Herring Gull Taxonomy.	Click here
1994	Review of Previously accepted Irish records of Western Sandpiper.	Click here
1994	IRBC Membership Change 1994.	Click here
1984	Review of Irish Records of Greenish Warblers.	Click here