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LATEST FBF BREEDING REGISTER


The Foreign Bird Federation Register of Birds Bred in the UK under

Controlled Conditions for the Years 2002-2005 has been available for a while

now (A summary of the previous edition, which covered 2001-2004, can be

found on the inside back cover of the Avicultural Magazine Vol.l 12, No. 1

(2006)). The number of birds listed as having been bred in 2005, 8,858, is

considerably lower than the totals for 2002, 2003 and 2004, but is higher

than that for 2001.


Partridges, pheasants and quail bred in 2005, included 37 Black Francolins

Francolinus francolinus, five Madagascar Partridges Margaroperdix

madagascarensis , 10 Mountain Bamboo Partridges Bambusicola Jytchii,

17 Chinese Bamboo Partridges B. thoracicus , 18 Temminck’s Tragopans

Tragopan temminckii and two Mountain Peacock-Pheasants Polyplectron

inopinatum.


The waterfowl numbers, which look as so they may have been

under reported, include two African White-backed Ducks Thalassornis

leuconotus, four Blue-winged Geese Cyanochen cyanoptera, 31 Marbled

Teal Marmaronetta angustirostris and 18 Hooded Merganser Lophodytes

cucullatus. Only two species of penguin, 16 Humboldt Spheniscus humholdti

and 24 Jackass S. demersus, are listed.


Seven Giant Wood Rails Aramides ypecaha are listed as having been

bred in 2005 and a Buff-breasted Rail Gallirallus philippensis. Fourteen

Pied Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta and nine Blacksmith Plovers Vanellus

armatus head the list of waders bred in 2005. An impressive 21 Inca Terns

Larosterna inca were bred, a Common Guillemot Uria aalge, a Pigeon

Guillemot U. columba and a Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata. I believe

the Common Guillemot and Tufted Puffin are UK first breedings, while the

Pigeon Guillemot was the second to be bred in the UK.


Pigeons and doves bred in 2005 included eight Socorro Doves Zenaida

graysoni , three Sulawesi Ground Doves Gallicolumba tristigmata

bimaculata and a Mindanao Bleeding-Heart G. cringera, but no Luzon

Bleeding-Hearts G. luzonica. Four Rose-crowned Fruit Doves Ptilinopus

regina were bred. The number of parrots listed as having been bred is well

down on the previous three years. Hopefully, this was just a blip, due to under

reporting, for some reason. Those listed include two Moluccan Red Lories

Eos rubra rubra , two Burn Red Lories E. r. cyanonotha , three Black-capped

Lories Lorius lory erythrothorax, 21 African Grey Parrots Psittacus erithacus

erithacus (compared to 736 in 2002, 523 in 2003 and 389 in 2004) and no P

e. timneh . It is hard to believe that just three Blue and Yellow Macaws Ara

ararauna , four Military A militaris militaris and four Red-fronted Macaws



