Rare Bird Alert

The VNHS maintains a rare bird hotline (250) 704-2555 to report rare or interesting sightings of birds within the Greater Victoria region. Please submit your photos to . Please use this phone number to share information about your sighting with other birders.

To summon birders to confirm the sighting of a rare bird, please call Barbara Begg at 250-656-5296, Ed Pellizzon at 250-216-2789, Rick Schortinghuis at 250-885-2454, or Ann Nightingale at 250-514-6450.

If you have seen a rare or unusual bird in the Victoria Checklist area, or a bird outside of its normal date range, please submit a report online or by using this printable form to have your sighting reviewed for inclusion in the Annual Bird Report and the Checklist of Birds for Victoria and Southern Vancouver Island.

Go directly to the latest Rare Bird Alert Transcript at birding.bc.ca , a website managed by VNHS member Kevin Slagboom.

NEW! The Checklist of Birds for Victoria and Southern Vancouver Island is now available online in pdf format.

Rare and uncommon birds from 2008

Rare and uncommon birds from 2007

Rare and uncommon birds from 2006

Click here to go directly to the latest Rare Bird Alert Transcript at birding.bc.ca , a website managed by VNHS member Kevin Slagboom.