The following records have been accepted after consideration by British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC), Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC) or Moray & Nairn Rarities Committee (MNRC).
Only records relating to 2010 onwards are currently displayed here.
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Hopeman 26-28 September 2017
Shore Lark 1 Burghead 14 November 2017
Green-winged Teal 1 (male) Lossie estuary 12-18 November 2017
Leach’s Petrel 1 Lossiemouth 29 October 2017
Balearic Shearwater 1 Lossiemouth 21 October 2017
Black Tern 1 Lossiemouth 18 September 2017
Long-tailed Skua 2 Lossiemouth 16 September 2017
Little Egret 1 Lossie estuary 26 August 2017
Little Egret 1 Scarffbanks, Muirton etc 3 January-25 March 2017
Icterine Warbler 1 Tomchluich 25 May 2017
Bean Goose (Tundra) 2 Findhorn Bay 8 February 2017
Great Grey Shrike 1 Loch Kirkaldy 28-29 October 2016
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Roseisle Forest 18 October 2016
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Clochan 11 October 2016
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Portknockie 5-8 October 2016
Hobby 1 Tugnet 31 August 2016
Green Woodpecker 1 Lethen 23 July 2016
Common Rosefinch 1 Longmorn 19 June 2016
Hoopoe 1 Tugnet 5 May 2016
Hawfinch 1 Galcantray 28 April 2016
Crane 1 Buckie 21 April 2016
Green-winged Teal 1-2 Loch Flemington 13 March-8 April 2016
Great White Egret 1 Calcots area 2 January-5 March 2016
Crane 2 Craigellachie 11 December 2015
Crane 1 Ardivot 2 November 2015
Firecrest 1 Windyridge 6 November 2015
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Loch Spynie 14 October 2015
Rough-legged Buzzard 1 Eachrach 19 April 2015
Avocet 2 Balormie & Lossie estuary 16 April 2015
Little Egret 1 Kingsteps 23 January-13 March 2015
White-billed Diver 1 Cullen 8 May 2015
White-billed Diver 3 Portknockie 3 May 2014
White-billed Diver 1 Cullen 4-7 May 2014
Bonaparte’s Gull 1 Lossie estuary 4-15 October 2015
Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 Findhorn Bay 29 May 2015
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Spey Bay 20-21 June 2014
Rose-coloured Starling 1 Hopeman 28-29 June 2014
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Portknockie 13 October 2015
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Lower Dallachy 14-15 June 2015
Little Ringed Plover 2 Tugnet 23 May 2015
Yellow Wagtail 1 Garmouth 8 May 2015
Little Ringed Plover 2 Speyslaw 6 May 2015
American Wigeon 1 Cloddach quarry 30 November-22 December 2014
Bearded Tit 5 Loch Spynie 19 November 2014
American Wigeon 1 Tugnet 11 May 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Lossie estuary 12 July 2015
Mediterranean Gull 1 Lossie estuary 20 October 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Lossie estuary 19 October 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Lossie estuary 12 October 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Nairn 12 October 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Lossie estuary 4 October 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Lossie estuary 1 October 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Dipple 5 March 2014
Golden Oriole 1 Grange Green 2 June 2015
Little Ringed Plover 1 Findhorn Bay 4 May 2015
Green Woodpecker 1 Delnapot 13 April 2015
Black Redstart 1 Findhorn 24 March 2015
Sabine’s Gull 1 Lossie estuary 28 September 2014
Long-tailed Skua 1 Lossiemouth 1 October 2014
Sabine’s Gull 1 Lossiemouth 2 October 2014
Long-tailed Skua 1 Lossiemouth 15 November 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Kingsteps 28 November 2014
White-billed Diver 1 Burghead 2-6 April 2014
Cory’s Shearwater 1 Lossiemouth 14 August 2014
Cory’s Shearwater 1 Lossiemouth 29 July 2014
Green-winged Teal 1 Lossie estuary 16 January-14 February 2015
Rough-legged Buzzard 1 Cawdor estate 4-5 December 2014
Red-necked Grebe 1 Burghead Bay 29 October 2014
Long-tailed Skua 1 Lossiemouth 15 October 2014
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Covesea 9 October 2014
Little Ringed Plover 2 Tugnet 10 July 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 Spey estuary 3 October 2014
Bean Goose 2 Portknockie 23 January 2014
Bean Goose 1 Findhorn Bay 4 October 2013
Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Lossiemouth 8 October 2014
Red-breasted Flycatcher 1 Lossiemouth 8 October 2014
Black Redstart 1 Lossiemouth 7 October 2014
Sabine’s Gull 1 (juvenile) Spey estuary 21 September 2014
Pectoral Sandpiper 1 (juvenile) Delnies 6 September 2014
Pectoral Sandpiper 1 (adult) Scarffbanks 6 September 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 (1st winter) Lossie estuary 9 September 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 (2nd winter) Lossie estuary 24 August 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 (1st summer) Lossie estuary 12 July 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 (1st winter) Loch Spynie 23 March 2014
Hobby 1 Findhorn Bay 19 June & 2 July 2014
Mediterranean Gull 1 (adult) Nairn 1 February 2014
Grey Phalarope 1 Nairn 30 January 2014
Little Egret 1 Loch Flemington 12 January 2014
Sabine’s Gull 1 (adult) Lossiemouth 24 October 2013
Hawfinch 1 Kingston 11 December 2012
Mediterranean Gull 1 (adult) Lossiemouth 7 October 2013
Pectoral Sandpiper 1 (juvenile) Spey estuary 18 September 2013
Spoonbill 1 (adult) Spey estuary 18 June 2013
Crane 1 Forres 17, 19 & 23 June 2013
Crane 1 Forres 11 June 2013
Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Netherton (Findhorn Bay) 2 June 2013
Little Egret 2 (adults) Portgordon 30 May 2013
Long-tailed Skua 1 (adult) Portknockie 23 May 2013
Long-tailed Skua 1 (adult) Lossiemouth 24 May 2013
Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Findhorn Bay 8 September 2012
Black Tern 1 Findhorn 30 August 2012
Red-necked Grebe 1 Kingston 19 February 2013
Bittern 1 Loch Spynie 3 March 2013
Bittern 1 Loch Spynie 24 January 2013
Tundra Bean Goose 1 Netherton (Findhorn Bay) 1 January 2013
Red-necked Grebe 1 Lossie estuary 15 December 2012
Lapland Bunting 1 (female) Moray 31 May 2012
Crane 1 Newton (Alves) 30 April 2012
Mediterranean Gull 1 (adult) Burghead 7 October 2012
White-tailed Eagle 1 (adult) Ballindalloch 6 October 2012
Mediterranean Gull 1 (adult) Burghead 26 September 2012
Sabine’s Gull 1 (adult) Lossiemouth 15 September 2012
Hobby 1 Darnaway 6 August 2012
Black Tern 1 (adult) Tugnet 6-7 July 2012
White-billed Diver 2 (1 adult, 1 sub-adult) Burghead 12 April-8 May 2012
Great Grey Shrike 1 Archiestown 12 December 2011
White-rumped Sandpiper 1 (adult) Hopeman 23 September 2011
White-billed Diver 3 (1 adult, 2 unaged) Burghead 20 April-8 May 2011
Crane 1 Chapelton (Forres) 2-25 April 2011
Great White Egret 1 Tugnet & Bogmoor 27 November 2010-22 February 2011
Great White Egret 1 Tugnet & Bogmoor 9 January-1 May 2010
White-billed Diver 2 (adult, immature) 14 April 2010
White-billed Diver 2 (adults) Burghead 2 May 2010
White-billed Diver 1 off Buckie 13 March 2012
Purple Heron 1 Loch Spynie 19-25 April 2011
Mediterranean Gull 1 adult Lossiemouth 10 January 2012
Little Egret 1 Cloddach 20 November 2011 into 2012
Brunnich’s Guillemot 1 Burghead 17 November 2011
European White-fronted Goose 57 Gilston 13 November 2011
Tundra Bean Goose 36 Gilston 13 November 2011
European White-fronted Goose 15 Tugnet 12 November 2011
Taiga Bean Goose 4 Tugnet 12 November 2011
Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Lossie estuary 2-6 October 2011
Lapland Bunting 1 Kingston 29 September 2011
Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Findhorn Bay 25 September 2011
Sabine’s Gull 1 juvenile Lossiemouth 18 September 2011
American Wigeon 1 male Kingston 11 September 2011
Long-tailed Skua 1 juvenile Portknockie 29 August 2011
Temminck’s Stint 1 Kingston 14-15 June 2011
Golden Oriole 1 male Loch Spynie 19 May 2011
Black Redstart 1 male Portknockie 4 May 2011
Yellow Wagtail 1 Nairn 24 April 2011
King Eider 1 male Burghead 2-22 January 2011
Great White Egret 1 Bogmoor/Tugnet 27 November 2010 into 2011
Green-winged Teal 1 male Spynie canal 13 November 2010 into 2011
Lapland Bunting 6 Inchrory 10 November 2010
King Eider 1 adult male Burghead 6 October 2010 into 2011
Black Tern 1 Lossiemouth 23 September 2010
Black Tern 1 Lossiemouth 15 September 2010
Avocet 1 Findhorn Bay 11-12 September 2010
Hobby 2 Darnaway 31 July 2010
Roseate Tern 1 Garmouth 7-8 June 2010
Little Ringed Plover 2 east Moray 21-30 May 2010
Little Ringed Plover 1 west Moray 20 May 2010
Crane 2 Loch Spynie 20 May 2010
Green-winged Teal 1 male Loch Spynie 16 January-12 February 2010