rare birds

BirdLife Australia Rarities Committee

  The BirdLife Australia Rarities Committee (BARC) is responsible for appraising reports of rarities and maintaining a list of rare birds in Australia as well as its external territories and the surrounding seas.   2025 is BARC’s 50th anniversary BARC began life as the Records Appraisal Committee of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union back in