Deaths

• Reg Johnson
• Pauline Neura Reilly
• Mike Imber
• Evgeny Kurochkin
• Don Merton
• Bradley C. Livezey

Rare birds

• A blue-winged warbler on Corvo at Ribeira da Ponte, a first for The Azores and second for the Western Palearctic.^[14]
• A female Amur falcon at Criação Velha, Pico on 30 November will be a first for the Azores if accepted.^[15]

Breeding birds

• Eight pairs of spoonbills fledged 14 young at Holkham NNR, Norfolk, the second year spoonbills fledged here.^[16]
• Norway donated sixteen white-tailed eagles as part of the East Scotland sea eagle reintroduction project.^[17]
• The first record of a displaying great snipe came from 11 to 16 May at Cley where one was seen lekking.^[17]
• Red-backed shrike bred on Dartmoor for the second consecutive year. This species bred in the UK until the 1990s and last bred on Dartmoor in 1970.^[18]
• Seabirds in Scotland continue to struggle with poor breeding performances in many colonies.^[19]

Migrant and wintering birds

To be completed

Rare birds

• Britain's first white-winged scoter (American nominate race) on 11 June 2011 at Murcar Golf Course, Aberdeenshire.^[17]
• Britain's first slaty–backed gull (awaiting acceptance) on 13 January 2011 at the landfill site next to Rainham Marshes, London.^[17]
• Britain's second Pacific swift (awaiting acceptance) on 9 July 2011 at Spurn, Yorkshire.^[17]
• Britain's third American purple gallinule found dead on 24 January 2011 on Dartmoor, Devon.^[17]
• Britain's third white-throated robin on 6 June 2011 at Hartlepool Headland.^[17]
• Britain's fifth rock bunting on 8 May 2011 at Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire. The fourth was in 1967.^[17]
• Britain's sixth Audouin's gull on 6 May 2011 at Minsmere, Suffolk.^[17]

Other events

• Will Wagstaff believes it has been the best September in the Isles of Scilly since the late 1980s with northern waterthrush, black-and-white warbler, solitary sandpiper, lesser yellowlegs, Baird's sandpiper, blue-winged teal and red-eyed vireo on the islands.^[20]

Rare birds

• France's first (if accepted) long-toed stint at Salin de Gau near La Turballe in Loire Atlantique on 6 November 2011.^[21]

Rare birds

• Ireland's first white-winged scoter (race stejnegeri) on 9 March 2011 at Rossbeigh, County Kerry. May have been present since late 2010 and was probably present during 2009–10.^[17]
• Ireland's first pallid harrier on 22 April 2011 at Ballyvergan Marsh, County Cork. A further record of the same individual or another on 26 April 2011 at Slemish Mountain, County Antrim.^[17]

Rare birds

• Italy's second (if accepted) pin-tailed snipe near Siracusa, Sicily on 18 December 2011^[22]

Rare birds

• Lithuania's third (if accepted) grey phalarope at Kopgalis on 7 December^[23]

Rare birds

• Birdlife Cyprus estimate over one third of a million birds are illegally trapped, using mist nets and lime-sticks in Cyprus during the first two weeks of September.^[24] Estimate rises to one million for the period 1 September to 23 October.^[25]

Rare birds

• Iceland's fourth White's thrush at Nesjahverfi, SE Iceland on 26 November died after flying into a window.^[26]
• A bufflehead in Dynjandi, Iceland on 27 December is thought to be the same bird as in February to April 2009^[27]
• Sweden's first dusky thrush at Uppland on 12 November.^[28]

Rare birds

• Spains first sandhill crane (if accepted) on 4 November 2011 between Palazuelo and Torviscal in Extremadura.^[29]