The California Bird Records Committee reached decisions on 204 records involving 88 species in 1999, endorsing 150 of them. New to California was the Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta), extensively photographed and seen a nautical mile west of Point Arena, Mendocino County. Also added to the state list was the Red-crowned Parrot (Amazona viridigenalis), now established in southern California cities and constituting the ninth non-native species on the state list.