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NewsMap Lite - Rare and scarce birds in the British Isles today - from Rare Bird Alert

Welcome to Rare Bird Alert's birdnews page on Birdwatch. Click on the symbols on the map below to find the latest breaking rare and scarce birdnews for Britain and Ireland. Please be sure send us your own birdnews sightings here.

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Most recent RBA news as at 19:30 (Includes local news not shown on NewsMap Lite)

Below is the actual text of the 2 most recent messages to RBA subscribers. For how to access all messages: click here


	Today at 19:19	Notts WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER ad Langford Lowfields RSPB still 7.15pm from path on south side at Phase.3 c53.1329,-0.7876 Park at c53.1223,-0.7794


	Today at 19:19	Shetland SUBALPINE WARBLER sp fem Mainland at Sumburgh Head still 7.15pm in roses c59.8539,-1.2760


	Today at 19:13	Warwicks Little Tern Earlswood Lakes still 7.10pm at Engine Pool from causeway 52.3652,-1.8348: Viewed from 52.3661,-1.8339. Park at 52.3674,-1.8369


News summary for yesterday

RBA subscribers click here for more daily summaries complete with weather charts

	The new rarity today was a female White-winged Scoter at Killeenaran in County Galway. Continuing rarities today included White-winged Scoter in Fife, American Black Tern in Northumberland, Western Reef Heron in Gwynedd, Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, Trumpeter Finch in County Wexford and Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk and County Louth. Other notable news today was belated news of a Gull-billed Tern at Pagham Harbour in West Sussex on the 27th of May.
- Luke Stoppard, RBA

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