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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 all new 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 07:05 (Includes local news not shown on NewsMap Lite)

Below is the actual text of the 3 most recent messages to RBA subscribers. For how to access all messages: click here


	Yesterday at 22:37	Clyde Scaup drk Strathclyde Park still at north end of Strathclyde Loch


	Yesterday at 22:33	Norfolk Hen Harrier male Snettisham RSPB at south end at 4.30pm then flew south


	Yesterday at 22:32	Herefords Firecrest Hereford on east side at Tupsley at Broadlands LNR this morning SO.528.408


News summary for yesterday

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

	Lingering rarities included the Black-throated Thrush in North Yorkshire, Thayer's Gull and Forster's Tern in Co Galway, Little Bunting in Highland, Black Kite in Powys and Lesser Scaup in Cornwall. Elsewhere one each of American Wigeon, Great White Egret and Rose-coloured Starling, two Ring-necked Ducks, three Rough-legged Buzzards, five Cattle Egrets and twelve Waxwings were reported.
- Stuart Piner, RBA

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