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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 map for BirdForum. Click on the symbols on the map to find the basic details on the latest breaking rare and scarce birdnews for Britain and Ireland.  To see the full details of each sighting you need to use the subscriber only "NewsMap". Know about something not yet reported today? Have an update? Please contribute your own sightings - full details of how to do that here

Also, you will see on NewsMap photos of the birds with each report where people have contributed photos, so if you have photos, please contribute and upload your own photos, or email us your photos to be displayed on NewsMap Lite.

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  Most recent RBA news as at 08:53 (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
  News summary for yesterday  
  RBA subscribers click here for more daily summaries complete with weather charts
  Finds of the day were a Rose-breasted Grosbeak on Inishbofin in County Galway and a Grey-cheeked Thrush at Easter Quarff in Shetland.

New rarities today included a Red-eyed Vireo at Gorie on Bressay in Shetland, a Rustic Bunting between Culswick and Selivoe in Shetland, Baird's Sandpipers at Rough Point in County Kerry and Drift Reservoir in Cornwall, a Hornemann's Redpoll at Upper Burn of Sound in Lerwick, an Olive-backed Pipit at Funzie on Fetlar in Shetland, a Radde's Warbler at Lytchett Bay in Dorset, White-rumped Sandpipers at Rough Point in County Kerry, Myroe Levels and Lough Beg in County Derry and Balranald on North Uist in the Western Isles, and a Lesser Yellowlegs at Kilbrittain Creek in County Cork.

Rarities included a Wilson's Snipe in Scilly, a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, a Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler in Shetland, a Scops Owl in Orkney, a Sora in Scilly, a Ross's Goose in Highland, a Western Bonelli's Warbler in Shetland, a Siberian Stonechat in Shetland, a King Eider in Shetland, Long-billed Dowitchers in the Western Isles and Orkney, an Arctic Warbler in Shetland, White-rumped Sandpipers in County Cork, and Lesser Yellowlegs in County Donegal, Fife and East Yorkshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
   
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