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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 16:50 (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
  An unexpected major find today was a White-throated Sparrow on the Isle of May in Fife. Elsewhere, White-rumped Sandpipers were the order of the day with new birds being found at Dungarvan in County Waterford, Youghal in County Cork, Meols in Cheshire and Seaforth in Merseyside, with birds also still lingering on Scilly and in Norfolk. A Fea's Petrel flew past Pendeen in Cornwall and in Kent, Sandwich Bay had both Red-rumped Swallow and Black Kite fly through.

At least one Black Stork continued to tour the east of Norfolk and Suffolk and, in Orkney the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater remained, at least in the morning and on the Gloucestershire/Oxfordshire border, the Long-tailed Shrike was still in residence, as was the Hudsonian Godwit on the Suffolk/Essex border. Other lingering rarities included Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, Red-footed Falcon in Aberdeenshire, Bonaparte's Gulls in Kent and Gloucestershire, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Orkney and Greenish Warbler in Shetland.
-  Pete Hayman, RBA
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
   
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