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

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  Most recent RBA news as at 04:41 (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 22:41   Staffs Black-necked Grebe ad still 7pm Gailey Resr  
 
  Yesterday at 22:30   Lancs 2.Quail (both males) singing NE of Formby at Plex Moss at west end of Plex Moss Lane at 10pm  
 
  Yesterday at 22:28   Kent 11.Garganey still Isle of Sheppey at Elmley Marshes RSPB on pool at Sharfleet +13.Spot'shanks  
  News summary for yesterday  
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  A singing River Warbler showed well at Applecross, Highland for its 5th day. This individual will no doubt prove to be a popular attraction, given that there hasn't been a twitchable Mainland River Warbler for almost thirteen years.

Elsewhere, rarity news involved belated reports of Red-footed Falcon in Hampshire and Black Kite in Cambridgeshire, but unfortunately yesterday's reported Audouin's Gull in Co Kerry turned out to be an aberrant or hybrid gull.

Elsewhere a Rose-coloured Starling was briefly in Falmouth (Cornwall), the Marsh Warbler continued to sing at Otmoor RSPB (Oxfordshire) and a drake Green-winged Teal was discovered on Mainland Orkney.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA