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This page gives you access to all of RBA's daily news summaries (since April 13, 2006), 10 days at a time. The most recent are shown, or you can select a specific date to show (along with the previous 10 days). Prior to April 13, 2006 you can find weekly reviews, located in articles. | |||
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Monday 16th November 2009 | ||
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Breaking news today concerned a King Eider in Moray at Burghead, a Long-billed Dowitcher in County Londonderry at Lough Beg and a
White-billed Diver in Bluemull Sound, Shetland Isles. Lingering rarities comprised the Brown Shrike still in Surrey, two Penduline Tits together in Kent, the Spotted Sandpiper in Essex, Wilson's Phalarope in Lothian, Long-billed Dowitcher in Cumbria, Ferruginous Ducks in both Essex and Somerset, Cattle Egret in Dorset and Great White Egrets in Devon, Kent and Lancashire (2). Scarcities were represented by 61 Little Auks, 13 Shorelarks, seven Lapland Buntings, two Green-winged Teals and a single Serin (London), Bluethroat (County Cork), American Wigeon (Dumfries and Galloway), Sabine's Gull (Devon), Ring-billed Gull (County Dublin), Grey Phalarope (Cornwall), Black Brant (Dorset), Snow Goose and Great Grey Shrike (both Norfolk). Significant late news received for Sunday was of the continued presence of the juvenile Glaucous-winged Gull - or similar hybrid - in Drumcliff Bay, County Sligo - a potential first for Ireland. |
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- Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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