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Thursday 31st January 2013  
  New discoveries today included a female Ferruginous Duck in London, at Danson Park, Bexleyheath, and a Richardson's Canada Goose on the Western Isles, at Balranald RSPB, North Uist.

Lingering rarities included the Desert Wheatear in Aberdeenshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, White-billed Diver in Orkney, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Black-bellied Dipper in Norfolk, Lesser Scaup in Somerset and Glossy Ibis in Pembrokeshire.

Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling, a Grey Phalarope, a Great Grey Shrike, a Kumlien's Gull, a Cattle Egret, a Todd's Canada Goose, two American Wigeon, five Lapland Buntings, seven Ring-necked Ducks, eight Little Auks, six Ring-billed Gulls, eight Caspian Gulls, five Iceland Gulls and 11 Glaucous Gulls.
Will Soar, RBA
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