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Friday 20th May 2016  
  The Lammergeirer reappeared today, over Cookworthy Moor Plantation (Devon), approximately 20 miles from where it was last reported on Dartmoor on 18th May.

Elsewhere rartity sightings included Dalmatian Pelican (Cornwall), Great Spotted Cuckoo (Dorset), Black-winged Stilits (Suffolk and Essex), Red-footed Falcons (Essex and Wiltshire), Great Reed Warbler (Cambridgeshire), Gull-billed Tern (Glamorgan), Iberian Chiffchaff (London) and Black Kite (Kent).

The best of the rest included Pectoral Sandpiper (Cumbria), Dotterel (Norfolk), Red-backed Shrike and Bluethroat (Orkney), up to four Hoopoes and five Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA