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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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| Sunday 7th August 2016 | ||
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| Seabirds were the highlight of the day with 703 Cory's Shearwaters logged (all but one in Ireland), 56 Great Shearwaters (all but five in Ireland), a
Long-tailed Skua passing County Clare, and two Wilson's Petrels off the Isles of Scilly. Rarities comprised both the Dalmatian Pelican and Hudsonian Whimbrel still in Cornwall, Semipalmated Sandpipers in both County Kerry and Pembrokeshire, Spotted Sandpiper in Somerset, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, and White-rumped Sandpipers in County Antrim and briefly on the Isles of Scilly. Scarcities included Purple Heron (Oxfordshire), Temminck's Stint (East Yorkshire), White Stork (West Sussex), Cattle Egret (Merseyside), two each of both Pectoral Sandpiper and Surf Scoter, and a total of seven Glossy Ibises. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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