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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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| Thursday 30th July 2020 | ||
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| A probable Zino's Petrel was seen from the evening pelagic off the Isles of Scilly. This would be the first record for Britain if confirmed. Six Wilson's Petrels were also seen, along with both Great and Cory's Shearwaters.
Other new discoveries, or relocations, today included a Caspian Tern at Lunt Meadows, Merseyside, then on the Kent Estuary in Cumbria and at Leighton Moss RSPB, Lancashire, and a Long-billed Dowitcher at Martin Mere WWT, Lancashire. A Gull-billed Tern was present at Alton Water, Suffolk, yesterday. Lingering rarities included the Gull-billed Tern in County Wexford and Lesser Yellowlegs and Black-winged Stilt in Kent. Scarcity highlights included a Melodious Warbler, a Rose-coloured Starling, a Purple Heron, a Glossy Ibis, four Honey Buzzards, an Iceland Gull, two Glaucous Gulls, five Great Shearwaters, six Cory's Shearwaters, a Pomarine Skua, five Long-tailed Skuas and three Balearic Shearwaters. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 29th July 2020 | ||
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| In Northumberland the Sooty Tern was again around Cullernose Point from late afternoon. The Gull-billed Tern remained at Tacumshin, County Wexford, as did the Lesser Yellowlegs and Bonaparte's Gull at Oare Marshes and Black-winged Stilt at Dungeness, both Kent (with the pair of stilts still in Somerset), Pacific Golden Plover at Derrybeg, County Donegal, Long-billed Dowitcher at Marshside RSPB, Merseyside and the Lammergeier was reported a couple of times in Derbyshire.
Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling, a Purple Heron, a Glossy Ibis, six Honey Buzzards, a Red-necked Phalarope, a Glaucous Gull, two Cory's Shearwaters, two Great Shearwaters, two Balearic Shearwaters and a Pomarine Skua. |
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| Friday 24th July 2020 | ||
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| Lingering rarities still present today included the Stilt Sandpiper in Orkney, Long-billed Dowitcher in Merseyside, Black-winged Stilts in Somerset (three) and Kent, Lesser Yellowlegs and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Laughing Gull in County Dublin and Lammergeier in Derbyshire /South Yorkshire.
Scarcity highlights included three Rose-coloured Starlings, two Pectoral Sandpipers, a Night Heron, a Glossy Ibis, five Honey Buzzards and a Long-tailed Skua. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 23rd July 2020 | ||
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| A Sooty Tern was present briefly at Maidens, Ayrshire mid afternoon before it flew north. A Stilt Sandpiper remained for its second day on Sanday, Orkney.
Other lingering rarites included the Lammergeier in Derbyshire /South Yorkshire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cumbria and Merseyside, Black-winged Stilts in Somerset (five) and Kent, Laughing Gull in County Dublin and single Bonaparte's Gulls in County Louth and Argyll. Scarcity highlights included two Rose-coloured Starlings, four Honey Buzzards, a Glossy Ibis, a Pomarine Skua, eight Long-tailed Skuas and ten Balearic Shearwaters. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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