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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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| Saturday 20th August 2022 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Greater Sand Plover in Aberdeenshire at St Combs. Seabird tallies comprised a Barolo Shearwater in County Wexford passing Carnsore Point, a Fea's/Desertas Petrel in Cornwall passing Porthgwarra, a total of 28 Wilson's Petrels, 34 Cory's Shearwaters, 215 Great Shearwaters, 27 Sabine's Gulls, and five Long-tailed Skuas. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Turkestan Shrike still in East Yorkshire, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Iberian Chiffchaff in London, Citrine Wagtail in Gwent, Caspian Tern and 10 Bee-eaters together in Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Ferruginous Duck in Northamptonshire, and the family of four Black-winged Stilts in Cheshire. Scarcities included Melodious Warbler (Cornwall), Icterine Warbler and Temminck's Stint (Norfolk), Barred Warbler (Shetland Isles), Night Heron and Purple Heron (Kent), Pectoral Sandpiper (East Yorkshire), Dotterel (East Sussex), three each of White-winged Black Tern, American Golden Plover, Red-backed Shrike, and Wryneck, five Spotted Crakes, and a total of 16 Glossy Ibises. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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