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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 13th April 2023 | ||
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The influx of southern European species continued with the Kentish Plover still in Northamptonshire, Savi's Warbler still in Cheshire, Tawny Pipit and three Woodchat Shrikes on the Isles of Scilly, single Alpine Swifts in Cleveland, East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk, three Purple Herons, six Hoopoes, 13 Black-winged Stilts (all in the south and west), and a total of 19 Night Herons. Other rarities comprised the Double-crested Cormorant still in County Leitrim, Ross's Gull still in Aberdeenshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cheshire and Norfolk, Lesser Scaups in Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and the Western Isles, White-billed Diver in Moray, and a Bonaparte's Gull new in County Cork at Ballydehob. Scarcities included Rough-legged Buzzard (Shetland), Pectoral Sandpiper (Somerset), Surf Scoter (Fife), Sabine's Gull (Pembrokeshire), Great Grey Shrike (Kent), Green-winged Teal (Cumbria), Lapland Bunting (Shetland Isles), six Shorelarks, 10 Glossy Ibises, and 13 Ring-necked Ducks. Incoming summer migrants included 35 Garganey, 28 Ring Ouzels, eight Swifts, five Pied Flycatchers, Black Tern, Wood Warbler, and a Whinchat. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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