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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 23rd April 2023 | ||
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The highlights of the day were the discovery of a Forster's Tern in Dorset in Poole Harbour, a Gull-billed Tern in Cornwall at Dinham Flats, a Lesser Scaup in County Sligo at Lough Gara, and now two Penduline Tits together in Kent at Oare Marshes. Rarities elsewhere comprised the elusive Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow still in East Sussex, Isabelline Wheatear in Norfolk, Hooded Merganser in Cumbria, King Eider in Fife, Black Kite in North Yorkshire, two White-billed Divers in Moray, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cheshire and Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gulls in County Cork and Cornwall, Lesser Scaups in Greater Manchester and Oxfordshire, Ferruginous Ducks in Norfolk and Staffordshire, and Black-winged Stilts in County Cork, Glamorgan (2), Herefordshire (2), County Kerry (4). Scarcities included Golden Oriole and Montagu's Harrier (Cornwall), Dotterel (Isles of Scilly), three of Hoopoe and Green-winged Teal, four Woodchat Shrikes, five Ring-necked Ducks, eight Glossy Ibises, and a total of 10 Night Herons. Incoming summer migrants included 56 Garganey, 49 Ring Ouzels, 13 each of Black Tern and Pied Flycatcher, six Wood Sandpipers, four Blue-headed Wagtail, and three Wood Warblers. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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