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| Tuesday 29th August 2023 | ||
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Notable seabirds today comprised the Red-footed Booby, a Scopoli's Shearwater, and two Wilson's Petrels all at sea off the Isles of Scilly where the Brown Booby was reported again, whilst around the whole of Britain and Ireland four Sabine's Gulls, five Long-tailed Skuas, 74 Great Shearwaters, and a total of 1,000 Cory's Shearwaters were logged. Elsewhere rarities comprised Stejneger's Scoter, King Eider, and Surf Scoter all still together in Lothian, Western Rufous Turtle Dove still on the Western Isles, Greater Sand Plover in County Wexford, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Pacific Golden Plover in Northumberland, Blue-winged Teal in East Yorkshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gulls in both County Dublin and Kent, Greenish Warbler on the Shetland Isles, Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Cornwall, and Caspian Terns in both Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Scarcities included Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Western Isles), Woodchat Shrike (Scilly), Icterine Warbler (Cornwall), Rose-coloured Starling (Shetland), Hoopoe (Devon), Red-necked Phalarope (Suffolk), American Wigeon (County Londonderry), two Common Rosefinches, three each of American Golden Plover, Barred Warbler, and Wryneck, four Pectoral Sandpipers, five Red-backed Shrikes, and 10 Glossy Ibises. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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