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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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| Monday 4th September 2023 | ||
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The highlight of the day was the reapparance of the Brown Booby in North Yorkshire between Filey and Hunmanby Gap where it showed for much of the day. Seabirds elsewhere included Red-footed Booby and two Wilson's Petrels at sea off the Isles of Scilly, and around island totals of two Sabine's Gulls, 582 Great Shearwaters, and 6,440 Cory's Shearwaters. Nearctic waders comprised the Wilson's Phalarope still in Highland, Semipalmated Sandpipers in both County Cork and County Wexford, Long-billed Dowitchers in Norfolk and the Orkney Isles, three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, four American Golden Plovers, and seven Pectoral Sandpipers. Other rarities comprised Stejneger's Scoter, King Eider, and Surf Scoter all together in Lothian, Western Rufous Turtle Dove still on the Western Isles, Greater Sand Plover in County Wexford, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Pallid Harrier on the Shetland Isles, Bonaparte's Gull in County Dublin, and two Blue-winged Teals together in East Yorkshire. Scarcities included Melodious Warbler (County Kerry), Corncrake (Kent), Spotted Crake (Derbyshire), Hoopoe (Orkney Isles), Temminck's Stint (Gloucestershire), two each of Rose-coloured Starling, Common Rosefinch, and Red-necked Phalarope, three Barred Warblers, six Red-backed Shrikes, seven Glossy Ibises, and eight Wrynecks. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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