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Thursday 27th February 2025  
  Extraordinary news of a White Tern picked up in Gwynedd at Llanberis - either today or in recent days - and taken into care. This is first Western Palearctic record of this tropical noddy and the photograph made available shows it to be of the Indo-Pacific subspecies candida.

In County Wicklow a Lesser Yellowlegs was new at Buckroney Marsh.

Continuing rarities confirmed as still present were the Double-crested Cormorant in County Leitrim, Black-throated Thrush in Hampshire, Eastern Yellow Wagtail in Lincolnshire, Bufflehead, Ross's Goose, and White-billed Diver in Shetland, two White-winged Scoters in Lothian, Pacific Diver in County Cork, Red-breasted Goose and Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, Pallid Harrier in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Ferruginous Duck in Hertfordshire, and Lesser Scaups in County Cork, Essex (2), County Wexford (2), and the Western Isles.
Chris Batty, RBA
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