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 NewsMap Lite - Rare and scarce birds in the British Isles today - from Rare Bird Alert

Welcome to Rare Bird Alert's birdnews map for BirdForum. Click on the symbols on the map to find the basic details on the latest breaking rare and scarce birdnews for Britain and Ireland.  To see the full details of each sighting you need to use the subscriber only "NewsMap". Know about something not yet reported today? Have an update? Please contribute your own sightings - full details of how to do that here

Also, you will see on NewsMap photos of the birds with each report where people have contributed photos, so if you have photos, please contribute and upload your own photos, or email us your photos to be displayed on NewsMap Lite.

NOTE: NewsMap Lite displays rare, scarce and mega birdnews and is a limited version. The subscriber-only versions: NewsMap and NewsMap Plus have full details of each sighting, filters, and other features available only to subscribers.  Note also that 'NewsMap Lite' does not show the news of all the uncommon species that we report on - this free version only shows the rarest. If you would like to see the subscriber version, you can get Details of Free Trial here.
 

 
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  Most recent RBA news as at 14:49 (Includes local news not shown on NewsMap Lite)
Below is the actual text of the 3 most recent messages to RBA subscribers. For how to access all messages: click here
  News summary for yesterday  
  RBA subscribers click here for more daily summaries complete with weather charts
  Continuing rarities still present today included the Nutcracker in Norfolk, Rufous-tailed Robin and Isabelline Shrike species in East Yorkshire, Sora in Scilly, Black-throated Trush or hybrid in Orkney, Isabelline Wheatear in Lincolnshire, Desert Wheatears in both County Durham and Norfolk, Hume's Warbler in Kent, American Black Tern in County Dublin, Pallid Harrier in Glamorgan, and Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire.

In Shetland the Chestnut Bunting, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Red-flanked Bluetail, and King Eider remained whilst an Arctic Warbler was new on Fair Isle, as were Hume's Warblers on Bressay and at Levenwick, two Olive-backed Pipits Mainland at Lerwick, and now seven Coues's Redpolls.

New rarities elsewhere included an Isabelline Shrike species in County Cork at Knockadoon Head, Siberian Stonechat in Cornwall at Sennen Cove, Bonaparte's Gull in County Clare at Gleninagh, and two Olive-backed Pipits together on Tresco, Scilly.
-  Chris Batty, RBA
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
   
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