UK400ClubRareBirdAlert

This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert highlighting all records of avian interest and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers and utilising additional information gleaned from the Regional Birdlines, BirdGuides, local email groups and individual observers

Monday, 22 December 2008

Sunday, 21 December 2008

FIRST CORNISH SNOWY OWL FOR 63 YEARS

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The juvenile SNOWY OWL previously present on St Martin's (Scilly) has followed the recent Gyrfalcon from that archipelago to MAILAND CO...

Saturday, 20 December 2008

COMMON RAVENS IN KENT

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COMMON RAVEN is still a difficult-to-see bird in Kent so two birds calling loudly from trees in Bedgebury Pinetum this afternoon were of in...

ESSEX RARE GULL BONANZA

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SIMON KNIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY This first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL roosted on the Target Pools at Rainham Marsh RSPB for over an hour this morning ...

Friday, 19 December 2008

WAXWINGS PENETRATE FURTHER SOUTH

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TODAY'S IMAGES Plates 1-4 RARE BIRDS IN IRELAND - the AMERICAN BUFF-BELLIED PIPIT at Mullagh, Lough Neagh, County Antrim (Derek Charles...

Tuesday, 16 December 2008

ELMLEY MARSHES, ISLE OF SHEPPEY (NORTH KENT) THIS WINTER

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The regular returning ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD hovered at the foot of Harty Hill at around 11.15 this am before flying towards Harty Ferry. Als...

2008 TOTAL FOR BRITAIN AND IRELAND HOLDING FIRM AT 445 SPECIES - A NEW RECORD

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With just two weeks remaining before the year end, the last two additions ( IVORY GULL on SHETLAND and NORTH AMERICAN BLACK TERN in the OUTE...

Monday, 15 December 2008

COLOUR-RINGED GLAUCOUS GULL IN SUFFOLK

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For nearly three weeks now, a colour-ringed juvenile GLAUCOUS GULL (hyperboreus) (white lettering 'LE' on a green ring) has been ra...

IVORY GULL ON SHETLAND

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This superb first-winter IVORY GULL was discovered and photographed by Brydon Thomason at Oddsta on Fetlar. It is presumably the bird presen...

Saturday, 13 December 2008

AMERICAN WOOD DUCK in the North Sea - only acceptable British record to date

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This superb adult drake NORTH AMERICAN WOOD DUCK settled just offshore of the FPSO Maersk Curlew platform (at 56 44 N 01 17 E) on 2nd Nov...

12 DECEMBER 2008

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TODAY'S IMAGES Plates 1-2: Slavonian Grebe, Brogborough Lake, Beds, December 2008 (Dave Bilcock) Plate 3: Juvenile Great Northern Dive...

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Lee G R Evans: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom; I have been birding since 1969 but became obsessed with 'twitching' in 1974 and haven't looked back since. Have driven over 1.3 million miles in pursuit of rare birds in the UK, where to date I have recorded 588 species in Britain and Ireland. I also have a fascination for the Birds of the Western Palearctic, where I have currently recorded 880 of the 1,064 species ever recorded. I am widely travelled in North America, as well as in Africa and Asia, and have written at least 29 books on my chosen subject, including best-sellers ''Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds' and 'Rare Birds in Britain 1800-1990'. Established the UK400 Club in 1981 to cater for the most obsessive of the British birding fraternity and now concentrate on online publishing, via the www.uk400clubonline.co.uk website. Record Birding achievements include recording 386 species in Britain & Ireland in 1996 and 627+ in the Western Palearctic in 2008

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ICELANDIC_TYPE REDPOLLS IN SUMMER

A TYPICAL MEALY REDPOLL

A TYPICAL LESSER REDPOLL