Wednesday, 28 April 2010

With a wave of earlier summer migrants than normal, total for year now reaches 320 species

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The total number of species recorded in combined Britain and Ireland this year has now reached 320 species, with the addition of the followi...
Thursday, 15 April 2010

2010 total crashes through 300 barrier

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The total of confirmed species now recorded in Britain and Ireland in 2010 has now reached 302 halfway through Week 15. The new additions i...
Friday, 2 April 2010

CANVASBACKS: a gallery of North American individuals, with comments from an observer very familiar with the species

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Lee, I spend much of every fall and early winter going over photos of hummingbirds, hoping to find a vagrant among them, which I can then dr...
Thursday, 1 April 2010

CANVASBACKS with pale on the bill

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An adult drake CANVASBACK photographed in Maryland, USA, showing some paleness on the upper bill (Curtis Brant) See putative CANVASBACK imag...
Tuesday, 30 March 2010

A remarkable early run of vagrants bolsters the 2010 total

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The adult male LESSER KESTREL at Minsmere (Jan Hein Steenis) and ALPINE and PALLID SWIFT in Suffolk (Andrew Easton) The total number of spec...
Monday, 29 March 2010

WOODCOCK slaying

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Appalling crimes committed by gamekeepers against WOODCOCKS Unprecedented numbers of WOODCOCKS, in terms of modern-day counting, arrived in ...

Only the 6th GENUINE LESSER KESTREL in Britain since 1950

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Jan Hein Steenis, Barry Reed and Bill Last were on site shortly after Andy Cook discovered the bird and were able to enjoy these crippling v...

The LESSER KESTREL

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Alan Shearman managed to get to the bird before it flew further inland and obtained these images as it perched on the fenceposts

Overshooting Spanish steppe Kestrel causes a major stir

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The ALPINE SWIFT invasion - this bird photographed by Brian Field as it drifted back and forth over Marazion Marsh RSPB in West Cornwall Ess...
Thursday, 25 March 2010

WHITE-TAILED SEA EAGLES continue to increase and expand their range in Holland

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In 2006 White-tailed Sea Eagles started to breed in The Netherlands (in the Oostvaardersplassen near Lelystad). This pair bred successfully ...

SEMICOLLARED FLYCATCHERS arriving in force in SE Europe

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A record influx of SEMICOLLARED FLYCATCHERS is currently being witnessed in SE Europe (Italy, etc), exceptionally early and perhaps a signa...
Monday, 22 March 2010

Spring now livening up, with revised total now hitting 275

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Recent days have seen a wave of fresh arrivals of trans-Saharan migrants moving north, with the total number of species now recorded in Brit...
Friday, 12 March 2010

This weeks Irish Rarity Gallery

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The PACIFIC DIVER off County Clare last weekend (Dermot Breen), and Lough Atedaun PIED-BILLED GREBE and Galway Harbour FORSTER'S TERN (M...

As Week 10 comes towards a close, the first OSPREY makes 263

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The exceptionally confiding drake LESSER SCAUP at Hogganfield Loch (Mike Thrower) The bird of the moment - drake BUFFLEHEAD on The Fleet (Do...
Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Spring is in the air - 254 species now recorded in 2010

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The total number of species now recorded in Britain and Ireland in 2010 has now risen to 254 species, with the addition of six new species i...

Wintering EUROPEAN TURTLE DOVE in Ireland

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This EUROPEAN TURTLE DOVE was discovered in IRELAND in late January and was still to be found this past weekend, frequenting a private gard...
Friday, 26 February 2010

First PIED-BILLED GREBE since 2002

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ICELAND and two different RING-BILLED GULLS in Cork today (Ronan MacLaughlin) This drake GARGANEY has wintered in County Cork (Ronan MacLaug...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010

HOOPOE - 251

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Considering the continuing winter weather, it was with great surprise to hear of the first EURASIAN HOOPOES this week, with perhaps two ind...
Monday, 22 February 2010

Shetland TAIGA BEAN GEESE

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Mariko Parslow, who spent many years studying Bean Geese in the Yare Valley and at staging posts along their return route in spring, kindly ...
Sunday, 21 February 2010

GYRFALCON captures IVORY GULL

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See Newfoundland blog - http://peregrineprints.com/ind__WhatsNew.htm