Monday, 31 May 2010

MEGA - NORFOLK - TRUMPETER FINCH at Cley NWT

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There is a very bright male TRUMPETER FINCH at Cley NWT Reserve, Norfolk, this evening, showing very well on the seaward side of the shingl...
Saturday, 29 May 2010

Selfish behaviour by photographers flushes rare duck in Cambridgeshire

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Diddington Blue-winged Teal disturbed by photographers getting too close With the rise and rise in digital photography, more and more birdwa...
Friday, 28 May 2010

Tonight's Friday Review

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This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert, issued at midnight on Friday 28 May 2010 and published in close association of Rare Bird Alert Pager...
Thursday, 27 May 2010

MEGA - WHITE-TAILED PLOVER at Seaforth NR, Merseyside

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At noon, fellow Seaforth regular Tony Conway and I entered Hide A, near to the causeway. A visitor to Seaforth, Stephen Wende was in the hid...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

......And with the scorching heat dropping away, 350 species are logged

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Derbyshire's first GREAT REED WARBLER photographed by Daz Chapman RED-RUMPED SWALLOW on South Ronaldsay, Orkney, this afternoon - a grea...
Thursday, 20 May 2010

Total climbs to 346 species

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The total number of species recorded on the combined Britain and Ireland list in 2010 has now climbed to 346, with the addition of the follo...

ASIATIC BROWN SHRIKE in West Cornwall this evening

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A female ASIATIC BROWN SHRIKE was discovered by Mark Warren in West Cornwall this afternoon, skulking in bushes and scrub distantly west fr...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010

SLATE-COLOURED JUNCO in East Kent

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See photograph on http://www.freewebs.com/folkestonebirds/index.htm A SLATE-COLOURED JUNCO was in a private garden in Folkestone (Kent) bet...

Relaunch of Information Service - feel free to join

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OnlineRareBirdNews Visit the address above and register your membership Due to major problems with foreign spa...

Local volunteers required for round-the-clock watch on nesting PEREGRINES

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PC Charlie Everitt of the National Wildlife Crime Unit is appealing for assistance in keeping watch over a pair of Peregrines nesting on the...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010

PURPLE HERONS breeding in Kent

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The RSPB has launched a 24-hour vigil on a nesting pair of PURPLE HERONS at one of their reserves in East Kent. After three adults appeared...
Thursday, 13 May 2010

Total surges forward for mid May

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The total number of species now recorded in Britain and Ireland has climbed to a very impressive 340 species , with the addition of a furthe...
Tuesday, 11 May 2010

ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE lingers as temperatures plummet even further

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Roy Harvey captured these eloquent images of Frampton Marsh's ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE , the bird present for its third day in the NE corner ...

And now finally - an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER this year

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See the latest news on the excellent Western Isles Website: http://www.western-isles-wildlife.co.uk/Latest%20Bird%20and%20general%20wildlife...

HOUSE FINCH still considered more likely of captive origin by BBA

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I have been frantically soliciting further responses and information from my UK400 Club Advisory Panel on the evaluation process of this par...

And more on moult strategies of HOUSE FINCHES - Alex Lees

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from BNA: Prebasic I Molt . House Finches undergo one moult annually from July to October (Michener and Michener 1940, Stangel 1985). Prebas...

HOUSE FINCH systematics

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Everything you ever needed to know about House Finches, but were afraid to ask.... Alex Lees Systematics Geographic Variation Substantial va...

Additional HOUSE FINCH record

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In addition to the Fair Isle record of 27-30 April 1966 that I previously listed, there has been an earlier record on the island of a yellow...
Sunday, 9 May 2010

PRATINCOLE time all over again

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The gorgeous singing male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT at Welney WWT (Gary Thoburn) The confiding EURASIAN HOOPOE at Clayhanger Marsh (West Midl...

HOUSE FINCHES in captivity in Europe

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Richard Bonser kindly emailed me the following email he received from Morten relating to House Finches in captivity in Continental Europe......