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RBA Weekly Roundup: 23 - 29 Oct A Nutcracker in Norfolk fulfilled predictions, with headlines also including a superb Dusky Thrush and two remaining eastern gems. Read the roundup here rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
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AviList updated for 2026 rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
AviList updated for 2026

AviList updated for 2026

An updated version of the first unified global checklist of the world’s bird species is available now, with annual revisions to follow.

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RBA Weekly Roundup: 16 - 22 Oct Finally some easterly winds delivered Siberian passerines along the east coast, but headlines also included a mega seabird. Read the roundup here rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
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One of Scotland's most important places for nature saved from destruction rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
One of Scotland's most important places for nature saved from destruction

One of Scotland's most important places for nature saved from destruction

Scottish Ministers have announced that they will save the internationally important wildlife site at Coul Links from a golf development that would have caused permanent and irreversible damage.

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Close bonds between Jackdaws bring food benefits but with waiting costs rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/conte…
Close bonds between Jackdaws bring food benefits but with waiting costs

Close bonds between Jackdaws bring food benefits but with waiting costs

A two-year experiment in Cornwall found that mates and close relatives coordinated their visits and tolerated each other at single-bird feeders.

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Wallcreeper winter range could expand across Switzerland rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
Wallcreeper winter range could expand across Switzerland

Wallcreeper winter range could expand across Switzerland

Climate models predict an increase in the Wallcreeper's winter range in Switzerland, tho suitable breeding cliffs will increasingly be found at higher elavations.

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Fiordland Penguin surveys reveal a larger population than previously indicated rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/conte…
Fiordland Penguin surveys reveal a larger population than previously indicated

Fiordland Penguin surveys reveal a larger population than previously indicated

Twelve years of nest mapping suggest New Zealand's forest-breeding penguin is about three times more numerous than earlier surveys indicated.

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Record 'tern' around for seabirds on Solent RSPB nature reserves rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/conte…
Record 'tern' around for seabirds on Solent RSPB nature reserves

Record 'tern' around for seabirds on Solent RSPB nature reserves

Increases in breeding seabird numbers on RSPB reserves in the Solent are largely a result of work to manage habitats as part of the Solent Seascape Project.

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RBA Weekly Roundup: 9 - 15 Oct There was a westerly flavour to Jon Dunn's roundup this week, headlined by a Rose-breasted Grosbeak in County Galway Read the roundup here rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
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African Bird Club passes £750,000 milestone for bird conservation in Africa rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
African Bird Club passes £750,000 milestone for bird conservation in Africa

African Bird Club passes £750,000 milestone for bird conservation in Africa

Thirty years of grants have supported 383 conservation projects across 53 African countries and territories.

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Thousands of people take part in EuroBirdwatch 2026 rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/conte…
Thousands of people take part in EuroBirdwatch 2026

Thousands of people take part in EuroBirdwatch 2026

EuroBirdwatch 2026 brought 23,000 people into the field across Europe and Central Asia, recording mass movements alongside a striking spread of scarce migrants.

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RBA Weekly Roundup: 2 - 8 Oct Scilly grabbed the autumnal limelight with the appearance of two Sora on the archipelago this week Read the roundup here rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
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Ural Owls rebuild a link across central Europe's forests rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
Ural Owls rebuild a link across central Europe's forests

Ural Owls rebuild a link across central Europe's forests

Long-running releases in Germany and Austria are establishing breeding populations where the large forest owl disappeared during the twentieth century.

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England opens evidence review of gamebird shooting rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
England opens evidence review of gamebird shooting

England opens evidence review of gamebird shooting

Wildlife impacts, animal welfare and crime are among the issues under examination as conservationists renew calls for shoot licensing.

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World's largest penguin colony loses half a million birds rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
World's largest penguin colony loses half a million birds

World's largest penguin colony loses half a million birds

A 63% fall in Chinstrap Penguins has cost Zavodovski Island its global record and changed the balance of its seabird community.

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Captive-bred Great Indian Bustards take first steps in the wild rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
Captive-bred Great Indian Bustards take first steps in the wild

Captive-bred Great Indian Bustards take first steps in the wild

Two males released in Rajasthan mark the transition from building a conservation-breeding population to testing reintroduction methods.

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Camera trap records a possible Suffolk Pine Marten first rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
Camera trap records a possible Suffolk Pine Marten first

Camera trap records a possible Suffolk Pine Marten first

Footage from Benacre National Nature Reserve may be the county's first live record, but Natural England says a lookalike species has not been ruled out.

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Lanceolated Warbler at Sumburgh Farm, Shetland, this morning - I was 75metres away when the news came out… @RareBirdAlertUK @puffinpassion #birding
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Barn Owl and Atlantic Puffin chosen for new banknotes rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
Barn Owl and Atlantic Puffin chosen for new banknotes

Barn Owl and Atlantic Puffin chosen for new banknotes

Nearly half a million people took part in the Bank of England consultation that put British wildlife at the centre of the next series.

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Norway's Lapwings hold on in a farmland stronghold rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
Norway's Lapwings hold on in a farmland stronghold

Norway's Lapwings hold on in a farmland stronghold

A new survey underlines the importance of Jaeren, where local breeding numbers contrast with a much wider national decline.

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