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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 4h

Slender-billed Curlew Declared Extinct

IUCN confirms the loss of a once-widespread Western Palearctic wader after three decades without a verified record

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Slender-billed Curlew Declared Extinct

IUCN confirms the loss of a once-widespread Western Palearctic wader after three decades without a verified record

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5h

The Formula Behind Birding Itineraries

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The Formula Behind Birding Itineraries

A large analysis of commercial birding trips in Costa Rica, finds companies balance novelty with deliverability – favouring colourful, range-restricted tropical species that clients are likely to see

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 6h

Bonelli's Eagles' Movements Shaped by Their Birthplace #ornithology #birds www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...

Bonelli's Eagles' Movements Shaped by Their Birthplace

A new study has shown that desert-born birds roam far and face greater risks, while Mediterranean birds stay closer to home

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 7h

Climate Change Delays Spring Arrivals at Spurn

#ornithology #birds #birding #spurn @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/C...

Climate Change Delays Spring Arrivals at Spurn

Long-term monitoring at one of Britain’s best-known migration hotspots shows that warmer, wetter springs are delaying arrivals – and changing the rhythm of migration itself

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 8h

Little Bunting — St Agnes (Isles of Scilly) — 14 Oct 2025 📷 © Ted Smith

#LittleBunting #StAgnes #IslesofScilly #birding #UKbirds

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 8h

Rose-coloured Starling — St Mary’s (Isles of Scilly) — 13 Oct 2025 📷 © Richard Stonier

#RosecolouredStarling #StMarys #IslesofScilly #birding #UKbirds #RBA

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 8h

Harlequin Duck — Bloody Foreland (County Donegal) — 11 Oct 2025 📷 © Victor Caschera

#HarlequinDuck #BloodyForeland #CountyDonegal #birding

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 9h

Conservation Pays Off for England's Smallest Seabird

RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century. @Natures_Voice #seabirds
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Conservation Pays Off for England’s Smallest Seabird

RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Weekly Birding Roundup 3-9 Oct
@dunnjons.bsky.social brings you his weekly birding roundup looking back on quite a stellar week around Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic.
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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Finders-in-the-Field: Harlequin Ducks in Co.Donegal, an Irish first
@robertvaughani.bsky.social and two friends headed to Tory Island for an autumn bird-finding trip and end up landing on a fall of Red-eyed Vireos and Ireland's first and second Harlequin Ducks
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Finders-in-the-Field: Harlequin Ducks in Co.Donegal, an Irish first

Robert Vaughan and two friends headed to Tory Island for an autumn bird-finding trip and end up landing on a fall of Red-eyed Vireos and Ireland's first and second Harlequin Ducks

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Dormice don't 'happen' upon bird nests - they go looking www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/D...

Dormice don’t ‘happen’ upon bird nests - they go looking

Nine breeding seasons of individual tracking show Edible Dormice repeatedly visit nest cavities at night and most encounters end in predation

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Babblers, by the numbers: colour metrics tidy up a muddled subspecies map
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Babblers, by the numbers: colour metrics tidy up a muddled subspecies map

Chestnut-winged Babbler complex reshaped: Bangka–Belitung form revived, Banyak Islands name sunk, and Borneo’s boundary pushed south

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Why bowerbirds build bowers: controlling the show, not just decorating the stage www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/W...

Why bowerbirds build bowers: controlling the show, not just decorating the stage

A new synthesis argues bowers evolved to shape what females see and hear-turning courtship into a sensory ‘theatre’ rather than a brute-force beauty contest

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

New Light on an Old Traveller

Great Reed Warblers breeding in Kazakhstan follow a unique, curved migration route to East Africa – and make a remarkable two-step journey home each spring
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New Light on an Old Traveller

Great Reed Warblers breeding in Kazakhstan follow a unique, curved migration route to East Africa – and make a remarkable two-step journey home each spring

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Why Aren’t We Using Bird-Safe Glass? www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/I...

Why Aren’t We Using Bird-Safe Glass?

Decades of research show that simple design choices can prevent millions of bird deaths each year – yet most buildings remain deadly

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Why Puffins Get the Love and Storm-Petrels Don’t www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/W...

Why Puffins Get the Love and Storm-Petrels Don’t

New research finds communities respond far more warmly to Atlantic Puffins than Leach’s Storm-Petrels – with real consequences for light-induced strandings and volunteer rescue

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Sparrowhawk killed with banned poison in Aberdeenshire www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/S...

Sparrowhawk killed with banned poison in Aberdeenshire

Police Scotland have issued the following appeal for information after a Sparrowhawk was poisoned in Aberdeenshire

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

@robertvaughani.bsky.social thanks for the follow, though still doesn't look like we can dm you here for some reason! I've pinged you a DM over on Twitter. Thanks

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Robert, would you mind following so we can send you a DM?

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 6d

'Rocket Bird' Thrills Birders in East Yorkshire

The White-throated Needletail – famed for its speed and rarity – has been recorded on the British mainland for the first time since 1991.
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'Rocket Bird' Thrills Birders in East Yorkshire

The White-throated Needletail – famed for its speed and rarity – has been recorded on the British mainland for the first time since 1991

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 6d

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 7d

MEGA - White-throated Needletail earlier this pm at Tophill Low, E.Yorks

First mainland record since 1991 😲

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📷 via tophilllow.blogspot.com

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 12d

Bird Populations in Pristine Danish Forest Decline Despite Stable Habitat

Three decades of monitoring in Høstemark Forest reveal climate-driven shifts and biodiversity loss even in undisturbed woodlands www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...

Bird Populations in Pristine Danish Forest Decline Despite Stable Habitat

Three decades of monitoring in Høstemark Forest reveal climate-driven shifts and biodiversity loss even in undisturbed woodlands

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 12d

High-Speed Trains Pose Hidden Threat to Spain’s Birds www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/H...

High-Speed Trains Pose Hidden Threat to Spain’s Birds

Three decades of monitoring in Høstemark Forest reveal climate-driven shifts and biodiversity loss even in undisturbed woodlands

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