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Five species added to British bird list (www.birdguides.com)

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The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC) has recently [13 August 2024] announced that the British list has climbed to 641 with the addition of five species.

The first two relate to seabirds seen in the summer of 2021. Britain's first Soft-plumaged Petrel provided quite the shock when it moved along the east coast of England between Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire, and Stag Rocks, Northumberland, on 1 July. Native to the Southern Ocean, it becomes only the third record for the Western Palearctic (WP) following records off Finnmark, Norway, on 6 June 2009 – the only other record anywhere in the North Atlantic – and one off Eilat, Israel, and Aqaba, Jordan, on 25 March 1997. It is told from its close North Atlantic relatives (Fea's, Desertas and Zino's Petrels) by a complete, dark grey breast band.

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