El Annie
Phew..............
OK I know I said I'd put them all in C&C but this one is important birding NEWS and thus I think should go in this Forum........
A rare white heron that has attracted thousands of bird watchers to Western Scotland was yesterday confirmed as Britain’s first ever snowy egret. The heron, from North America, was first seen at Balvicar, Argyll and Bute, on 5 November last year. A bird-watcher, Bill Jackson, had identified the bird by yellow markings at the base of its bill, its feet and the back of its legs. The snowy egret has been added as the 565th wild bird species in Britain by the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) and the British Birds Rarities Committee. Eric Meek, the Orkney-based chairman of the BOU’s records committee, said: "This is a first for Britain and is highly unusual because of the extraordinary length of its stay, and the number of localities at which it was recorded, visiting three different counties, Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway."
More information - Scotsman
El Annie
conserv@tion today - http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm
A rare white heron that has attracted thousands of bird watchers to Western Scotland was yesterday confirmed as Britain’s first ever snowy egret. The heron, from North America, was first seen at Balvicar, Argyll and Bute, on 5 November last year. A bird-watcher, Bill Jackson, had identified the bird by yellow markings at the base of its bill, its feet and the back of its legs. The snowy egret has been added as the 565th wild bird species in Britain by the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) and the British Birds Rarities Committee. Eric Meek, the Orkney-based chairman of the BOU’s records committee, said: "This is a first for Britain and is highly unusual because of the extraordinary length of its stay, and the number of localities at which it was recorded, visiting three different counties, Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway."
More information - Scotsman
El Annie
conserv@tion today - http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm