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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnny Allan" data-source="post: 1412920" data-attributes="member: 60985">I don't see how anyone could think that "the greatest British rarity in the last 50 years" could be anything other than Slender-billed Curlew, a bird that was on the verge of extinction and, arguably, we had the last one ever.However, I did enjoy the Pallas's Sandgrouse. I know there'd been irruptions in the past and they'd actually bred here, but by 1990, it was an almost mythical bird and certainly a lot more exciting than seeing your first Iberian Chiffchaff.</blockquote>