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 Rosy Starling at Bird (Craig Nisbet) Craig Nisbet has reported a Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago and Corncrake Crex crex at Bird Island on 31 January. The following morning on a morning search of the tern colony to attempt to relocate these species, he found a Rosy Starling Pastor roseus.
SBRC has accepted 26 previous records of Common Snipe and 5 each of Corncrake and Rosy Starling,
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 Little Ringed Plover (Craig Nisbet) Crain Nisbet and Francesca Clair have reported a Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius at Desroches 22-25 January 2020. SBRC has accepted 11 previous records, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s with just 3 since 1991.  Local House Sparrow meets visiting Little Ringed Plover (Craig Nisbet)  Red-throated Pipit at Desroches Craig Nisbet has reported a Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus at the tortoise sanctuary, Desroches on 23 January 2020.
SBRC has reported 35 previous records of this species.  Sand Martin (George Curd) Chris Narty, George Curd and Gail Fordham have reported two Sand Martin Riparia riparia at St Francois on 21 January 2020.
SBRC has accepted 43 previous records of this species. This is the first report from St Francois, though it has been recorded on neighbouring Alphonse on eight occasions.  Little Swift (Chris Narty) Chris Narty has reported a Little Swift Apus affinis at Alphonse on 20 January 2020. SBRC has accepted 10 previous records of this species This is the first report from the Amirantes, the only other outer island record being one at Aldabra.
 Common Cuckoo (Craig Nisbet) Craig Nisbet has reported a Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus at Bombay Beach, Desroches on 18 January 2020. Common Cuckoo is a near-annual visitor to Seychelles. SBRC has accepted 64 previous records. However, many reports do not rule out other Cuculus sp., so that a further 36 recrds have been acceppted as Cuculus sp. More than 80% of sightings are in the period November to January.   Eleonora's Falcons (Matthew Morgan) Matthew Morgan has reported four Eleonora's Falcons Falco eleonorae at Farquhar on 7 January 2020.
SBRC has accepted 47 previous records of this species. All but 4 of these records are of single birds and this is the frst report of more than 3 at the same time.  Black-tailed Godwit (Mathew Morgan) Mathew Morgan and Anabelle Cupidon have reported Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa at Farquhar: Two at the southern tip of North Island on 23 December 2019 and one at Manahas Milieu on 7 January 2020.
SBRC has accepted 10 previous records of this species. However, this is the first record south of the Amirantes. |
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