Dorset Birds: Sightings - Thursday 8th May 2014

GLOSSY IBIS - 2 Coward's Marsh
Sanderling - 28 sandspit Christchurch Harbour
Great Skua - 5 past Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Common Tern - 112 past Mudeford Quay
Black Tern - 1 past Mudeford Quay
Little Tern - 32 Chesil Beach
Iceland Gull - juvenile Radipole Lake
Hoopoe - 1 Corscombe at the Higher Ground Meadow natural burial ground; please be respectful.

RARE BREEDING BIRDS

Dorset Bird Club and the Rare Breeding Birds Panel advocate special caution when reporting rare breeding birds as they are vulnerable to persecution and disturbance.

Please consider the birds welfare and do not share details of any rare breeding species on X/Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp groups, personal websites, blogs, or local birdwatching message boards.

We urge all finders of rare birds to consider whether they may be breeding before sharing the news.

Sightings should always be submitted, in confidence, to the county recorder to contribute to long-term national monitoring.