OK if we're talking ridiculous Fair Isle birds, I reckon Pallas's Sandgrouse
is the most far-fetched - 3rd June 1990.... and it rained all day.
From: "Mark Roberts" <>
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:02:47 +1000
Hoopoe. (http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/h/hoopoe/index.asp)
Fair Isle. (http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/)
1977, or was it 1978?
What a ridiculous place to find a desert-dwelling bird.
Like a big Pink and Black and White butterfly, on a windswept, rainswept,
treeless, North Atlantic island north of the mainland of GB between the
Orkneys and the Shetlands.
I was 19. Life has generally been less thrilling since then...
Someone banded one there in 1987:
http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/ornithology.htm
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