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Titre :	The Dorset Yellow Bittern
Auteurs :	Tim Melling, Auteur ; Robert Y. McGowan, Auteur ; Ian Lewington, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	British Birds (101(3) MAR 2008)
Article en page(s) :	137-141
Résumé :	A juvenile Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis was found freshly dead at Radipole Lake, Dorset, on 23rd November 1962. At the time, the bird was dismissed as being a likely escape from captivity, but subsequent information on the potential for long-distance vagrancy in this and other small herons led to the record being assessed by BBRC and BOURC. The identification as Yellow Bittern was accepted by both committees but, as a result of anomalies with the bird's plumage and the rather unusual circumstances of its discovery, BOURC rejected the record as a first for Britain.

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