Bird photos Scottish rarities in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
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White-faced Storm-petrel Argyll 1897
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Little Shearwater Lothian 1990
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Squacco Heron Lothian pre1877
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Brunnich's Guillemot Lothian 1908 (Common Guillemot above; Brunnich's below)
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Brunnich's Guillemot Lothian 1908
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Baillon's Crake Fair Isle 1929
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Collared Pratincole Outer Hebrides 1908 (upper) and Black-winged Pratincole Fair Isle 1927 (lower)
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Upland Sandpiper Dumfries and Galloway 1933
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Red-necked Stint Fair Isle 1994
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Whiskered Tern Dumfries and Galloway 1894
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Sooty Tern Upper Forth 1939
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Buff-bellied Pipit St Kilda 1910
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Desert Wheatear Orkney 1906
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Desert Wheatear Fair Isle 1928
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Pied Wheatear Isle of May 1909
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Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush Orkney 1910
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Savi's Warbler Fair Isle 1908
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River Warbler Fair Isle 1981
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Yellow-billed Cuckoos
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[top] Cetti's Warbler Lothian 1993
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Green Heron Lothian 1987
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Serin Lothian 1911
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White-throated Sparrow Outer Hebrides 1909
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Cream-coloured Courser Clyde 1868
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Little Bustard NE Scotland 1873
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Little Bustard Shetland 1998
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Black-eared Wheatear Fair Isle 1907
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Alpine Swift Lothian 1979