On the evening of 13th October 2019, RB received an e-mail from Dave Parker, the County Recorder for Cornwall, asking for help in tracking down and confirming the identification of a Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus that had recently been taken to a rehabilitation centre in north Cornwall. It had been found in an exhausted state in Mevagissey, Cornwall, earlier in the day. After making a few phone calls, RB established that the bird was at the Cornish Birds of Prey Centre but had died not long after arrival.