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Catch up with RBA's daily birdnews summaries. Browse ten days at a time, or choose a date to read summaries from that day backwards.

Daily summaries are available from 13 April 2006. For earlier weekly reviews, visit our articles.

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Friday 12th March 2010  
  Long staying rarities seen today included the Bufflehead in Dorset, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lancashire, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Black Kite in Powys, three Glossy Ibises in Somerset, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, Little Bunting in Highland and single Lesser Scaups in Cornwall and Clyde.

Scarcity highlights included five Great Grey Shrikes, a Rough-legged Buzzard, a Shorelark, 46 Waxwings, a Ring-billed Gull, five Glaucous Gulls, an Iceland Gull, two Caspian Gulls, six Snow Geese, two Great White Egrets, two Ring-necked Ducks and an American Wigeon.
-  Will Soar, RBA