Daily news summaries

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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Sunday 7th July 2013  
  Quality discoveries today included a flyover Two-barred Crossbill at Whitburn, County Durham and a Caspian Tern from a ferry in the Irish Sea, just east of Carnsore Point, County Wexford, whilst the only twitchable new rarity was a Lesser Yellowlegs at Llanelli WWT, Carmarthenshire.

Lingering rarities included the Bridled Tern in Northumberland, two Gull-billed Terns in County Wexford, three Little Bitterns in Somerset, single Bonaparte's Gulls in London and Kent and King Eider in Aberdeenshire.

Scarcity highlights included a Common Rosefinch, two Pomarine Skuas, a Temminck's Stint, two Surf Scoters and a Ring-necked Duck.
-  Will Soar, RBA