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.

Choose a starting date
Tuesday 5th August 2014  
  New discoveries included a Caspian Tern at Exmouth (Devon) and a Rustic Bunting on Unst (Shetland). The Stilt Sandpiper in Northumberland, Black-winged Pratincole in Cambridgeshire, White-rumped Sandpiper in Norfolk, Black-winged Stilts in West Sussex, Pacific Golden Plover on Orkney and Bee-eaters on Isle of Wight all lingered.

The best of the rest included at least 46 Great Shearwaters, at least 11 Cory's Shearwaters, five Glossy Ibises, at least three Long-tailed Skuas, three Cattle Egrets, two Pectoral Sandpipers, Night Heron (Warwickshire), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Barred Warbler (Shetland) and Spotted Crake (London).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA