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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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Saturday 15th August 2015  
  New discoveries included Baird's Sandpiper (Devon), two Greenish Warblers (Northumberland), Aquatic Warbler (Shetland), White-rumped Sandpiper (Aberdeenshire), Wilson's Petrels (Co Cork [2] and Isles of Scilly), Bee-eater (Ayrshire) and Thrush Nightingale (Northumberland). A Black Stork and Red-footed Falcon (Lincolnshire), Paddyfield Warbler (Shetland), White-rumped Sandpipers (East Yorkshire and Western Isles) and Bonaparte's Gull (Kent) all lingered.

The best of the rest included White-winged Black Tern (Devon), Rose-coloured Starling (Highland), Bluethroat (Somersert), American Golden Plover (Orkney), White Stork, Purple Heron and Serin (Suffolk), Cattle Egret (Kent), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), two Icterine Warblers, two Pectoral Sandpipers, four Red-backed Shrikes and five Wrynecks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA