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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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Monday 4th July 2016  
  Lingering rarities comprised Great Knot (Norfolk), American White-winged Scoter (Aberdeenshire), Little Bittern (South Yorkshire), Bonaparte's Gull (Northumberland) and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall), whilst the long-staying Dalmatian Pelican had reportedly moved east into Devon, a Bee-eater flew over Cromer (Norfolk) and a Wilson's Petrel was logged from an Isles of Scilly pelagic.

The best of the rest included Red-backed Shrike (Kent), Serins (Dorset and Cornwall), Red-necked Phalarope (Northumberland), Common Rosefinch (London) and four Glossy Ibies.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA