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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Friday 5th August 2016  
  Rarity highlights included the Western Purple Swamphen (Suffolk), Semipalmated Sandpiper (Pembrokeshire), Spotted Sandpiper (Somerset/Dorset), Squacco Heron (Lincolnshire), White-rumped Sandpipers (Co Antrim, Lincolnshire and Angus) and Hudsonian Whimbrel and Dalmatian Pelican (Cornwall).

The best of the rest included Melodious Warbler (Pembrokeshire), Cattle Egret (Merseyside), White-winged Black Tern (Aberdeenshire), two Pectoral Sandpipers and two Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA