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 9th September 2016  
  New discoveries comprised Rustic Bunting (Orkney), Baird's Sandpiper (Worcestershire), Booted Warbler (Shetland) and flyover Tawny Pipit (Essex), whilst the Cliff Swallow and Lesser Yellowlegs (Isles of Scilly), Western Purple Swamphen (Lincolnshire) and Dalmatian Pelican and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall) all lingered.

The best of the rest included Purple Heron (Oxfordshire), Icterine Warbler (Shetland), two Red-backed Shrikes, two American Wigeons and four Buff-breasted Sandpipers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA