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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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Wednesday 26th April 2017  
  New discoveries included a Gull-billed Tern in Co Cork, Tawny Pipit in West Sussex, Long-billed Dowitcher in Co Down, White-billed Diver in Shetland and Bonaparte's Gull in Dorset.

Lingering rarities included Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, Two-barred Crossbill in Somerset, Bonaparte's Gulls in Essex, Hampshire and Oxfordshire, Savi's Warbler in Norfolk, White-billed Diver in Orkney and Little Bittern on Isles of Scilly.

The best of the rest included Yellow-browed Warbler (Somerset), White-tailed Eagle (Suffolk), Pectoral Sandpiper (Isle of Wight), Wryneck (Devon), Short-toed Lark and Golden Oriole (Isles of Scilly), four Night Herons and nine Dotterel.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA