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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Tuesday 20th June 2017  
  New discoveries today included a Caspian Tern in Lancashire, at Holden Wood Reservoir then Leighton Moss RSPB, a Greenish Warbler at Landguard, Suffolk, a second singing Savi's Warbler at Minsmere RSPB, also Suffolk and a Red-footed Falcon at Sandwich Bay, Kent.

Lingering rarities included the Elegant Tern in West Sussex, Iberian Chiffchaff in Cheshire, Little Bittern in Somerset, Bonaparte's Gull in County Derry, two Black-winged Stilts in Cambridgeshire and King Eider in Aberdeenshire.

Scarcities included a Surf Scoter, a Red-necked Phalarope, a Glossy Ibis, a Balearic Shearwater, a Glaucous Gull, three Iceland Gulls and seven Cattle Egrets.
-  Will Soar, RBA