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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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Saturday 21st April 2018  
  New discoveries included Black Kite (East Sussex) and Red-rumped Swallow (Suffolk), whilst American Bittern (Suffolk), American White-winged Scoter (Aberdeenshire), Bonaparte's Gulls (Cornwall and Dorset), Savi's Warblers (Hampshire and Suffolk), Laughing Gull (Isles of Scilly), Ferruginous Duck (Powys), Long-billed Dowitcher (Northumberland) and two White-billed Divers (Moray) all lingered.

The best of the rest included American Golden Plover (Co Wexford), Dotterel (Orkney), Purple Heron (Cornwall), Wryneck (Kent), White Stork (Northamptonshire), two Woodchat Shrikes, four Hoopoes and four Serins.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA