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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Saturday 28th April 2018  
  Highlight of the day was the discovery of a Green Heron in Pembrokeshire, whilst new discoveries elsewhere included Olive-backed Pipit (East Yorkshire), Red-rumped Swallows (two in Lincolnshire and singles in Essex, the Essex/Hertfordshire and in Norfolk), Black-winged Stilt (Cambridgeshire) and White-billed Diver (Co Donegal).

The best of the rest included American Bittern (Suffolk), King Eider (Aberdeenshire), Bonaparte's Gulls (Devon and Dorset), Red-rumped Swallows (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire), Savi's Warblers (Hampshire and Suffolk), White-billed Divers (14 in Moray and Western Isles), Black-winged Stilt (Norfolk) and Laughing Gull (Isles of Scilly).

Two Wrynecks in East Yorkshire, Purple Herons in East Yorkshire and Co Wexford, a Dotterel in Lincolnshire and Yellow-browed Warbler in East Sussex were the best of the scarcities.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA