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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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Thursday 6th December 2018  
  Lingering rarities present today included the Hume's Warbler at Lade, Kent, Dusky Warbler at Kessingland, Suffolk, Red-rumped Swallow at Cley, Norfolk, White-billed Diver at Bamburgh, Northumberland and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull at Kildavin, County Carlow.

Scarcity highlights included a Serin, three Shorelarks, four Great Grey Shrikes, approximately 131 Waxwings, a Temminck's Stint, a Rough-legged Buzzard, two Glossy Ibises, an American Wigeon, a Green-winged Teal, a Ring-necked Duck, a Todd's Canada Goose, a Black Brant, three Tundra Bean Geese, six Taiga Bean Geese, an Iceland Gull and two Glaucous Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA