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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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Monday 31st December 2018  
  Lingering rarities still present today included the Dusky Warblers in Warwickshire and Dorset, Pacific Diver in Cornwall, Lesser Scaup in Anglesey, King Eider in Ceredigion and Ferruginous Duck in Hampshire.

Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling, four Great Grey Shrikes, four Lapland Buntings, 28 Shorelarks, around 163 Waxwings, a Black-bellied Dipper, a Temminck's Stint, a White-tailed Eagle, three Rough-legged Buzzards, a Green-winged Teal, two American Wigeon, five Ring-necked Ducks, two Black Brants, seven Tundra Bean Geese, 18 Taiga Bean Geese, a Kumlien's Gull, seven Glaucous Gulls and 16 Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA