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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.

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Thursday 17th January 2019  
 

Continuing rarities comprised the Hume's Warbler in East Sussex, two Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Lothian, Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire and Somerset, Ferruginous Duck in Hampshire, White-billed Diver in Western Isles.

Scarcities included four Great Grey Shrikes, a Lapland Bunting, 20 Shorelarks, a Rose-coloured Starling, a Serin, 12 Yellow-browed Warblers, four Rough-legged Buzzards, two Ring-billed Gulls, 10 Iceland Gulls, 11 Glaucous Gulls, 21 Glossy Ibises, a Todd's Canada Goose, a Black Brant, eight Taiga Bean Geese, nine Tundra Bean Geese, two American Wigeon, two Surf Scoters, two Green-winged Teal and six Ring-necked Ducks.
-  David Campbell, RBA