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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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Friday 8th March 2019  
  Lingering rarities comprised Pacific Diver (Cornwall), Red-rumped Swallow (Co Cork), Spotted Sandpiper (Co Wexford), Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset), Ferruginous Duck (Hampshire), Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire), Coues's Arctic Redpoll (Norfolk) and Pied-billed Grebe (Shetland).

The best of the rest included Kumlien's Gull (Cornwall), Surf Scoter (Lothian), Lapland Bunting (Norfolk), White-tailed Eagle (Shetland), two Taiga Bean Geese, American Wigeons and Yellow-browed Warblers, three Tundra Bean Geese, four Ring-necked Ducks, Great Grey Shrikes and Rough-legged Buzzards, seven Glossy Ibises and 20 Shorelarks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA