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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 16th August 2019  
  Rarity highlights comprised remaining Blue-winged Teal (Clyde), Bonaparte's Gull (Co Clare), Long-billed Dowitcher and White-rumped Sandpiper (Co Wexford) and Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire), whilst four Wilson's Petrels were logged from an Isles of Scilly pelagic.

The best of the rest included Glossy Ibis (Devon), Ring-necked Duck (Essex), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Lincolnshire), Icterine Warbler and two Red-necked Phalaropes (Shetland) and two Surf Scoters (Angus and Lothian).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA