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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 17th January 2020  
  Rarity highlights comprised an American Herring Gull in Co Kerry, Black-throated Thrush in Bedfordshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Co Wexford, Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Long-billed Dowitcher in Merseyside, Lesser Yellowlegs in North Yorkshire and Blue-headed Eastern Yellow Wagtail in Norfolk.

The best of the rest included American Wigeon (Aberdeenshire), Todd's Canada Goose (Argyll), Glossy Ibis (Gwent), Purple Heron (Lancashire), Richard's Pipit (Somerset), Lapland Bunting (Cleveland), Yellow-browed Warbler (London and Somerset), Rough-legged Buzzards (Norfolk and South Yorkshire) and eight Ring-necked Ducks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA