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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 6th March 2020  
  Rarity highlights comprised Black-throated Thrush (Lincolnshire), White-winged Scoter (Lothian), Black Scoter (Angus), Richardson's Cackling Geese (Argyll and Highland), West Siberian Stonechat (Cheshire), Bonaparte's Gull (Co Wexford), Long-billed Dowitcher (Devon and Co Wicklow), Blue-winged Teal (Devon), Penduline Tit (Dorset), Lesser Scaup (Dumfries & Galloway), Lesser Yellowlegs (North Yorkshire) and Ferruginous Duck (West Midlands).

The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Anglesey), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), American Wigeon (Northumberland), Snow Goose (Western Isles), two Richard's Pipits, Yellow-browed Warblers, Black Brants and Glossy Ibises, three Pomarine Skuas, at least three Surf Scoters, four Green-winged Teals, five Shorelarks, eight Great Grey Shrikes and ten Ring-necked Ducks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA