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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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Sunday 28th June 2020  
  New discoveries today included a Laughing Gull at Belvide Reservoir, Staffordshire, Alpine Swifts at Winterton, Norfolk and Pitcox, Lothian, a Red-rumped Swallow on Foula, Shetland, a Bee-eater over Portland, Dorset, a Red-footed Falcon near Rosenannon, Cornwall and a Wilson's Petrel off Bridges of Ross, County Clare.

Lingering rarities included the Greater Sand Plover in Lothian, Gull-billed Tern and Black-winged Stilt in Kent (with another of the former still in County Cork), Lesser Grey Shrike in Shetland, Bonaparte's Gull in Argyll, Lesser Yellowlegs and Red-footed Falcon in Yorkshire, Blyth's Reed Warbler in Cumbria, Iberian Chiffchaff in Suffolk and King Eider in Moray.

Scarcity highlights included a Common Rosefinch, a Red-backed Shrike, nine Rose-coloured Starlings, three Honey Buzzards, a Spotted Crake, two Red-necked Phalaropes, a Pomarine Skua, a Surf Scoter, an American Wigeon, three Glaucous Gulls, six Roseate Terns and six Balearic Shearwaters.
-  Will Soar, RBA