Daily news summaries

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.

Choose a starting date
Tuesday 7th July 2020  
 

A potential Yelkouan Shearwater was photographed off Portland Bill in the morning and in the evening a Wilson's Petrel was seen during a Scilly pelagic.

The day's continuing rarities were the Iberian Chiffchaff in Suffolk, Pacific Golden Plover in Co.Clare, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Highland, Lesser Yellowlegs in North Yorkshire, Black-winged Stilt in Kent and the Bonaparte's Gulls in Kent and Co.Louth. The Lammergeier continued to roam the Derbyshire moors.

Also reported today were 10 Rose-coloured Starlings (eight of which were on the Western Isles), Surf Scoter (Shetland), two Long-tailed Skuas (Western Isles), Sabine's Gull (Western Isles) and Cory's Shearwater (Co.Waterford).
-  David Campbell, RBA