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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 7th August 2020  
  Rarity highlights comprised Lammergeier in Derbyshire, Pacific Golden Plover and Gull-billed Tern in Suffolk, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cumbria and Lancashire, Spotted Sandpiper in Co Down, Bee-eater in Orkney, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, family of Black-winged Stilts in Somerset and six Wilson's Petrels from an Isles of Scilly pelagic.

The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starlings (Orkney, Shetland and Wiltshire), Purple Heron and Hoopoe (Somerset), Pectoral Sandpiper (Lancashire), Spotted Crake (Kent), Wryneck (Dorset), Red-backed Shrike and Icterine Warbler (Cornwall), Sabine's Gull (Gwynedd) and Glossy Ibis (Gwent).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA