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.

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Sunday 9th August 2020  
  New discoveries today included a Caspian Tern at Hickling Broad, Norfolk and a White-billed Diver at South Nesting, Shetland, whilst a Pacific Golden Plover was present for a second day at Boulmer, Northumberland.

Lingering rarities included the Gull-billed Tern in Suffolk, single Spotted Sandpipers in Cornwall and County Down, two Black-winged Stilts in Somerset, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent and Lammergeier in Derbyshire.

Scarcity highlights included a Common Rosefinch, two Icterine Warblers, two Purple Herons, two Glossy Ibises, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Temminck's Stint, five Honey Buzzards, three Cory's and four Great Shearwaters, a Long-tailed Skua and a Surf Scoter.
-  Will Soar, RBA