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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.

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Friday 20th November 2020  
  New discoveries today included a Hooded Merganser at Forfar Loch, Angus, a Red-throated Pipit at Huntspill, Somerset and a Dusky Warbler at Lower Moors, Scilly.

Lingering rarities included the Desert Wheatear and Dusky Warbler in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Yorkshire and Lesser Yellowlegs in County Waterford and Yorkshire.

Scarcity highlights included a Pallas's Warbler, a Red-breasted Flycatcher, a Little Bunting, a Rose-coloured Starling, a Shorelark, a Waxwing, two Great Grey Shrikes, five Lapland Buntings, an American Wigeon, two Ring-necked Ducks, a Todd's Canada Goose,  six Glossy Ibises, four Little Auks, a Kumlien's Gull, three Glaucous Gulls and seven Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA