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 3rd January 2021  
 

Lingering rarities included the Sociable Lapwing in Cornwall, Buffleheads in Co.Cork and Co.Down, Eastern Black Redstart in Norfolk, Lesser Scaup in Co.Waterford, Eastern Yellow Wagtail and Hooded Merganser in Suffolk, Rustic Bunting in Surrey, King Eiders in Shetland and Moray, Dusky Warblers in Cheshire and Kent, and Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon. The Forster's Tern reappeared in Co.Galway.

Other highlights from today included Rough-legged Buzzard (Suffolk), Richard's Pipit (Sussex), Waxwing (Norfolk), two Little Buntings (Surrey), Shorelark (Northumberland), Black-bellied Dipper (Shetland), Rose-coloured Starling (Dorset), five Yellow-browed Warblers, two Great Grey Shrikes, four Ring-billed Gulls, five Green-winged Teal, nine Ring-necked Ducks, Black Brant (East Yorkshire), four Taiga Bean Geese, 32 Tundra Bean Geese, Kumlien's Gull (Cambridgeshire), eight Glaucous Gulls, 35 Iceland Gulls, two Little Auks (Highland), Pomarine Skua (Devon) and 12 Glossy Ibises.
-  David Campbell, RBA