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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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Tuesday 13th April 2021  
  Rarities today comprised the Double-crested Cormorant still in County Kerry, White-throated Sparrow still in East Sussex, American Herring Gull in Cornwall, Two-barred Crossbill in Nottinghamshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Gloucestershire, Penduline Tit in Somerset, Dusky Warbler in Merseyside, White-billed Diver on the Shetland Isles, two King Eiders still together in County Donegal, Red-rumped Swallow in Kent, and Bee-eaters briefly in both Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Scarcities included Night Heron (Devon), Wryneck (Suffolk), American Wigeon (Shetland Isles), Black Brant (County Dublin), Kumlien's Gull (Cambridgeshire), two each of Hoopoe, Great Grey Shrike, and Grey Phalarope, three Surf Scoters, five Green-winged Teals, six Little Buntings, nine Glossy Ibises, 10 Ring-necked Ducks, and a total of 27 Lapland Buntings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA