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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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Saturday 1st May 2021  
 

The best new finds today were a Collared Pratincole near Kirkby in Merseyside, Black Stork over Burley in Hampshire, Bonaparte's Gull at Dunnet in Highland, and Red-footed Falcons in Kent and Scilly.

Still present were the Double-crested Cormorant in Co.Kerry, Gull-billed Tern in Co.Donegal, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Eastern Subalpine Warbler in Shetland, Red-throated Pipit on Scilly, Bonaparte's Gulls in Glamorgan (two) and Worcestershire. There were five White-billed Divers in Shetland, and singles in Moray and Aberdeenshire.

Further highlights included three Woodchat Shrikes, Little Bunting (Fair Isle), Grey-headed Wagtail (Norfolk), Hoopoe (Suffolk), Wryneck (Norfolk), three Dotterel and Temminck's Stints, four Purple Herons, Great Grey Shrike (Hampshire), Balearic Shearwater (Sussex), Ring-necked Duck (Dorset), four Surf Scoters and eight Glossy Ibises.
-  David Campbell, RBA