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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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Sunday 16th May 2021  
 

The day's best finds were a Collared Pratincole at Higham Marshes in Kent, Caspian Tern in Norwich in Norfolk, Black Kite on Fair Isle and Red-rumped Swallow at The Naze in Essex.

The Double-crested Cormorant was still in Co.Kerry, with other long-stayers including the Hooded Merganser in Shetland, Savi's Warblers in Carmarthenshire and North Yorkshire, Iberian Chiffchaff in Suffolk, Pied-billed Grebe in Lancashire, Snowy Owl in Western Isles, Gull-billed Tern in Co.Donegal, Whiskered Tern in Dorset and King Eider in Aberdeenshire.

The best of the rest included Woodchat Shrike (Gwynedd), Serin (Cornwall), Red-backed Shrike (Shetland), Long-tailed Skua (Carmarthenshire), Rough-legged Buzzard (Shetland), Dotterel (Northumberland), two Purple Herons and Grey-headed Wagtails, eight Temminck's Stints, 12 Golden Orioles, two Ring-necked Ducks, three Glossy Ibises and four Honey Buzzards.
-  David Campbell, RBA