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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Tuesday 20th July 2021  
  A Lesser Yellowlegs was discovered in Dublin today, at Booterstown Marsh, whilst lingering rarities comprised Black-browed Albatross (East Yorkshire), Elegant Tern (Anglesey), Short-billed Dowitcher (Co Cork), Bonaparte's Gulls (Kent and Shetland), Pacific Golden Plover (Lincolnshire) and White-rumped Sandpiper (Suffolk).

Significant late news related to an American Black Tern at Long Nanny (Northumberland) on Friday, where it had been present for almost two months.

Scarcity highlights included Melodious Warbler (Wirral), seven Rose-coloured Starlings, Pectoral Sandpiper and Golden Oriole (Norfolk), Temminck's Stint (Hampshire), Common Rosefinch (Cornwall) and Hoopoe (Cambridgeshire).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA