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 19th September 2021  
 

The day's finds included Tawny Pipits in Sussex and Scilly, Pallid Harrier at Kilminning in Fife, Baird's Sandpiper in Co.Kerry and up to two Long-billed Dowitchers in the Western Isles.

Continuing rarities included White-tailed Lapwing and Black-browed Albatross in East Yorkshire, Squacco Heron in Flintshire, Snowy Owl in Aberdeenshire, Pacific Golden Plover in Northumberland; Baird's Sandpipers in Co.Cork, Scilly and Western Isles (two); Lesser Yellowlegs in Suffolk and Co.Wexford, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, and King Eider and Greenish Warbler in Shetland.

Other national news included Surf Scoter (Lothian), American Golden Plover (Shetland), five Dotterel, four Buff-breasted Sandpipers, 37 Pectoral Sandpipers, Sabine's Gull (Ceredigion), Ring-billed Gull (Co.Galway), five Glossy Ibises, two Purple Herons, Hoopoe (Glamorgan), 13 Wrynecks, two Red-backed Shrikes, Woodchat Shrike (Fair Isle), Melodious Warbler (Scilly), Icterine Warbler (Co.Cork), two Barred Warblers, six Rose-coloured Starlings, Bluethroat (East Yorkshire), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Shetland), Richard's Pipit (Fair Isle) and four Common Rosefinches.
-  David Campbell, RBA