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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Saturday 12th March 2022  
 

Rarities still present today included the Egyptian Vulture in County Roscommon, Double-crested Cormorant in County Leitrim, White-tailed Lapwing in Lincolnshire, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Ross's Gull in County Galway, Ross's Goose in Aberdeenshire, single Baikal Teals in Somerset and Yorkshire, Kentish Plover in Somerset, Hume's Warbler in Sussex and Kent, Red-breasted Goose in Norfolk and Essex, White-billed Diver in Northumberland, 2 Penduline Tits in Somerset, Black Duck in County Mayo, Lesser Yellowlegs in Suffolk and 5 Lesser Scaups (2 in Clyde plus 3 in Argyll).

Scarcity highlights included a Serin, 3 Great Grey Shrikes, 13 Shorelarks, 14 Lapland Buntings, an American Wigeon, two Surf Scoters, 10 Ring-necked Ducks, 2 Todd's Canada Geese, 2 Black Brants, two Lesser Snow Geese, 7 Tundra Bean Geese, 17 Glossy Ibises, 4 Kumlien's Gulls, 6 Ring-billed Gulls, 6 Glaucous Gulls and 15 Iceland Gulls.

 
-  Toby Carter, RBA