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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 1st May 2022  
 

More Red-rumped Swallows were found with 3 on Scilly and single birds in Cornwall, Northumberland and Norfolk. A Black Kite was in Kent.

Other lingering rarities included the Red-breasted Goose and Dusky Warbler in Norfolk, King Eiders in Cleveland and Lothian, Ross’s Gull in County Galway, White-billed Diver in Moray and Black-browed Albatross in East Yorkshire

Scarcity highlights included 3 Wrynecks, 3 Hoopoes, 2 Serins, an American Wigeon, 6 Ring-necked Ducks, a Honey Buzzard, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, 5 Dotterel, 2 Purple Herons, 21 Glossy Ibises, 53 Pomarine Skuas, a Glaucous Gull and 5 Iceland Gulls
-  Toby Carter, RBA