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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 12th June 2022  
  Rarities today comprised the Least Tern again in County Dublin, Black-browed Albatross still in East Yorkshire, both Collared Pratincole and Black Kite in Devon, Little Bittern on the Isles of Scilly, American Black Tern in Northumberland, territorial Great Reed Warblers in both Norfolk and Nottinghamshire, Iberian Chiffchaff in London, King Eider in Lothian, Ferruginous Duck in Staffordshire, and two Bee-eaters in Suffolk.

Scarcities included Purple Heron (South Yorkshire), Ring-billed Gull (Western Isles), Marsh Warbler and Common Rosefinch (Shetland Isles), Grey-headed Wagtail (County Donegal), three Rose-coloured Starlings, and a total of 12 Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA