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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Monday 20th June 2022  
  The highlight of the day was the return of the Black-browed Albatross to Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Little Bittern still in Warwickshire, American Black Tern in Northumberland, territorial Great Reed Warblers in both Norfolk and Nottinghamshire, Iberian Chiffchaff in London, King Eider in Lothian, Red-rumped Swallow on the Orkney Isles, Bee-eaters in Aberdeenshire and Norfolk (6), and the family party of six Black-winged Stilts still in South Yorkshire.

Scarcities included a Rose-coloured Starling on the Isles of Scilly, and a total of 10 Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA