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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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Monday 11th July 2022  
  Rarities today comprised the Turkestan Shrike and Black-browed Albatross both still together in East Yorkshire, Pied-billed Grebe still in Argyll, White-rumped Sandpiper and five Bee-eaters in Norfolk, American Black Tern still in Northumberland, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, a Black Kite briefly in Cambridgeshire, and the family of six Black-winged Sitlts in South Yorkshire.

Scarcities included Red-backed Shrike (South Yorkshire), Night Heron (Kent), Sabine's Gull (Lancashire), Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire), Ring-billed Gull (County Clare), two Temminck's Stints, three Glaucous Gulls, and a total of seven Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA