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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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Wednesday 25th January 2023  
 

Rarities today comprised the Harlequin Duck still on the Western Isles, White-winged Scoter still in County Mayo, both Isabelline Wheatear and American Herring Gull in Cornwall, Baikal Teal in Nottinghamshire, Pallid Harrier in Norfolk, Hume's Warblers in Kent and Somerset, Penduline Tits in County Cork (3) and Somerset, King Eider in Cleveland, Lesser Scaups in Somerset and Surrey, and Ferruginous Ducks in Norfolk and County Tyrone.

Scarcities included Serin (Cornwall), Sabine's Gull (Hampshire), Black Brant (East Yorkshire), two Yellow-browed Warblers, three Green-winged Teals, four Ring-billed Gulls, nine Ring-necked Ducks, 19 Shorelarks, and a total of 45 Waxwings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA