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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 6th March 2023  
 

Rarities present today were the American Herring Gull in Highland, Double-crested Cormorant in County Leitrim, Forster's Tern in County Galway, Baikal Teal in Gwynedd, Hume's Warbler in Kent, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, White-rumped Sandpiper in Gloucestershire, King Eider in Cleveland, and Lesser Scaup in Oxfordshire.

Scarcities included Pallas's Warbler, American Wigeon, Snow Goose, Kumlien's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, two Little Buntings, Surf Scoter, two Green-winged Teal, 2 Todd's Canada Goose, five Waxwings, five Tundra Bean Geese, three Black Brant, four Glaucous Gulls, 11 Iceland Gulls, six Glossy Ibises, 11 Shorelarks, and a total of 12 Ring-necked Ducks.

Incoming summer migrants included two House Martins, and a Wheatear.
-  Ben Clark, RBA