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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Wednesday 3rd January 2024  
  A Northern Waterthrush in Essex at Heybridge was the clear highlight of today, with a new Lesser Scaup in County Armagh at Lough Neagh being notable

Lingering rarities included the Black-throated Thrush in Yorkshire, Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Red-breasted Geese in Norfolk, Essex, Northumberland and Lancashire, Pallid Harriers in Norfolk and Carmarthenshire, Kentish Plover in Somerset, Lesser Yellowlegs in Yorkshire and Suffolk, and Bonaparte's Gulls in Cornwall (two) and County Antrim.
-  Ben Clark, RBA