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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 24th April 2024  
  Discoveries today included late news of a Pallid Harrier at East Coast NR in County Wicklow, White-billed Diver that flew north past Whitburn in County Durham, and later St.Mary's Island in Northumberland, Red-rumped Swallow at Formby Point in Merseyside, two Gull-billed Terns at Orosay in Western Isles, Iberian Chiffchaff at Ken Hill in Norfolk, and Bee-eater in Hermon in Anglesey.

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Slate-coloured Junco in Cleveland, Red-rumped Swallow in Kent, Black Kite on Scilly, Ferruginous Duck in Kent, Savi's Warbler in East Yorkshire, Marsh Sandpiper in Hampshire, Savi's Warbler in East Yorkshire, Red-breasted Goose and Black-winged Stilt together in Lincolnshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, White-billed Divers in Moray and Aberdeenshire, and Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire and County Louth (2).
-  Ben Clark, RBA