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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Saturday 4th May 2024  
  New discoveries today included a Bonaparte's Gull at St Kilda in Western Isles, another Bonaparte's Gull at Buckroney Marsh in County Wicklow, two White-billed Divers at Loch Scridain in Argyll, Lesser Scaup at Swillington Ings, in West Yorkshire, White-billed Diver at Port Nis, Western Isles, a Spanish Wagtail at Glascoe, Isle of Man, and late news of a Bonaparte's Gull at Cotswold Water Park in Gloucestershire.

Lingering rarities included the Collared Flycatcher in East Yorkshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Essex and East Yorkshire, Black-winged Stilts in Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Red-breasted Goose in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, Savi's Warbler in County Louth, Bonaparte's Gull in Dorset and White-billed Diver in Moray.
-  Ben Clark, RBA