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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Monday 6th May 2024  
  New discoveries today included an Eastern Subalpine Warbler at Quendale, Shetland, a Pallid Harrier at Cleeve Common, Gloucestershire, a Black Kite at Doffocker, Greater Manchester, a Gull-billed Tern at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, a Whiskered Tern at Dungeness, Kent, a Ferruginous Duck at Whelford, Gloucestershire and an Alpine Swift over Edmonston, London. A Thrush Nightingale was on Whalsay, Shetland for its third day.

Lingering rarities included the Savi's Warblers in Yorkshire and County Louth, two Gull-billed Terns in Western Isles, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and County Louth, Black-winged Stilts in Essex, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Lesser Scaup in County Donegal and four White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA