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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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Saturday 24th August 2024  
  The highlight of the day was yet another South Polar Skua and a Fea's Petrel species at sea off the Isles of Scilly whilst in Flintshire the Hudsonian Godwit remained at Flint Castle where it was joined by a Lesser Yellowlegs.

Elsewhere rarities comprised the Stejneger's Scoter still in Lothian, Canvasback still in Essex, Franklin's Gull and Semipalmated Sandpiper together in Cornwall, Baird's Sandpiper in Lincolnshire, Spotted Sandpiper in Pembrokeshire, Citrine Wagtail on the Shetland Isles, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire, Blue-winged Teal in East Yorkshire, and White-rumped Sandpipers in Cleveland, County Dublin, County Kerry, Lincolnshire, Moray, and Norfolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA