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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.

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Saturday 18th January 2025  
  Discoveries today included a Pacific Diver in Cornwall at Perranuthoe, in Buckinghamshire, a Ferruginous Duck was found at Furzton, and in Devon, a Lesser Scaup was found at Burrows Country Park.

Lingering rarities seen today included the Booted Eagle and Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, White-winged Scoter in Angus, American Coot, Bufflehead, and Ross's Goose in Shetland, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Ferruginous Ducks in London and Warwickshire, Lesser Scaups in County Wexford(2), Dorset and Essex, Pallid Harriers in County Cork, Pembrokeshire, and Norfolk and Lesser Yellowlegs in Hampshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA