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 17th February 2025  
  Rarities today comprised Booted Eagle and Pacific Diver both still in Cornwall, American Coot, Bufflehead, Ross's Goose, and White-billed Diver all still in Shetland, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Least Sandpiper in Somerset, Penduline Tit in Cheshire, Red-breasted Goose in Argyll, Pallid Harriers in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Ferruginous Ducks in Cambridgeshire and London, Lesser Scaups in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, and Essex, and Richardson's Cackling Geese in Argyll, Dumfries & Galloway, and County Sligo.

What was probably a Wallcreeper was seen briefly in flight at Pentire Point, Cornwall.
-  Chris Batty, RBA