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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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Tuesday 25th February 2025  
  Discoveries today included in Ireland a King Eider new in County Mayo on The Mullet, and a Lesser Scaup at Portmore Lough, County Antrim.

Continuing rarities comprised the Black-throated Thrush still in Hampshire, Bufflehead still in Shetland, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Eastern Yellow Wagtail in Lincolnshire, Pallid Harriers in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Bonaparte's Gull in County Kerry, Lesser Scaup in Derbyshire, Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire, and in County Mayo three Richardson's Cackling Geese and an Azorean Yellow-legged Gull.
-  Chris Batty, RBA