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.

Choose a starting date
Saturday 8th March 2025  
  On the border of County Leitrim and County Longford a Lesser Scaup was found at Drumshanbo Lough. In Lothian there was a new White-billed Diver in Gullane Bay.

Lingering rarities included the Booted Eagle in Cornwall, Pacific Diver in County Cork, White-winged Scoters in Lothian and Fife, Black Scoter on The Wirral, Bufflehead in Shetland, Lesser Scaups in Dorset, Devon, Clyde and County Wexford (2) Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire, Kentish Plover in Somerset and Pallid Harrier in Norfolk.
-  Pete Hayman, RBA