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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Friday 4th April 2025  
  New discoveries today included two Cackling Geese at Balranald, Western Isles, a Ferruginous Duck at Heathrow, London, a Black Kite at Llyn Penryn, Anglesey and Alpine Swifts at Selsey, Sussex, Marazion, Cornwall and Sheep's Head, County Cork.

Lingering rarities included the Alpine Accentor and Booted Eagle in Cornwall, American Coot in Shetland, Least Sandpiper in Sussex, Long-billed Dowitcher and Black Kite in Devon, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Lesser Scaups in Somerset and Gloucestershire and Western Subalpine Warbler in County Cork.
-  Will Soar, RBA