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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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Thursday 17th April 2025  
  A Black Kite was found in Kent at Abbot's Cliff, a Pacific Diver at Ballyhiernan Bay in County Donegal, and a Pallid Harrier appeared in Suffolk at Corton.

Continuing rarities today comprised the Western Subalpine Warbler in Shetland, Pacific Diver in County Mayo, Black Scoter in Fife, Black Kite in Suffolk, Whiskered Tern in Somerset, Savi's Warbler and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Cornwall, Ferruginous Duck in Shropshire, and Lesser Scaups in Gloucestershire, Dorset, and East Yorkshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA