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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 19th June 2025  
  The highlight of the day was the arrival of a Collared Pratincole in West Yorkshire at St Aidan's, whilst in Lincolnshire a Savi's Warbler was discovered at Rimac.

Elsewhere, continuing rarities confirmed as still present were the Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire, Black-winged Pratincole in Shetland, Pacific Golden Plover in Cleveland, Little Bittern in Scilly, Great Reed Warblers in both East Yorkshire and Shetland, Iberian Chiffchaff in Fife, American Black Tern in Northumberland, and Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA