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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Wednesday 30th July 2025  
  New headline birds included a Least Tern at Laytown in County Meath, a Black Kite over Portland in Dorset, and a Caspian Tern in Poole Harbour, also in Dorset.

Continuing rarities included White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk, Kent and East Yorkshire, a Black Stork in Suffolk, a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, a Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire, a Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford, a Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire and Greater Manchester, a Caspian Tern in Leicestershire, a Black-winged Pratincole in the Western Isles, an American Black Tern in Lothian, and White-winged Scoters in Angus and Lothian.
-  Ben Clark, RBA