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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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Saturday 23rd August 2025  
  The highlight of the day was a Bridled Tern in Fife that lingered at Fife Ness for over three hours, and in Lincolnshire a Black-winged Pratincole was discovered at Kirton in Lindsey.

Rarities confirmed as still present were the family of up to five Zitting Cisticolas and the Black Stork in Suffolk, Marsh Sandpiper in Devon, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Western Bonelli's Warblers in Pembrokeshire and Scilly, Eastern Subalpine Warbler in Shetland, Long-billed Dowitchers in both Orkney and County Wexford, White-rumped Sandpipers in East Yorkshire and County Wexford, Bonaparte's Gull in Aberdeenshire, Black Kite in Cornwall, and two Lesser Scaups together in Staffordshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA