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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Tuesday 9th September 2025  
  New discoveries today included a Semipalmated Sandpiper at Millbrook, Cornwall, a Citrine Wagtail at Lerwick, Shetland, single Greenish Warblers at Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire and on North Ronaldsay, Orkney and the Black Duck returned to Cross Lough, County Mayo.

Lingering rarities included the Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, Zitting Cisticola in Suffolk, Greenish Warbler in Yorkshire, Marsh Sandpiper in Lothian, Lesser Yellowlegs in Carmarthenshire, Baird's Sandpipers in Cornwall, County Mayo and Western Isles, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire and Black Kite in Cornwall.
-  Will Soar, RBA