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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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Tuesday 16th December 2025  
  At least two Penduline Tits were at Aust, Gloucestershire, a Black Scoter was at Dornoch, Highland and a Lesser Scaup was at Lough Clubir, County Cork.

Lingering rarities included the Harlequin Duck and two Richardson's Cackling Geese in County Donegal, Bufflehead in County Kerry, King Eiders in Highland and Shetland, Ferruginous Duck in Lincolnshire, Lesser Scaups in Essex and Surrey, two more Lesser Scaups, Pacific Diver and Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall, another Lesser Yellowlegs in County Antrim, Long-billed Dowitcher in Angus, Kentish Plover in Somerset, Spotted Sandpiper and Dusky Warbler in County Waterford, two Hume's Warblers in Norfolk and Eastern Black Redstart in Yorkshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA