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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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Wednesday 24th December 2025  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a male Eastern Black Redstart in Norfolk at Sheringham, whilst another remained at Filey, North Yorkshire.

Elsewhere rarities comprised the Ross's Goose still in Argyll, Pacific Diver, Dusky Warbler, and two Lesser Scaups in Cornwall, Pallid Harrier in Glamorgan, King Eiders in Highland and Shetland, Hume's Warbler in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Angus, three Penduline Tits together in Gloucestershire, and Ferruginous Ducks still in Hertfordshire, and new at Lackford Lakes, Suffolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA