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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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Monday 19th January 2026  
  An American Herring Gull was found at Galway, County Galway, but yesterday's probable Vega Gull was not located.

Lingering rarities included the Black-winged Kite and Eastern Black Redstart in Norfolk, three Zitting Cisticolas in Suffolk, Red-flanked Bluetail in Kent, three Penduline Tits in Somerset, Baikal Teal on the Glamorgan /Carmarthenshire border, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Black Scoter and King Eider in Highland, Lesser Scaups in Cornwall (two), Surrey, County Wexford, Leicestershire and Shropshire, Ross's Goose in Cumbria, Semipalmated Sandpiper in County Clare, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall and Denbighshire, Northern Harrier in County Wexford and Pallid Harrier in Glamorgan.
-  Will Soar, RBA