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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 7th February 2026  
  The only new rarity today was a female Lesser Scaup at Lady's Island Lake in County Wexford.

Continuing rarities included Redhead in County Kerry, Harlequin Duck in County Donegal, White-winged Scoter in Fife, Baikal Teal in Glamorgan/Carmarthens, Blue-winged Teal in Moray, King Eider in Shetland, Lesser Scaups in Cornwall (2) and County Kerry, Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire, Kentish Plover in Somerset, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall, Denbighshire and County Antrim, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Pallid Harrier in Glamorgan, Eastern Black Redstart in Norfolk, Hume's Warbler in Suffolk, Dusky Warbler in Cornwall, Red-flanked Bluetail in Kent and Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall.
-  Luke Stoppard, RBA