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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Wednesday 4th March 2026  
  There were no new rarities found today, but plenty of good birds were still around, including Forster's Tern in Dorset, Harlequin Duck in County Donegal, Redhead in County Kerry, Stejneger's Scoter, or possibly hybrid, in Fife, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Black Scoter in County Kerry, Ross's Goose and Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, Baikal Teal in Glamorgan, Lesser Scaups in Northamptonshire, Worcestershire (2) and County Wexford, Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Pacific Divers in Cornwall and County Donegal, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall and Denbighshire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Angus and Orkney, Bonaparte's Gull and Dusky Warbler in Cornwall, Red-flanked Bluetail in Kent and Hume's Warblers in Suffolk and Warwickshire but there was no sign today of the Eastern Black Redstart in Norfolk.
-  Pete Hayman, RBA