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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 21st April 2026  
  New rarities today consisted of a Black Kite at Ashton, Cornwall, Pallid Harrier at Nybster, Highland, and King Eider at Lerwick harbour, Shetland.

Rarities included Lesser Scaup in Hertfordshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall and Lancashire, Hume's Warbler in Suffolk and Warwickshire, White-winged Scoter in Fife, Black Scoter in Fife, Stejneger's Scoter in Fife, Dusky Warbler in Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitcher in Angus, Iberian Chiffchaff in Suffolk, Black Kite in Cornwall, Forster's Tern in Dorset, and Zitting Cisticola in Suffolk.
-  Ben Clark, RBA