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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 28th April 2026  
  The new rarity today was a Black Kite at Manby, Lincolnshire.

Rarities included Lesser Scaup in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Suffolk, White-winged Scoter in Fife, Stejneger's Scoter in Fife, Iberian Chiffchaffs in County Durham, Suffolk, and the Western Isles, King Eider in Highland and Shetland, Hooded Merganser in Warwickshire, Pacific Diver in County Mayo, Bonaparte's Gulls in Cornwall and Dorset, Zitting Cisticola in Suffolk, Marsh Sandpiper in Aberdeenshire, Forster's Tern in Dorset, and Elegant Tern in County Galway.
-  Ben Clark, RBA