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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.

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Friday 22nd May 2026  
  New rarities today consisted of a Whiskered Tern at Woolhampton GPs in Berkshire, a Red-footed Falcon at The Naze in Essex, and a Subalpine Warbler at Landguard NR in Suffolk.

Rarities included a Spotted Sandpiper in Warwickshire, a Red-footed Falcon in Dorset, an Iberian Chiffchaff in County Durham, King Eiders in Highland and Shetland, a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, a Kentish Plover in Leicestershire, a Black Scoter in Fife, White-winged Scoters in Fife, an American Black Tern in Northumberland, and a Lesser Scaup in Buckinghamshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA