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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Thursday 11th June 2026  
  Discoveries today included a Zitting Cisticola new in Kent at St Margaret's at Cliffe, and the first Caspian Tern of the year at Blithfield Reservoir, Staffordshire.

Continuing rarities comprised the Western Reef Heron still in Gwynedd, Black-winged Kite still in Norfolk, White-winged Scoter in Fife, American Black Tern in Northumberland, and single Red-footed Falcons in County Louth, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA