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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 16th June 2026  
  New rarities today consisted of a Black Kite at Ashford in Kent, a Squacco Heron at Dungeness in Kent, a Gull-billed Tern at Sizewell in Suffolk, a Broad-billed Sandpiper at Laxo in Shetland Mainland, and a Greenish Warbler at Winterton North Dunes in Norfolk.

Rarities included a Caspian Tern in Norfolk, a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, a Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk, an Iberian Chiffchaff in North Yorkshire, an American Black Tern in Northumberland, a White-winged Scoter in Fife, and a Great Reed Warbler in Somerset.
-  Ben Clark, RBA