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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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Sunday 12th July 2026  
  New rarities today consisted of a Caspian Tern at Exminster Marshes RSPB in Devon, and a Pacific Golden Plover at Ring Marsh in County Wexford.

Rarities included a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, a White-winged Scoter in Lothian, a Semipalmated Sandpiper in Orkney, a Lesser Scaup in Fife, a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, a King Eider in Shetland, and a Western Subalpine Warbler in Shetland.
-  Ben Clark, RBA