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 16th July 2026  
  New rarities today consisted of a Caspian Tern at Nosterfield Quarry in North Yorkshire, and late news of a Semipalmated Sandpiper at Snettisham RSPB in Norfolk, as well as a reported Marmora's Warbler at Heddons Mouth in Devon.

Rarities included a Hudsonian Godwit at Cattawade on the Suffolk/Essex border, a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, a King Eider in Shetland, White-winged Scoters in Lothian, an American Black Tern in Northumberland, and a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk.
-  Ben Clark, RBA