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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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Saturday 26th September 2026  
  New rarities today were an American Pipit on South Uist in the Western Isles, a Red-eyed Vireo on Lundy in Devon, a Hume's Warbler at Helvick Head in County Waterford, a Greenish Warbler at Galley Head in County Cork, two Lesser Yellowlegs on South Uist in the Western Isles, and Baird's Sandpipers in Conwy, Orkney and Northumberland. Rarities included a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, a Swainson's Thrush in County Galway, an Upland Sandpiper in Scilly, a White-winged Scoter in Angus, an American Pipit in Shetland, a Subalpine Warbler in Scilly, Semipalmated Sandpipers in Hampshire and County Kerry, further Baird's Sandpipers in County Cork, Glamorgan and Cheshire, a Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall, a King Eider in Shetland, Ferruginous Ducks in Essex, a Citrine Wagtail in Shetland, and further Lesser Yellowlegs in Fife, Leicestershire and Somerset.
-  Ben Clark, RBA