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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Friday 13th November 2026  
  New rarities today consisted of a Boneparte's Gull near Kilshannig in County Kerry, an Olive-backed Pipit at Holland Haven County Park in Essex and another Dusky Warbler at Porth Hellick on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly.

Continuing rarities today consisted of Red-breasted Goose in Ayrshire (2), Richardson's Cackling Goose in Dumfries and Galloway, Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Wexford, Spotted Sandpiper in West Yorkshire, Franklin's Gull in Hampshire, Crag Martin in Angus, Isabelline Shrike sp in Suffolk, Isabelline Wheatear in Kent and County Waterford, Desert Wheatear in Norfolk, Eastern Black Redstart in Lincolnshire, Hume's Warbler in Northumberland (2), Norfolk (2), Lincolnshire (2), County Durham and North Yorkshire, Dusky Warbler on Scilly, Northern Harrier in County Donegal and Pallid Harrier in Lancashire, Glamorgan and County Clare.

Other news came today came of a Desert Wheatear at Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex on the 6th or 7th of October.
-  Luke Stoppard, RBA