The Online Guide to Rarer British Birds

Answer all of your rarity questions instantly!

The Online Guide to Rarer British Birds enables you to look up ALL historical records of British and Irish rarities accepted up to the end of 2005 – from a database of over 25,000 records. (The 2005 Irish records will be added when the information is available.)

At the click of your mouse you can find out the status of over 250 rare species (and forms) in Britain and Ireland. No more rummaging through old reports, no more cross-referencing from different sources, ALL the information is now on this online database as part of our Bird News Extra service.

Find out where all of the 273 Baird's Sandpipers have been. Just how many Isabelline Shrikes have there been, and where? How many Lanceolated Warblers have there been on Fair Isle? When was the Varied Thrush in Cornwall? How many different species of rarity have there been in the West Midlands? What rarities have occurred this week in past years? What rarities have been at Cley over the years?

BirdGuides director, Dave Gosney, explains 'We've already published a database covering the 240 rarest species in our CD-ROM Guide to Rarer British Birds, with videos of many of the actual rarities mentioned, but now we've extended that to cover all the species considered by the Rarities Committee and we've put it on the Internet so it can be continually updated. We've also added a search facility that enables users to look up all the past rarity records in any locality or on any date.'

Access to this area is available to Bird News Extra subscribers for as long as their subscription lasts.

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Bird News Extra (includes free access to the Online Guide)

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The CD-ROM Guide to Rarer British Birds

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Click here for further details of what it contains (including over 330 video clips of rarities).