'Major seabird hot-spot' identified in North Atlantic
Satellite tracking has helped to discover an area used by up to 5 million birds from more than 50 different colonies.
04/08/2021
Articles
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Review of the Week
Review of the Week: 26 July-1 August 2021
A new Western Sandpiper highlighted in Ireland and the Elegant Tern relocated to Lancashire, while seabird action really picked up in the...
02/08/2021
Photo of the Week
Photo of the Week: 26 July-1 August 2021
Delightful light conditions make for an effective capture of a firm favourite, winning Chris Hawes this Monday's award.
02/08/2021
Conservation
Unfair game: the birds that can still be shot in the UK
Julian Thomas investigated the status of hunters' quarry birds and was shocked to find how little protection is offered to Red- and...
01/08/2021
Britain & Ireland
American Black Tern summers in Northumberland
Sam Viles looks at circumstances surrounding Britain's first breeding-plumaged adult of this Nearctic subspecies.
29/07/2021
Comment
Dominic Mitchell: to tick a mockingbird
It's been the bird of the year for many who saw it, but as a species, Northern Mockingbird has a chequered history in Britain. Dominic...
28/07/2021
Review of the Week
Review of the Week: 19-25 July 2021
Summer 2021 continues to produce extreme rarities, with a Western Sandpiper in Norfolk the latest arrival to draw a crowd. Sam Viles and...
26/07/2021
Photo of the Week
Photo of the Week: 19-25 July 2021
A comical shot of arguably Hampshire's bird of the year wins this week's award for Ian Wells.
26/07/2021
Invertebrates
Moth and butterfly news: May-June 2021
After a slow start to May, Britain's Lepidoptera species took full advantage of the blistering June heat. Will Langdon rounds up the action.
25/07/2021
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Short-billed Dowitcher in Co Cork
Christopher O'Sullivan had dipped the last Irish record of this mega-rare shorebird, so was ecstatic to find one on his local patch.
23/07/2021
Western Palearctic
Kamchatka Leaf Warbler in Finland – a new Western Palearctic species
A chance find while out grocery shopping led Petteri Lehikoinen and his colleagues to the discovery of a regional first.
22/07/2021
Rare birds
Britain's first Soft-plumaged Petrel
Alan Tilmouth discusses the find and subsequent identification of this Southern Atlantic Pterodroma.
21/07/2021
Review of the Week
Review of the Week: 12-18 July 2021
A steady midsummer week was still able to boast some quality lingering rarities, while an eye-opening Western Palearctic first was found in...
19/07/2021
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