Photo of the Week: 30 December 2020-5 January 2021
A close encounter with a 'great white' wins Chris Griffin our first award of 2021.
06/01/2021
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A close encounter with a 'great white' wins Chris Griffin our first award of 2021.
06/01/2021
Secretive, cryptic and yet widespread in winter, Woodcock is often stumbled across by mistake rather than discovered deliberately. Rob...
03/01/2021
A new film follows two wardens who spend the summer alone on a tiny lighthouse island to protect one of Europe's rarest seabirds. Writer...
01/01/2021
A Jack, beautifully photographed by another Jack, is the final winner of 2020.
30/12/2020
A loud rattle alerted Patrick Lyne to the presence of a stunning American vagrant in a secluded West Cork bay.
29/12/2020
Having recently moved to live in western Ireland, US birder Mike Sylvia soon scored his first major find – in the form of a familiar...
27/12/2020
Andy Stoddart provides expert tips on how to separate the two subspecies of Greater White-fronted Goose that occur on our shores each...
25/12/2020
Co Cork's third Bufflehead was the star find, but a number of major rarities remained on show and plenty of grey geese were still around,...
23/12/2020
Clive Daelman's close encounter with a spectacular Great Bustard in Oxfordshire wins him our latest award.
23/12/2020
Seamus Enright's homework on an extremely rare North American visitor paid off spectacularly during a work trip to Ballylongford.
21/12/2020
A study has shown that a higher diversity of birds encountered daily equates to people being more joyful.
20/12/2020
Some bird species lost half of their natural habitat during the 2019-20 blazes – and the outlook is bleak for Australian birdlife, reports...
20/12/2020