For some years now, BirdGuides has been publishing online articles for birdwatchers which could be regarded as the equivalent of an online magazine. Some of the articles are available free of charge to all visitors to our website, but many can only be accessed if you subscribe to Bird News Extra.
Hence, a significant benefit of subscribing to Bird News Extra is to have access to the hundreds of articles we've already published, as well as the on-going topical articles we add every month.
The following list is just a sample but it will give you an idea of the breadth of articles already in our archive. To get access to all of them, you just have to become a Bird News Extra subscriber.
Bird identification – these articles are usually copiously illustrated using examples from the thousands of photos in our photo gallery and include ground-breaking ideas from well-known birder Martin Garner on how to identify 'impossible' species
- Black Scoter in all plumages
- 'Eared' Owls
- Yelkouan Shearwater
- Black-necked and Slavonian grebes
- Races of Canada Geese
- Mediterranean Gull
- Caspian Gull
- Pacific Golden Plover
Where to look for
Bird conservation
- Cirl Buntings in Britain
- Black Grouse in the Peak District
- Barn Owls in the lower Derwent Valley
- Ospreys breeding in Wales
- Golden Eagles in Co. Donegal
- Yorkshire seabird counts
Birding abroad
- Where to find Atlas Flycatcher, Egyptian Nightjar and Dupont's Lark in Morocco
- Dalmatian Pelicans in Greece and Bulgaria
- Cape May
- Beidaihe
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper
- Bharatpur
- Gurney's Pitta
Birdwatching sites
- Foula
- Christchurch Harbour
- Galley Head
- Bardsey
- Keyhaven and Pennington
- Deeping Lakes
- Anglesey
- Portland Bill
Analysis of influxes/invasions
- Hawfinch – autumn 2005
- Temminck's Stint – spring 2004
- Red-rumped swallow – spring 2003
- Waxwing –winter 2002-03
- Common Crane – spring 2002
- Leach's Petrel – 2002
Birders' tales and finds
- Seawatching in Ireland
- Amur Falcon
- Belted Kingfisher
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Long-toed Stint
- Common Nighthawk
Photo-spot
Miscellaneous
Weekly reviews
These summarise all the sightings reported during the previous week and are illustrated by up to 50 photos from our photo gallery. They are a fantastic way to be kept informed on what's being seen around the country and which birds are giving the best views. And if you want to know how many of certain species were being seen at this time in previous years, you can find out just by looking up the appropriate weekly reports in the archive.
For a full list of articles in the archive, see www.birdguides.com/articles
To subscribe to Bird News Extra, go to www.birdguides.com/subscribe
