Rare birds
Rarity finders: Hudsonian Godwit in Fife
Simon Pinder and Keith Simpson recount the story behind the identification and relocation of a second for Scotland.
15/11/2020
Britain & Ireland
All our rare bird stories from Britain and Ireland.
Rare birds
Rarity finders: East Siberian Wagtail in Shetland
Mark and Linda Sutton were left stunned when they came across a first for Britain while taking a sandwich stop on the last day of their...
05/11/2020
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Steppe Grey Shrike in Suffolk
A trip to see a Great Grey Shrike turned into something far more unusual for Andrew Moon.
29/10/2020
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Taiga Flycatcher in Co Durham
Harry Richardson took full advantage of promising weather conditions on the east coast to find a mega-rare Siberian vagrant at his local...
23/10/2020
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Masked Shrike in Cleveland
A sharp eye and the help of an old friend provided Stephen Addinall with a fourth for Britain at one of his local sites.
15/10/2020
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Common Nighthawk in West Sussex
Andy Wilkes was left stunned when a nightjar-like bird that flew in off the sea at his patch transpired to be a freshly arrived vagrant...
09/10/2020
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Two-barred Warbler in Northumberland
Perseverance with an elusive Phylloscopus warbler brought Ross Ahmed one of his best finds to date in a less well-watched area of his patch.
08/10/2020
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Sora on Lundy
Warden Dean Jones was stunned to find an exhausted American crake in scrub where he'd stopped to look for migrant passerines.
03/10/2020
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher on Tiree
John Bowler sums up the ecstasy of coming face to face with a new British and Western Palearctic species in his own garden.
25/09/2020
Britain & Ireland
Days to remember: 'Super Sunday' on Fair Isle
Ian Lycett shares his recollections of the most exhilarating day's birding he has experienced in Britain – 2 October 2016 on the famous...
20/09/2020
Rare birds
What next from the West?
American birds are among the most hotly anticipated vagrant species to turn up in Britain or Ireland, having battled their way across the...
11/09/2020
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Eleonora's Falcon in Norfolk
Mick Davis details a brief encounter with a perplexing falcon on his Norfolk patch, which later whipped up a Twitter storm as it transpired...
25/08/2020
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