Identification
Autumn flycatchers photo ID guide
Andy Stoddart explains how to tell the regular Spotted, Pied and Red-breasted Flycatchers from their rarer counterparts.
15/09/2018
Identification
Is that a female American Wigeon or a hybrid? American Golden Plover or the rarer Pacific? Some of birding's best-known ID experts provide the answers to these and many more identification conundrums.
Identification
Great and Cory's Shearwater photo ID guide
Andy Stoddart explains how to separate two of the scarcer and more desirable shearwaters to visit our waters.
20/08/2018
Travel
A Caspian Gull photo-fest in Romania
Jamie Partridge visited Romania's Black Sea coast to get his fill of young Caspian Gulls, but was also thrilled by how generally 'birdy'...
06/08/2018
Identification
Golden plover photo ID guide
Andy Stoddart details the differences between the familiar European Golden Plover and its rarer counterparts, American and Pacific Golden...
14/07/2018
Identification
Marsh tern photo ID guide
Andy Stoddart explains how to tell the difference between Black, White-winged and Whiskered Terns in all plumages.
15/06/2018
Identification
Black Grouse, Capercaillie, Red Grouse and Ptarmigan Photo ID Guide
Andy Stoddart leads you through the differences between our four native grouse species, with particular attention to the tricky females.
14/05/2018
Identification
Common and Iberian Chiffchaffs and Willow Warbler photo ID guide
Andy Stoddart helps you differentiate between all three of these tricky Phylloscopus warblers with confidence.
27/03/2018
Identification
Brent Geese photo ID guide
Andy Stoddart highlights ID tips to separate Dark-bellied and Pale-bellied Brents, Black Brant and 'Grey-bellied' Brant.
14/02/2018
Identification
Focus on: summer Caspian Gulls
July and August offer the only opportunity to encounter juvenile Caspian Gulls in Britain. Josh Jones explains how to identify them and...
25/07/2015
Identification
Velvet, White-winged and Stejneger's Scoters ID photo guide
There was a time when any scoter with a white wing-bar was simply a ‘Velvet’. Not any more, as what was once regarded as a single Holarctic...
27/01/2015
Identification
Identification: Little Shearwater
From the archive: Anthony McGeehan looks at one of seawatching's biggest identification challenges, the diminutive Little Shearwater....
16/12/2014
Identification
October ID tips: British and Continental Coal Tits
In autumn, the British subspecies of Coal Tit can be joined by numbers of the nominate subspecies from the Continent. See if you can...
01/10/2014
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