Autumn leaf warbler photo ID guide
Andy Stoddart gives expert advice on how to separate Yellow-browed, Hume's Leaf, Pallas's, Eastern Crowned and Pale-legged Leaf Warblers.
05/10/2018
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.
Andy Stoddart gives expert advice on how to separate Yellow-browed, Hume's Leaf, Pallas's, Eastern Crowned and Pale-legged Leaf Warblers.
05/10/2018
Andy Stoddart explains how to tell the regular Spotted, Pied and Red-breasted Flycatchers from their rarer counterparts.
15/09/2018
Andy Stoddart explains how to separate two of the scarcer and more desirable shearwaters to visit our waters.
20/08/2018
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
Andy Stoddart details the differences between the familiar European Golden Plover and its rarer counterparts, American and Pacific Golden...
14/07/2018
Andy Stoddart explains how to tell the difference between Black, White-winged and Whiskered Terns in all plumages.
15/06/2018
Andy Stoddart leads you through the differences between our four native grouse species, with particular attention to the tricky females.
14/05/2018
Andy Stoddart helps you differentiate between all three of these tricky Phylloscopus warblers with confidence.
27/03/2018
Andy Stoddart highlights ID tips to separate Dark-bellied and Pale-bellied Brents, Black Brant and 'Grey-bellied' Brant.
14/02/2018
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
There was a time when any scoter with a white wing-bar was simply a 'Velvet'. Not any more! Read Martin Garner's guide to separating the...
27/01/2015
From the archive: Anthony McGeehan looks at one of seawatching's biggest identification challenges, the diminutive Little Shearwater....
16/12/2014