Western Palearctic
Autumn 2018 on Corvo
Peter Alfrey reports back on another phenomenal autumn for Nearctic and Palearctic vagrants on the magical Azorean island.
22/12/2018
Rare birds
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Rare birds
Rarity finders: American Royal Tern on Anglesey
December may not be considered prime time to find rarities, but Tony White's trip to the Anglesey coast nonetheless produced a major...
20/12/2018
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Dusky Thrush on Whalsay
Shetland has the ability to produce extreme rarities at any time of year, as Brian Marshall demonstrated when he came cross an ultra-rare...
18/12/2018
Travel
Seram: a gruelling hike for one of the world's most elusive birds
Seram Thrush is one of the hardest birds to see in the world, having been observed just a few times since its discovery in 1921. Ashley...
30/11/2018
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Little Swift in Cleveland
Sam Viles was seeking Pallid Swifts when he visited Hartlepool Headland on 11 November but, thanks to his girlfriend's superior optics, he...
21/11/2018
Rare birds
Pied Wheatear at Meols – a first for Cheshire
Allan Conlin summarises the recent occurrence of a well-twitched Pied Wheatear on his North Wirral patch, which represented a new species...
13/11/2018
Ornithology
'Triple hybrid' warbler in Pennsylvania is new to science
Scientists have shown that a warbler found in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid mother and a father from an entirely different...
08/11/2018
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Baltimore Oriole on Barra
Stuart Rivers had always hoped to find a North American oriole on his beloved island of Barra and, after almost three weeks of hard graft...
30/10/2018
Rare birds
Rarity finders: White-rumped Swift in East Yorkshire
When Lesley Catherine Ball found an unusual swift at Hornsea Mere, it kicked off a chain of events that culminated in a cohesive team of...
19/10/2018
Migration
The lure of Shetland in late autumn
Stephen Dunstan has been visiting Shetland for over a decade and finds the late October period hard to beat – if the wind is in the east.
13/10/2018
Rare birds
Rarity finders: Green Warbler on Lundy
When Tim Davis and Tim Jones glimpsed a bright Phylloscopus, they were delighted to have found what they thought was a Greenish Warbler....
12/10/2018
Rare birds
Rarity finders: White-crowned Sparrow on Foula, September 2018
After a spell of westerly gales, Chris Turner, Michael McKee and Pete Forrest scored heavily with Foula's second White-crowned Sparrow in...
08/10/2018
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