Rarity finders: Short-toed Snake Eagle in Kent
A sudden fly-over from a mega raptor left Richard Bonser and Jamie Partridge speechless.
14/09/2022
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A sudden fly-over from a mega raptor left Richard Bonser and Jamie Partridge speechless.
14/09/2022
An African gull never seen before in Britain left finder Richard Patient in a daze as the biggest twitch of the year unfolded around him at...
31/08/2022
Hundreds of hours of patchbirding this spring finally paid off for Darrell Stile, when he came face to face with a Mediterranean mega.
10/07/2022
Prioritising scanning his local wader flock over making dinner had big consequences for Arlo Jacques, who found Ireland's first twitchable...
04/06/2022
A cracking find by John Higginson proved a landmark Scilly bird – for both the isles and the finder.
27/05/2022
Bob Dawson produced the first major find of spring when he came face to face with a fourth for Britain.
27/04/2022
A quick stop at an unsuspecting inland lake produced a stunning transatlantic mega for Robert Vaughan.
30/03/2022
New Caledonian Storm Petrel is thought likely to be very rare and possibly already Critically Endangered.
15/03/2022
Michael Clayton-Harding was in for a shock when his wife described an unusual bird that had visited their garden – fortunately it hung...
15/02/2022
The bird was photographed in Finnmark as long ago as August 2009, with its true identity only recently realised.
18/01/2022
A new paper examines the spread of records across the continent and assesses where birds might have come from.
15/01/2022
Wayne Glossop's detective work pinned down an elusive vagrant in Lancashire, which subsequently became the star of winter 2021-22.
06/01/2022