Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Pacific Diver in Shetland
Brydon Thomason was leading a tour group when he stumbled across a vagrant in a rarely seen plumage.
01/06/2023
Britain & Ireland
All our rare bird stories from Britain and Ireland.
Britain & Ireland
Shetland in spring
Renowned for its autumn birding, which attracts hundreds of visitors in September and October, Shetland is far less visited in spring. With...
25/05/2023
Rare birds
Yellow-billed Kite: wild or escape?
Sam Viles debates whether the recent British Yellow-billed Kite has any chance of being of wild origin and looks at previous European...
24/05/2023
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Elegant Tern in Dorset
Geoff Barlow was stunned when he came across an orange-billed tern on his regular circuit of RSPB Lodmoor.
27/04/2023
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Forster's Tern in Somerset
It was the stuff of inland patchbirding dreams for Peter Akers, who found a national mega at his local reservoir.
19/04/2023
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Lesser Kestrel in the Isles of Scilly
The archipelago's spring erupted into life when Bob Flood found a mega falcon on St Mary's.
29/03/2023
Britain & Ireland
Britain's next breeding bird
Josh Jones looks to the future to predict which birds might soon be nesting on these shores.
16/03/2023
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: White-winged Scoter in Co Mayo
Hot on the heels of Britain's first Stejneger's Scoter, the first White-winged Scoter for Ireland was expertly found by Pat Lonergan on...
15/02/2023
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Stejneger's Scoter in Lothian
A day birding on the Lothian coast turned into the discovery of a lifetime for Keith Gillon, who unearthed a first for Britain.
05/02/2023
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Yellow-browed Bunting in Kent
Ringers at Sandwich Bay were in for a shock in October when they plucked a sixth for Britain out of the nets, write Ian Hunter and Steffan...
28/12/2022
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Myrtle Warbler on Scilly
Samaya and Scott Reid tell the story of the discovery of an ultra-confiding North American mega on St Mary's.
22/12/2022
Britain & Ireland
Rarity finders: Blue Rock Thrush in Norfolk
Endless hard graft on his local patch paid off in style for Sean Offord with a mega county first.
30/11/2022
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