Rarity finders: White-crowned Sparrow on Islay
When her bird-loving husband left for work, the last thing Bonnie Wood expected was to discover an extremely rare American vagrant in her...
08/09/2019
All our rare bird stories from Britain and Ireland.
When her bird-loving husband left for work, the last thing Bonnie Wood expected was to discover an extremely rare American vagrant in her...
08/09/2019
After dipping the St Ives bird, David Collins couldn't believe his luck when he stumbled across a Brown Booby of his own at one of his...
07/09/2019
Phil Snaith and Kester Wilson independently had tantalising views of a mystery Sulid off St Ives on 26 August, which Kester suspected to be...
06/09/2019
Sam Langlois and Ella Benninghaus cashed in when they found a first for Scotland while on a camping holiday.
03/09/2019
Josh Jones takes a look at the increasing occurrence of the African subspecies of Kelp Gull in the Western Palearctic and suggests that...
30/08/2019
A potential British first passing along the North Kent coast left three fortunate observers stunned. Geoff Burton tells the tale.
28/08/2019
Paul Connaughton describes a brief encounter with a potential mega Pterodroma, which would be an Irish first.
21/08/2019
A year on from a Sooty Tern lingering in Aberdeenshire, Will Scott discovered one heading north past Bempton Cliffs. Could it have been the...
18/08/2019
Tom Whiley was the only birder to see a radiant tropical wanderer pass right under the noses of assembled seawatchers – luckily he had his...
18/08/2019
Dave Cooper, Brydon Thomason & Rob Fray summarise 2019's unprecedented arrival of Two-barred Crossbills to the archipelago, assessing the...
12/08/2019
Warden David Parnaby recounts another remarkable day on the famous island, involving two major rarities and a fascinating identification...
11/07/2019
A European Roller was seen and photographed in the Bristol Channel off the north Devon coastline on Sunday 30 June.
05/07/2019