Rarity finders: White-crowned Sparrow on Foula
Despite challenging weather conditions, Donna and Geoff Atherton's perseverance paid off with the discovery of an extreme rarity on their...
15/10/2017
All our rare bird stories from Britain and Ireland.
Despite challenging weather conditions, Donna and Geoff Atherton's perseverance paid off with the discovery of an extreme rarity on their...
15/10/2017
Tom Gale and Lewis Hooper were left flabbergasted when the mystery bird they rescued from a North Ronaldsay building transpired to be the...
11/10/2017
Jamie Partridge scored Scilly's first major 'Yank' of the autumn when he stumbled across a Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
11/10/2017
After dipping the only other Scilly record, Will Wagstaff was particularly pleased to find his own on St Agnes in early October.
11/10/2017
Tom Middleton’s quick dash around his local patch produced a county first at the very last moment.
04/10/2017
Andrew Gardener's decision to visit Bryher paid off with a putative Tennessee Warbler.
03/10/2017
Michael McNaghten and his friends lucked out on what is likely to prove one of the finds of the autumn.
26/09/2017
Rory Tallack fulfilled a lifetime ambition when he came across an American cuckoo on his old patch in west mainland Shetland.
25/09/2017
Brydon Thomason’s intuition that a small fall of Yellow-browed Warblers might have rarer company was confirmed when he stopped to explore...
22/09/2017
Séamus Feeney scored a mega-rare Nearctic shorebird along his favoured stretch of Sligo coast.
12/09/2017
Despite hobbling around Portland Bill on crutches, Duncan Walbridge still managed to find Britain's first mainland American Yellow Warbler.
29/08/2017
Paul Connaughton of Shearwater Wildlife Tours on the excitement of seabirding off Ireland's south-west frontier.
26/08/2017