Bird of the Week: Siberian Accentor, Easington
This blockbuster rarity drew huge crowds to the East Yorkshire coast during its protracted stay.
19/10/2016
All our rare bird stories from Britain and Ireland.
This blockbuster rarity drew huge crowds to the East Yorkshire coast during its protracted stay.
19/10/2016
Sussex birder Clive Saunders regularly visits remote Barra to search for rarities, but this time his perseverance truly paid off with a...
03/10/2016
Tor Olsen scored heavily on the Norwegian island of Kvitsøy when he came across the country's first Empidonax flycatcher.
30/09/2016
Our Bird of the Week is this confiding beauty on the East Sussex coast.
28/09/2016
Séamus Feeney's search for rare American waders paid off with something even more special, and Davey Farrar was in the right place at the...
27/08/2016
A trip to Suffolk to see Honey Buzzard really paid off for Frank Clark when he discovered a potential first for Britain.
08/08/2016
A short morning visit to his local patch rewarded Killian Mullarney with a long-awaited national first.
27/07/2016
Paul Kelly discovered Ireland's fifth Western Sandpiper as part of an astonishing run of quality shorebirds at Co Wexford's birding...
26/07/2016
Martin Elliott had the foresight to snap a few record shots of a 'scoter' that flew past the Scillonian III – with no idea of the mega...
13/06/2016
Richard Levett on the unprecedented late-spring discovery of an obliging Nearctic cuckoo.
31/05/2016
Mike Pennington recounts the discovery and identification of Britain's second Green Warbler on the most northerly island in Shetland.
21/05/2016
Calf of Man Ornithological Warden Richard Cope gives the details of the island's first Eastern Bonelli's Warbler.
17/05/2016