Birdwatch - February 2023
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- Issue Number:
- 218
- On Sale:
- 26/01/2023
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- £5.99
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Issue Summary
The Birders’ Choice Awards winners are announced in the February issue of Birdwatch, which also features a review of 2022, competitive year-listing in Ireland, winter diver ID and birding in Azerbaijan.
On Sale: 26/01/2023
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What's in this Issue?
2022: a year in review With national firsts aplenty and some extreme rarities unblocked, 2022 was a brilliant time to be twitching across Britain and Ireland, as Sam Viles reports
Birders’ Choice Awards All the votes in the eighth annual Birders’ Choice Awards have been counted up and the results are in.
#LocalBigYear: the results Our local birding challenge was hugely popular in 2022. We look back some of the highs and announce the winners of each category.
Field ID notes: winter divers Andy Stoddart explains how to distinguish the non-breeding plumages of three commoner visitors, plus how to clinch the identification of two rare vagrants.
An Irish big year After a bumper start to 2022, Brian McCloskey tried to break the Irish year-list record. Twelve months of exhilarating highs and frustrating lows followed.
On the edge An autumn trip to the eastern periphery of the Western Palearctic featured plenty of great birds for Ed Stubbs.
