Bird watching and birding for the mildly interested
I am not a hardcore, or even medium core, birder. I like big obvious birds, colourful birds, impressive birds and birds in huge numbers, occasionally. LBJs don’t do it for me. We will keep you up to date with news, and let you know good places to go and see (big, obvious, numerous) birds, but if you want a dedicated, specialist birding site, then I suggest you look elsewhere.
Where to watch birds and wildlife in the UK
See the guide to wildlife watching in the UK.
Recent Birds news
- Conservation charities buy slice of Peruvian rainforest
- Slavonian grebe numbers dwindling in Scotland
- Ospreys are a Borders success story
- America bans bird-killing insecticide
- Catastrophic forest fire delivers huge blow to Europe’s rarest seabird
- Rare nocturnal nightjar has been found in a Derbyshire wood
- Polar bears and glaucous gulls most at risk from pollution
- Galapagos off danger list but still at risk
- Biofuel threat to Kenyan birdlife
- New bird reserve will protect Colombia’s rare parrots
- Red kite joins Scottish ‘staycation’ trend
- Garden birds under threat as deadly parasite disease jumps species barrier
- Leucistic Blue jay from Oklahoma City
- Hungry polar bears a threat to conservation success story
More Birds news
- Scotland’s white-tailed sea eagles spread their wings
- Red-billed oxpeckers to make Mountain Zebra park their home
- Sand martins’ ingenious concrete ‘burrow’
- 2.5 years in jail for smuggling peregrine eggs
- Record highs and lows for UK waterbirds
- Strange orange-headed birds seen in Ireland
- Don’t cut off birds’ food supply with the garden shears, warns RSPB
- Norway’s sea eagle chicks ready for release in Ireland
- Mass die-offs set to be a gruesome feature of global warming
- WWT Slimbridge waves goodbye to cranes destined for wild
- Global goodbyes for ‘Lady’ – the UK’s most famed osprey
- World Heritage Site shame for UK territories
- Call for total ban on lead hunting ammo in US
- Leucistic starling in East End of London
We are bivouacked on the cold, wet sands of Tubbataha North Islet, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Asia's great seabird enclaves.
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Click Collins Bird Guide to read more
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New Forest Robin bird species discovered in Gabon
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Government may lift bird import banExtinct seabird rediscovered off Papua New Guinea.
Unique wader threatened with extinction
'Extinct' Madagascar Pochard re-discovered
The world's least known bird, the Large-billed Reed-warbler, rediscovered.
Stunning new hummingbird species discovered in Colombia
Dwarf woodpecker and legless lizard among 14 new species discovered in Cerrado region of BrazilApril 2008. An expedition to a remote region of Brazil has lead to the discovery of a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil.
New Bird Species Recognised in Colombia, May Already be ExtinctAn analysis of 124 of Europe’s common birds has revealed that over a 26-year period 56 species (45 percent) have declined across 20 European countries.
Black Grouse turn the corner in England as numbers climb above 1000.Although times have been hard for the Black grouse, conservationists hope that the species may have turned the corner after years of decline thanks to more sensitive land management.
Very rare 'Leucistic' moorhens seen in the UK.We have now been sent 4 photos of different leucistic moorhens in the UK. Leucism is very rare and to have four birds in the country simultaneously is highly unusual.
Reward offered for Golden eagle killers.
Grey-headed albatrosses on the brink in Australia
Great Bustards in the UK
Great Bustards nest again in UK after 175 years waitIberiaNature.com (nothing to do with Wildlife Extra, but very good) has a very good guide to the wildlife of Spain.
The latest update on the status of Ireland's Golden eagle population.
Details.
Avian Reintroduction Biology: current issues for science and management - symposium | |
8 - 9 May 2008. click here. | |
Click here to read the review or to buy.
Read about the nature of England, and see a guide to nature reserves in England.
Click here to see more about English Nature
