Moi, a budding birder? A birding odyssey in France
by Gayle Smith Padgett
Throughout 2019 we crisscrossed France from the Mediterranean to the English Channel, the Pyrenees to the Alps. Bird highlights were the Eurasian Eagle Owl in the Alpilles, Guillemot...
© Ruth ChambersQuietening Skies
by Ruth Chambers
The demise of Starlings in Newcastle...
The Desert Osprey of Qatar
by Adam Cairns
An osprey sighting is always memorable. Those fierce yellow eyes and pale plumage make it a highly distinctive bird and that’s before you find one fishing...
Birding My Urban Nature Reserve
by Domen Stanič
ŠKOCJANSKI ZATOK (South West SLOVENIA). My name is Domen and I work as a conservation ornithologist at the Slovenian BirdLife partner DOPPS...
Urban Birding in London
by Kabir Kaul (aged 13)
London. A city you wouldn’t associate with bird migration, wetlands, woodlands and general greenery. Well, guess what! All this exists within a capital that has...
Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve, near Milton Keynes, England
by Ashley Beolens
A spring of Eurasian Teal leaps into the air. The soft piping sound of their alarmed calls filling the air where it accompanies the excite...
Introducing Lodge Lake
by Ashley Beolens
As a town dweller my local patches are usually urban in their setting. Lodge Lake in Great Holm, a small balancing lake in the heart of Milton Keynes,...
Malmö – an urban birding hotspot
by Erik Hirschfeld
Malmö, just opposite Copenhagen is a fantastic place for urban birding. There are many reasons for this. As it is situated so far south in Sweden...
Winter Birding in Beijing, China
with Terry Townshend
However, for birders, it’s worth putting on the thermal underwear and braving those icy temperatures, winter can be a brilliant times.
Counting vultures around abattoirs in Kampala, Uganda
by Charlotte Beauvoisin
Counting vultures in and around Kampala’s abattoirs is one of Nature Uganda’s more unusual member activities...