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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…
Birding the Algarve
During the autumn of 2023, I was invited to spend a few days at the Wyndham Grand Algarve in southern Portugal to explore the bird life in the area…
Quietening Skies
by Ruth Chambers
The demise of Starlings in Newcastle…
Western Reef Egret in Extremadura
I don’t really class myself as a twitcher – someone who races off to chase down a rare bird at the drop of a hat…
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…
The Benefits of Constructing Buildings with Spaces for Nature
It’s a sad fact that human urbanisation across the world has caused perhaps the most dramatic and irreversible transformations on our natural ecosystems. Many of the impacts are a real challenge for…
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…
Málaga in 100 birds. Part two
Our second day in Málaga started with a post dawn visit in the pouring rain to a local park in search of a reported Yellow-browed Warbler. This eastern sprite is a rare visitor to Spain and would…
Málaga in 100 birds. Part one
To the non-urban birder Málaga is simply an airport and gateway to the rest of the Costa del Sol. For me, and a growing army of birders, the city and its surrounds is a magnet for some really special birds…