Rarity finders: Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Shetland
An incredibly brief encounter left Foula residents Donna and Geoff Atherton thrilled.
27/07/2023
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An incredibly brief encounter left Foula residents Donna and Geoff Atherton thrilled.
27/07/2023
A new paper has concluded that the introduced species be downgraded to Category C6.
19/07/2023
Brothers Simon and Tim Jump scored a major prize when they went birding at Alkborough Flats last week.
05/07/2023
Brydon Thomason was leading a tour group when he stumbled across a vagrant in a rarely seen plumage.
01/06/2023
Martyn Owen became part of a very special group when he found Britain's first Black-winged Kite – and in one of the most unlikely parts of...
26/05/2023
Renowned for its autumn birding, which attracts hundreds of visitors in September and October, Shetland is far less visited in spring. With...
25/05/2023
Sam Viles debates whether the recent British Yellow-billed Kite has any chance of being of wild origin and looks at previous European...
24/05/2023
Geoff Barlow was stunned when he came across an orange-billed tern on his regular circuit of RSPB Lodmoor.
27/04/2023
It was the stuff of inland patchbirding dreams for Peter Akers, who found a national mega at his local reservoir.
19/04/2023
The archipelago's spring erupted into life when Bob Flood found a mega falcon on St Mary's.
29/03/2023
Josh Jones looks to the future to predict which birds might soon be nesting on these shores.
16/03/2023
Hot on the heels of Britain's first Stejneger's Scoter, the first White-winged Scoter for Ireland was expertly found by Pat Lonergan on...
15/02/2023