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Adrian
Kettle's homepage
Selling rarity photos by Mike McDonnell.
AJM Wildlife Art
The website of Andy Mackay, one of the illustrators of Concise Birds of the
Western Palearctic, amongst other things.
Bill Aspin's Birdling Blog
Images of birds and other wildlife from Bill's travels outside East
Lancashire.
BillOddie.net
The
unofficial home of the great birding one. Your source for Bill Oddie News,
Tour Dates, Sightings, Interviews, Episode Guides, comprehensive lists of all
of his Books, Memorabilia, Music, Videos and TV and Radio work, as well as a
Biography and Photo Gallery.
Bird Forums
UK based discussion forums on all things birding.
Bird On
Including a monthly round up of UK wild bird news by journalist David
Tomlinson, paintings and photographs by leading wildlife artists,
birdwatcher's dictionary, a section on bird care and much more.
Birder's World magazine
Online
The website of the US magazine, with excellent resource of links to back up
the articles appearing in print.
Birdguides
With sighting and rarity updates, downloadable video and much else.
Birding World
Europe's premier monthly bird magazine.
BirdingPix
Wildlife images to view or buy. Mainly birds and including many of the latest
rarities to hit our shores - excellent!
Birds in the Net
The new global website for bird ringing and banding with bird ringing and
banding links and search engine.
Birds of Britain
Monthly web magazine for birdwatchers, with over 170 pages including changing
monthly features and a permanent guide to Britain's bird reserves and clubs.
Also an illustrated guide to over 100 bird species, with articles written by
Michael Seago and others, that first appeared in the Eastern Daily Press and
illustrations by Dave Nurney.
Birds of Holland 
Superb photographs by Rein Hofman of a large selection of European birds.
BirdSource - Birding with a
purpose
An
interactive website where the enthusiasm of birders is combined with state of
the art technology to promote conservation and environmental learning in a
revolutionary partnership between citizens and scientists. Designed and
managed by the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Laboratory of
Ornithology .
birds-pix
Birds and pictures discussion group, including digiscoping. This forum is
dedicated to birders who also want to share the pictures of birds that they
take. It is another interesting medium for bird identification.
Birdtours.co.uk
John Girdley's site provides birdwatching trip reports from six continents
and over seventy countries. More added every week.
BirdTrack
The online bird recording scheme to increase the personal, local and national
value of your sightings. BirdTrack is an online bird recording scheme
developed through an exciting partnership between BTO, RSPB and BirdWatch
Ireland. It is a year–round recording scheme that will use data from
birdwatchers records to support species and site conservation at local,
national and international scales. Results produced by BirdTrack will include
mapping the migration and movements of birds and monitoring of scarce birds
in Britain and Ireland. BirdTrack follows on from the successful Migration
Watch project that looked at spring migration in 2002-2004.
Birdwatch Online
From Birdwatch magazine, and including some articles and a rarity report.
British Birds
British Birds is a monthly ornithological journal read by all serious
birdwatchers around the World.
British Isles Birding
The story of his 2004 year list of 337 and memorable birding days.
British
Library National Sound Archive
The wildlife section of the National Sound Archive was established in 1969
and holds one of the largest collections of wildlife sounds in the world.
Also produces its own CDs, including 'British Bird Sounds on CD'.
The British List (from the BOU)
Full listing of all categories of the official British bird list.
Class Aves
Andrew McCafferty's updated site includes photos,
songs and calls, logs and a site guide for Lancaster.
Cliff
Buckton's Birding Page
Overseas
trip reports and photographs from Buckinghamshire based Cliff.
Dean Birders
This
project was the result of two keen birdwatchers getting together and wanting
to share their hobby with those that have difficulty getting out and about.
We want to set up feeder stations and nesting boxes in the gardens of those
people that are either elderly or have a disability and are limited to the
house.
Digiscoped
UK Birds
Digiscoped
Images of U.K. Birds, including Digiscoping information and related equipment
reviews.
Digiscoping
and Digital Birding
Maintained by Stephan Meniotte.
Digital
Birds
The website of Steve and Andy Tomlinson, who have been digiscoping since May
2003. They live in Liverpool and most of the photos are of birds in the north
west of England. Some excellent photos!
Disabled Birders Assocation
The DBA is an international movement to promote access to reserves and other
birding places and to a range of services so that people with different needs
can follow the birding obsession as freely as able-bodied people.
Edward
Grey Institute of Field Ornithology
Part of the Zoology department at Oxford University, studying bird population
dynamics, amongst other things.
Environment Agency
The birds section of the Environment Agency website.
European colour-ring Birding
The European colour-ring Birding© site is created and maintained by Dirk
Raes. As a service to the ringing centres and colourring-bird researchers,
this web-site gathers information about the schemes.
The Fat Birder
Aiming to link up as many birding enthusiasts world-wide as it can.
The Game
Conservancy Trust
A registered charity which seeks to promote the conservation of game in the
British countryside. Over 50 scientists are engaged in detailed research of
game ecology and farmland wildlife. Using their results, Game Conservancy Ltd
advises landowners, farmers and other conservationists on practical
management techniques which will benefit game and wildlife.
Gay Birders Club
For gay and lesbian birders.
Harlequin
Pictures
Wildlife images by Robin Chittenden for sale.
Huddleston & Jackson Bird
Ringing (Banding) Partnership
Created to pass on information from the Huddleston & Jackson Bird Ringing
(Banding) Partnership that operates in the York area of the UK.
InterBirdNet Magazine
Internet magazine for birdwatchers - now restyled again.
Jim
Fowler's Homepage
Subtitled "The Passions and Pursuits of a
Biologist", these pages don't appear to have been updated lately, but
include some ornithological reaearch undertaken by Dr. Jim Fowler of De
Montfort University on Yell, Shetland.
John
and Christine's Birdpage
Links to various aspects of Birds and Birdwatching that have interested John
and Christine Firth over the years.
John
Malloy
Lots of image galleries of mainly rarer birds.
Major Wildlife Photography
The website
of wildlife photographer Major Gilbert. The
website tells you about his work, the
subjects and equipment used and tries to keep you updated
with latest shoots via the diary page. The gallery shows
a small selection of the many images that can be purchased either for
publication, or as high-quality prints.
Peter Jones’ Wildlife
Photographs
Some good photographs (mainly birds) plus trip reports.
Keith's
Home Page
Keith Regan's site with trip reports, Northumberland rarity photos, etc.
The Life of Birds
The PBS website supporting the broadcast of Sir David Attenborough's series
in the U.S.
David Lingard's
Home Page
Links to some of David's excellent photographs and LIPU-UK.
The Linnean Society of
London
"The
cultivation of the Science of Natural History in all its branches" is
the aim of this Society, which draws its membership from professionals and
amateurs working in fields as diverse as professional biology, genetics and
taxonomy, to the history and philosophy of science. It has collections and a
library dating from 1483.
LIPO UK
Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) – UK branch.
LIPU UK
Lega
Italiana Protezione Uccelli or Italian League for Bird Protection - UK. LIPU
UK was founded in 1989 and since then has been successful in supporting LIPU
the Italian League for Bird Protection, the BirdLife Partner in Italy, in
many ways. LIPU-UK members have been to Italy to help on the ground with
various projects and members and friends have together raised money totalling
over £300,000 which has been spent on direct conservation work in support of
the birds in Italy.
Lost Falcon Center
The Lost falcon Center a quick response team for when falconers birds of prey
go missing. The search team is run by volunteers, all of the searchers are volunteers,
whose aim is to actively search with the falconer, in some cases within an
hour where possible, we are in desperate need of sponsorship and volunteers.
Migration
Watch
The
new Migration Watch project is up and running and you can watch migration as
it happens. It's organised by BTO and BirdWatch Ireland and is
fascinating!
Mike Atkinson Bird Photography
Collection
of images covering both common and scarce British birds.
Many images are displayed full-screen.
Multilingual
North European Bird Dictionary
Bird
names in 25 languages!
Nature Photography by
Andy Harmer
A selection of photos of birds, dragonflies, etc.
Nature Portfolio
Image Library
Animals, birds, plants and landscapes - images priced by size.
Nigel Blake
A collection of photographs by Nigel Blake from Europe and
Africa, including mammals, insects and flowers as well as birds.
On Silent Wings
Bird photography by Peter S. Weber.
Ornithology at The Natural History Museum
The
Bird Group, in the Department
of Zoology of The Natural
History Museum, is located at Tring, Hertfordshire, on the site of The Walter Rothschild
Zoological Museum. This website gives information about the bird
collections which have about 1,000,000 bird skins representing well over 95%
of known species, amongst many other things.
Peter Jones'
Wildlife Photographs
Photographs of wildlife in Britain and Europe.
Richard Fray's Photo Website
Digiscoped bird and wildlife photos from Shetland and the Scillies, and
further afield.
RSPB image library
Thousands of high quality photographs.
Royal Air Force
Ornithological Society
Founded in 1965 for members of the Service interested in ornithology, RAFOS
currently has approximately 220 members who are past and present members of
the Armed Forces, MOD civilians/contract staff and their families.
Sibley/Monroe
World List of Bird Names
A version of the now well-known, and much discussed world list of bird names
by the late Charles G. Sibley and the late Burt L. Monroe, Jr.
Steven Round Bird Photography
I wanted to produce a web site that would include as many species as I could
photograph, not just my very best material, but as the site develops over
time the poorer images will hopefully be replaced. In a reasonably short
period of time I have been able to put together a considerable number of bird
images that I would like to share with anyone who cares to visit my website.
Sue's Bird Photography
Sue Tranter's photos - rarities and residents, prize winners and published
photos for sale.
Surfbirds
This website is a collaboration between a group of British and American
birders to bring together the best birding articles from both sides of the
Atlantic. With features on identification, trip reports, rarity reports,
quizzes, etc.
Tom
Tams Bird Photography
Excellent photographs of both British birds and moths, plus some trip
reports.
uk.rec.birdwatching
Newsgroup for UK birders.
UK400 Club
The
UK400 Club caters for the rarity orientated British birdwatcher.
Established for many years the UK400 Club aim to provide a service highlighting
the occurrence of rare scarce and unusual birds in Britain and our opinions
on their origins, identification etc.
Western
Palearctic Birdsounds
Frans van der Veen's website with sounds in RealAudio format.
Wild About Britain or British
Birds at Wild About Britain
Information on British birds, wildlife, nature and the environment with
forums, news, photography, events calendars, interactive maps, product
reviews and a wildlife directory. Covering everything from British insects,
wildflowers, fungi and trees, to astronomy, geology, marine life and the
weather.
Wild Images
A Collection of Wildlife, Landscape and Fine Art Images.
Wildlife and Countryside Link
Wildlife and Countryside Link brings together
environmental voluntary organisations in the UK united by their common
interest in the conservation and enjoyment of the natural and historic
environment.
Our aim is to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of the voluntary
sector through collaboration. We currently have 36 members who collectively
employ 9600 full-time staff, have the help of 113,000 volunteers and the
support of approximately 8.4 million people in the UK.
Wildsong
Featuring the work of British recordist and sound artist Geoff Sample.
The Welland Bank Wanderer
Will Bowell's wanderings...
World
Wide Bird Sites
Featuring site guides for Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Norfolk and Shropshire,
plus overseas.
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