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Friday, 3 April 2026

Dog welfare charity will be at Global Birdfair 2026 - but BTO again expected to snub Rutland event

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A DOG welfare charity is this year set to take stand space at this year's Global Birdfair, the foremost social event in the UK birding c...
Thursday, 2 April 2026

Ongoing Middle East conflict certain to take its toll on nature - including birds of many species

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                                                 Birdlife in jeopardy - the zone of conflict (image: Wikimedia Commons ) THE spring conflict...

Likely to be lively interest when Whitaker's "sumptuous" two-volume The Birds of Tunisia goes under the hammer

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                                                  Black-eared Wheatear - an illustration from one of the volumes ONLY 250 copies of J.L.S. W...
Wednesday, 1 April 2026

Running out of puff! Is much-loved seabird doomed to breeding extinction on mainland Britain's south coast?

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                                                 Puffins - once 'thick as grass' on Dorset coast but now in rapid decline DOUBTS are...

Bird tours company "not too heavily impacted" by ongoing conflict in Middle East

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                                              T hey like to get out and about - one of the company's brochures from a previous year AS t...
Tuesday, 31 March 2026

Panel of wise birders deems that 'ship-assisted' corvid should not be added to the 636-strong British List

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                                                      Taking flight - but not landing a place on the British List THE records committee of t...

It has long been extinct, but it is certain that this remarkable marine bird will never be forgotten

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Just like that! Prof Tim Birkhead produces the egg IF his career had taken a different path, perhaps  renowned birder, author and Sheffield ...
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