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Our favourite features from the new Birdwatch online article database'
identification
Yellow-browed and Pallas's Warblers and Firecrest
Brush up on the field marks of these three ‘sprites’, especially now Yellow-browed and Pallas’s Warblers and commoner and over-wintering. Read more ...
where to watch
Cliffe Pools, Kent
Cliffe
Pools is an excellent North Kent RSPB reserve, within one
hour’s travel of London. The reserve has year round bird interest, with a
superb late summer wader passage.
Read more ...
books
Birds of the Atlantic Islands
This field guide covers what is collectively known as Macaronesia - the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands. Home to a wide range of endemics they also attract a growing number of vagrants. Read more ...
optics
Sigma 300 mm f2.8 lens
A telephoto lens with a fast maximum aperture is ideal for bird
photography, especially in dull weather. Steve Young put Sigma’s new lens to the test. Read more ...
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Waterbirds in the UK 2006/2007 names 12 sites in the South East as hosting internationally important numbers of waterbird species during winter or migration.
Waterbirds in the UK 2006/2007 names 12 sites in the South East as hosting internationally important numbers of waterbird species during winter or migration.
A project to boost the population of the endangered Thick-billed Parrot in Mexico by creating protected reserves to conserve habitat and providing nest boxes to increase reproduction may make it possible for the species to be once again found in the U.S.
ABC's Colombian partner, Fundacion ProAves, is expanding its successful pilot program, Women in Conservation, to help protect six of its bird reserves.
In 2004, the USFWS determined that a number of communications towers in Hawaii would likely cause harm to imperiled birds and recommended formal consultation under the ESA for tower projects.