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RBA NewsMap comes to Birdwatch

In a new collaboration between Rare Bird Alert and Birdwatch, visitors to the Birdwatch website can see RBA’s excellent NewsMap showing the locations of all scarce and rare birds reported each day in Britain and Ireland.

NewsMap Lite is a fantastic tool for birders, making it possible to see all of the day’s records of rarities and scarce migrants, clearly marked on a Google map of the Britain and Ireland. Where available photos are displayed alongside information for each record.

Access it here and from the link at the top of the page.

 

 
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Our favourite features from the new Birdwatch online article database'

identification
 
Yellow-browed and Pallas's Warblers and Firecrest
yellowbrowed.jpg Brush up on the field marks of these three ‘sprites’, especially now Yellow-browed and Pallas’s Warblers and commoner and over-wintering.
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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.
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books
 
Birds of the Atlantic Islands
birdsoftheatlanticislands.jpgThis 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.
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optics
 
Sigma 300 mm f2.8 lens
sigma300.jpgA 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.
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