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Welcome to Birdwatch's relaunched website. You'll still find all latest news, reviews, articles and site guides that you've come to expect from Birdwatch.co.uk, but there are also many other features on this new site. You can start a blog, upload photos and videos to your own galleries or join the conversation in the forum.

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Dominic Mitchell, Managing Editor



Stodmarsh is a good site for watching Hobby in summer. Photo: Chris Harbard

Stodmarsh

One of the best wetlands in southern England, with a good range of species that includes reedbed specialities, wildfowl and waders, as well as double-figure counts of Hobby in late May and early June.

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Frensham Common is a good site for European Nightjars in summer. Photo: Chris Harbard

Frensham Common

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a Special Protection Area (SPA), the common contains dry and wet heath, scrub and woodland with many special birds associated with these habitats.

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Magellanic Penguin. Steve Young.

Picking up penguins

Windswept and remote, the Falkland Islands are a haven for seabirds, holding two-thirds of the world population of Black-browed Albatross and millions of penguins. Steve Young was lucky enough to visit this bird-rich archipelago.

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Forum

Migration

Hi I'm new this is my first post, but ... where I live down on the south coast hants/dorset border, the swallows had been on a feeding frenzy for a couple of days swooping down the cliffs for the

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SWAROVSKI 10X32

FOR SALE! Swarvoski 10x32 EL WB Binoculars. Perfect condition with travel case. RRP 1299.00. Will sell for £770.00. Used three times in the past year. Top optic's for birding. E mail

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Show off your latest sightings in the Birdwatch.co.uk photo gallery, simply register for a free account and you can start uploading your photos straight away. Here are a few of the latest gallery additions.

THE MARSHES .. SNETTISHAM .. NORFOLK

Posted by KENNETH on 05 Sep 2010

EARLY DAWN .. SNETTISHAM MARSHES .. NORFOLK

Posted by KENNETH on 05 Sep 2010

LITTLE EGRET .. SNETTISHAM MARSHES .. NORFOLK

Posted by KENNETH on 05 Sep 2010

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African drought affects migrants

Posted: 07 Sep 2010
Lack of rain is affecting the survival of many British summer visiting birds when they are in their winter quarters in Africa, according to latest research findings.

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Cambodian vultures on the up

Posted: 06 Sep 2010
Asian vultures, whose populations have been dramatically declining almost everywhere due to the effects of feeding on cattle containing veterinary drugs, are increasing in Cambodia.

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Power lines kill blind fliers

Posted: 05 Sep 2010
Recent research has revealed that the reason that power lines kill certain types of birds may be due to the fact that they literally fly blind, having very restricted visual fields.

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Competition

With Birdwatch.co.uk you can easily enter competitions featured in Birdwatch magazine. Just click here to check out the latest prizes and enter online.

Barr & Stroud scopeClosing Date: 30 Sep 2010

Win a scope and tripod set, courtersy of Optical Distribution Services, worth £330!


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Rare Bird Alert News Map

NewsMap Lite

In a collaboration between Rare Bird Alert and Birdwatch, visitors to Birdwatch.co.uk 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 Britain and Ireland. Where available, photos are displayed alongside information for each record.

You can access this information by clicking here on the map above.