Welcome to the online home of Birdwatch magazine
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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.
We'll be doing some last-minute tweaks and updates in the coming weeks, so remember to keep popping by to see what changes we've made. And feel free to leave any comments - if we're getting it right, we'd love to know, and if we're getting it wrong, we need to know so that we can fix it.
In the meantime, take a look around, read the Birdwatch Blog or see what we've been up to in the team gallery.
Happy birding 
Dominic Mitchell, Managing Editor
Features
Every month Birdwatch magazine features a range of articles covering British and overseas destinations, rarities sightings, species spotlights and top tips and advice. Get a feel for the magazine by reading a selection of these articles online.
Baird's Sandpiper
Keith Vinicombe unravels the ID intricacies of separating Baird's Sandpiper from potential confusion species, White-rumped and Semipalmated Sandpipers and Little Stint.
Serendibity: the birds of Sri Lanka
Ceylon, Serendib or Sri Lanka - whatever you call it this enchanting and endemic-rich island in the Indian Ocean is an amazing birding destination, as Marianne Taylor discovered.
Wipe out
About 130 bird species have become extinct in the past five centuries, and 180 are on the critical list. Simon Papps looks at some of those on the brink.
Forum
Welcome to the new Birdwatch website!
We hope you'll enjoy the new site and its new interactive, community sections. Please let us know what you think ....
Photos & Videos
Show off your latest sightings in the Birdwatch.co.uk 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.
Taken on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, in June 2009. This is breeding season for the…
Posted by Birdwatch on 10 Mar 2010
Another Farne Islands photo, this time of some of the many breeding Puffins there. Photo…
Posted by Birdwatch on 10 Mar 2010
More from the Farne Islands - there is a breeding colony of Kittiwake there; this bird…
Posted by Birdwatch on 10 Mar 2010Latest News
Climate change and US birds
Posted: 13 Mar 2010Read more…
England’s wildlife losses
Posted: 11 Mar 2010Read more…
Peat intiative inadequate
Posted: 10 Mar 2010Read more…
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.
Birdwatch 2010 calendar
Closing Date: 31 Mar 2010Win a 2010 Birdwatch calendar!
Rare Bird Alert News Map
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.