Links to other birding sites

This is, of course, not an exhaustive list! If you know of, or maybe have, a site that you think would be a good addition here, then please email the details to Gareth Watkins. Please email too if any of these links are dead. Thank you!

RSPB Sites

Official RSPB Site

Central London Members' Group Chester Members' Group
Cleveland Members' Group East Yorkshire Members' Group
Edinburgh Members' Group Oxford Members' Group
Nottinghamshire Members' Group Reading Members' Group
St Albans Members' Group South Wiltshire Members' Group
Southend Members' Group Winchester Members' Group
Watford Members' Group West Glamorgan Members' Group
York Members' Group

Herts related

Birdline South East

Friends of Tring Reservoirs - Homepage for one of Hertfordshire's premier birding sites

Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Hertfordshire Dragonfly Group

Recent sightings in and around the Lea Valley and North London - site run by Andrew Middleton also includes sightings from Herts

Rye Meads Ringing Group

Stockers Lake - Derek Hale's site includes a site guide, sightings and photos from Stockers Lake (including 1999's Wryneck)

Wilstone Reservoir - Recent sighting and photos from Wilstone Reservoir, Tring

Other UK Bird Sites

Birdguides - recently revamped. Rarity news via subscription but worth it to get news of "lesser" birds too. Searchable archive by site or species.

Eurobirdnet/UK Birdnet - go here to subscribe to the UK Birdnet email discussion group

Birdline North West

Birdnet - Home of Birdnet, the information service and optics retailer. Also includes UK rarity photo gallery.

Birds in a Cheshire Garden - Excellent site entirely based around observations from one garden. I highly recommend you take a look!

Birdtours.co.uk - Archive of trip reports from around the world

Birdwatch - Birdwatch magazine's web site

Blows Downs Nature Reserve

British Birds - the journal's own website

British Bird Rarities Committee website - includes recent rarity decisions and committee press releases

British Ornithologists' Union

The Buckinghamshire Bird Club

Colwick Country Park homepages

The Fat Birder - a new site chock-full of UK-oriented birding links, with a lot of worldwide sites too

Filey Brigg Ornithological Group

Gull Identification - a very useful site if you're planning on finding a Caspian Gull in the Hilfield roost this weekend! Has lots of ID information on a wide variety of gull species.

Interbirdnet - On-line birding magazine

BirdsIreland.com - with Irish bird news and trip guides

Irish Birdwatching Page - links to lots of sites with Irish birding information

Kent Ornithological Society

Lee Evans' UK 400 Club - now a subscription site

Natural History Book Service

Norfolk Bird Club

North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory

Portland Bill Bird Observatory

The Raptor Conservation Website - Promoting the conservation of British raptors

SK58 Birders - New site from the birders of tetrad SK58 (it's quite near Sheffield!)

World links

African Bird Club

Association of European Rarities Committees

Bird Studies Canada - Home of ornithological research in Canada and the homepages of Long Point Bird Observatory

Birding Canada - includes a good selection of Canadian and World birding links

Birding Israel - a new site by Israeli birder Arnon Tsairi. Will become a very useful site with up to date information about birds and birding sites. Also features photos and checklist.

Birding the Americas - Trip Report and Planning Repository. Good collection of trip reports for the Americas, useful if planning a trip.

Birding Egypt - Full on information on birding sites, birds, travel tips and lots of other relevant info

Dutch Birding Website

International Birding & Research Centre, Eilat - the official site of the IBRC in Eilat, Israel

Kibbutz Lotan Centre for Birdwatching - includes recent sightings and booking information for the Israeli hotspot

Ontario Birding Homepages - an excellent site for bird and site information in Ontario, Canada - a favourite birding haunt of mine *grin*

Ornithological Society of the Middle East

The Ornithology Website - American-based site with lots of photos, bird-related articles, avian research projects and lots more! [Some of my photos are here! - GW]

Surfbirds - a British/USA collaboration featuring the best birding articles from both sides of the Atlantic, including rarity news, predictions, mystery photos...great site.

Virtual Birder - A fantastic site with virtual bird walks around N American sites. At the moment it includes a trip round Cape May. You can take the virtual tour and identify the birds that you see as you go round, accumulating points and attempting to beat the high scores. There is also a lot of information about birding in N America.

Where do you want to go birding today? - a very useful site full of links for a gamut of world birding sites (including Gareth's Israel pages!)

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