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Fatbirder is the premier birders’ web resource about birds, birding and birdwatching. Whether you are looking for facts about hummingbirds, songbirds, shorebirds or raptors in your backyard or are planning a trip or birding tour anywhere in the world Fatbirder is the site for you.
There are tens of thousands of links on two thousand pages about birding everywhere; a page for every country & state & every bird family.
It’s all here from RSPB wildlife reserves or Audubon bird sanctuaries to the best bird watching binoculars and spotting scopes. There are page sections on books, guides, forums, reserves, accommodation, trip report, bird clubs and more as well as pages on topics such as ornithology, twitching, endangered species, conservation, equipment, pelagics, birding holidays and much more.
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Record summer for ‘hummingbirds’ in UK gardens
Data from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Garden BirdWatch survey, carried out by volunteers across the UK, showa fourfold increase in the number of gardens recording a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, making 2022 ...moreAugust 10th, 2022Fear, frustration and anger – A hot European summer
The latest heatwave hitting our continent has resulted in more fires than usual breaking out especially across the south-west of Europe and the Mediterranean The latest heatwave hitting our continent has resulted ...moreJuly 28th, 2022Find a feather – a seaside treasure hunt
Off to the seaside this summer? Scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) want people to help protect one of our most colourful ducks by looking out for their distinctive feathers ...moreJuly 28th, 2022Some Don't Like it Hot
New research from BTO implicates rising temperatures in the steep decline of the Willow Warbler, one of the UK’s most tuneful harbingers of spring. The study, published in the journal IBIS, shows ...moreJuly 11th, 2022
RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
| By Marianne Taylor & Stephen Message | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2022 | Paperback | eBook available 9781472994722 | 272 pages, 800 colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | ISBN: 9781472994721 | £7.99p ...moreJune 24th, 2022How Birds Live Together: Colonies and Communities in the Avian World
| Marianne Taylor | Princeton University Press | 2022 | Hardback | 224 Pages, colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps | ISBN: 9780691231907 | £25.00p | The Publisher’s View: Featuring dramatic and ...moreJune 24th, 2022The Corncrake – An ecology of an enigma
| By Frank Rennie | Whittles Publishing | 2020 | Paperback | 189 pages, 8 plates with colour photos; b/w illustrations, tables | ISBN: 9781849955027 | £18.99p | The Publisher’s View: Changes ...moreJune 24th, 2022Rhythms of Nature - Wildlife and Wild Places Between the Moors
| By Ian Carter | Pelagic Publishing | 2022 | Hardback | | 204 pages | ISBN: 99781784273569 | £14.99p | The Publisher’s View: Time outdoors is always well spent. It raises ...moreJune 25th, 2022Guide to the Birds of China
| By John MacKinnon(Author), Karen Phillipps Illustrator), Yang Xiao Nong (Illustrator), Liu Li Hua (Illustrator), Xiao Yao (Illustrator), Gao Zhi (Illustrator), Gao Chang (Illustrator), Lan Jian Jun (Illustrator), Annie MacKinnon (Illustrator), Lu ...moreJune 25th, 2022
The Latest Grumpy Old Birder Article No. 155 - Land Lovers
The latest Grumpy Old Birder Article is now on line as well as on page 19 of the May 2022 edition of Birdwatching Magazine (UK) Read it HEREDecember 3rd, 2021
Destinations
After much of 2020 has been in ‘lockdown’ and world travel for pleasure greatly reduced – most birders who would normally have travelled to see new birds around the world have been ...moreNovember 25th, 2020Birding Colombia
Eduardo Ormaeche, Birding Ecotours I recently received an email from my main office asking me to write an article about birding in the neotropics. My immediate question was ‘Any particular topic?’ to which ...moreJune 21st, 2021