surfbirds.com - Features Index

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2011 review click here

• Shetland Wildlife Autumn 2011 by Brian Small click here

• Shetland - Autumn 2010 by David Fairhurst and Jon Dunn click here

• Review of Bird Journal by Steve Lister click here

• BirdGuides Photo of the Year 2010 click here

• The World's Rarest Birds Through The Lens click here

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2010 review click here

• Evolution of Feathers by Carl Zimmer, courtesy National Geographic click here

• One Man's Quest to Photograph every ABA bird click here

• Nikon's Best of Fall 2010 Photos click here

• Using Sonograms for Night Flight ID by Tom Stephenson click here

• Birding the Scottish Highlands in Winter click here

• Dominic Couzens, author of Atlas of Rare Birds talks exclusively to surfbirds click here

• Interview with Geoff Hill, author of National Geographic's Bird Coloration click here

• 2009 Year Listing Review click here

• BirdGuides Photo of the Year 2009 click here

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2009 review click here

• Interview with Jonathan Alderfer click here

• On-line Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland click here

• On-line Chart to the Damselflies and Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland click here

• Birding World contents listing click here

• Understanding Audio Sonograms by Tom Stephenson click here

• Digiscoping with Nikon EDG Fieldscopes click here

• New Leica 82mm APO Televid and 25-50 WW eyepiece review click here

• Saving the Madagascar Pochard, the rarest duck in the World by Dr Glyn Young click here

• New Swarovski ATM 80 HD review click here

• Your Guide to some of the best lodges in Africa click here

• Rare Birds Where and When - Russell Slack talks to surfbirds click here

• Nikon Best of the N. American Spring Photos 2009 click here

• World Birding Videos by Paul Hopkins click here

• 2008 Year Listing Review click here

• The Geek's Guide to Carrying your Gear while Saving your Shoulders click here

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2008 review click here

• Dominic Couzens author of Top 100 Birding Sites of the World online - click here

• WWT Nikon Photography Winners - 2008 click here

• Christmas Island, an ornithologist's dream click here

• ABA Area Big Day record broken by Ken Behrens click here

• Setting Targets - 700 species in the Western Palearctic click here

• Iberian Chiffchaff in the UK by Brian Small click here

• Deep Water Seabirding – the final frontier by Terry Hunefeld click here

• Spotting Malta's secretive shearwaters by Helen Raine click here

• How To Learn Bird Songs So Your Next Birding Trip Can Be a Lot More Fun by Tom Stephenson click here

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2007 review click here

• The Biggest Twitch with Ruth Miller and Alan Davies click here

• Malyasia's Mystery Plover by David Bakewell and Peter Kennerley click here

• UK 500: Birding in the Fast Lane - All at Sea by James Hanlon click here

• Corvo Azores, Oct 2007 by Peter Alfrey click here

• UK 500: Birding in the Fast Lane - The Siege by James Hanlon click here

• The new Kowa TSN 883 Fluorite telescope by Brian Small click here

• Review of Birds of Kazakhstan by Peter Kennerley click here

• Tools for Attracting The Unknown: Field Recorders And Shotgun Mics by Tom Stephenson click here

• UK 500: Birding in the Fast Lane - The Chase by James Hanlon click here

• Kingfishers - a Surfbirds photofile by Brian J Small click here

• Chasing the Wind Chaser - Yelkouan Shearwaters in Malta click here

• Machias Seal Island Migrant Fallout - A Photo Essay by Ralph Eldridge click here

• Bird migration in Western Mongolia by Axel Braunlich click here

• Jonathan Rossouw's big year - 2006 Year list review click here

• Review of Birds of South Asia by Peter Kennerley click here

• Biodiversity loss - what impact on the world's birdlife? click here

• African White-backed Vulture in Portugal. New for Europe? Brian J Small click here

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2006 review click here

• Global warming and it's impact on the world's birdlife by Paul Stancliffe click here

• Attu, Fall 2006 by Marshall Iliff and Barry Lyon click here

• Gambell, Fall 2006 by Paul Lehman click here

• Gambell and Shemya Photo Gallery Fall 2006 click here

• Pentax 10x43 Binocular review click here

• Sound Approach to Birding review by Brian J Small click here

• Darwin's Finches by Brian J Small click here

• Hummingbirds - a Surfbirds Photofile click here

• Harry finds his bird - migrant Wood Warbler tracked home click here

• 2005 World Year Listing Review click here

• Nokia N90 Camera Phone Review click here

• 3D birding with Abe Perlstein click here

• The Big Twitch a review of a new book by Australian lister Sean Dooley click here

• Test your skills in the birdPod quiz click here

• The shorebirds of Osaka, Japan by Nobuhiro Hashimoto click here

• Birding by bike - Simon Woolley's big year 2005 click here

• Optics Reviews: Leica 8x32 BR Binoculars | Leica APO Televid 62 Telescope | Zeiss 10x42 FL Binoculars

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2005 review click here

• Leica 10 x 25 BR Binoculars. Brian J Small takes them for a test drive click here

• Leica 8x42 BR Binoculars. Brian J Small takes them for a test drive click here

• The Gathering of Elephants by Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne click here

• Conversation with Tim Gallagher author of The Grail Bird click here

• Nokia 6630 Camera Phone Review click here

• Sony Ericsson S710 Camera Phone Review click here

• The birdwatchers' code click here

• 2004 Year Listers Review click here

• Virtual birding with Anquet maps click here

• Advanced web searching click here

• The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2004 review click here

• Hunting mega birds in Southern China by Mike Kilburn click here

• DVD Review of Watching Warblers and Chance to Win a DVD click here

• Nokia 7610 Camera Phone Review click here

• A Few Words On Phonescoping by Adam Scott Kennedy click here

• Scopac - Product Review click here

• Phonescoping - the next step in the Digital Birding Revolution? click here

• Back from Bulgaria by Chris Wormwell click here

• Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Report 2003 click here

• Which Software? Graham Etherington puts listing software through its paces click here

• Red-footed Falcon, Martha's Vineyard - Twitching a Mega by Julian Hough click here

• A Spoon-billed Sandpiper experience by Graham Gordon click here

• Chinese Crested Tern Twitch - July 2004 by Graham Talbot click here

• 'Baywatch' - Ballycotton - great days at Ireland's premier bay by Graham Gordon click here

• Finding the endemic Kagu by Kevin Vang click here

• Eco-bird Race 2004 - Brockholes Quarry, Lancashire by James Walsh click here

• Alexander Skutch Remembered click here

• Mother's Day Killers, Monterey Bay, May 2004 by Roger Wolfe click here

• Surfbirds makes Newsweek, May 2004 click here

• Quest for 1000 Bird Photos Nick Kontonicolas Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

• Book Review: Whose Bird and Dictionary of Birds of the United States click here

• Top Listers of 2003 - meet some of last year's top listers click here

• Cheshire and Wirral County Challenge - reflections from 1995 by James Walsh click here

• 300 species in a year by James Walsh click here

• Review: Birdwatchers' Guide to Morocco click here and Watching Sparrows DVD click here

• Quest for 1000 Bird Photos Nick Kontonicolas Chapter 1 click here

• The very best of British Birding: 2003 review click here

• Winged Migration an inverse review on DVD by Elise Faike click here

• Birding in Taiwan by Graham Etherington click here

• Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Report 2002 click here

• Jacques Perrin talks to Surfbirds about Winged Migration, the movie click here

• Moth trapping - Isles of Scilly, October 2003 by Tony Davison click here

• Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 - click here for review and here for a press release

• The owls of Finland, with Birdseekers click here

• Extreme Birding - Prince Edward Island and the Antarctic Pack Ice by Graeme Wallace click here

• "Camouflage, quiet and the "sweet" smell of dung" - The Midden by Nigel Blake click here

• "Fuzzy" raptor - the missing link discovered by Natural History Museum, UK click here

• Saemankeum, Korea - Internationally significant wetland to be reclaimed by Nial and Charlie Moores click here

• World Cup Birding - The Korean Birdwatcher's Year by Nial and Charlie Moores click here

• Bowerbirds and Platypus - Julatten, Queensland by James Walsh - click here

• Churchill's Finest Hour! - A photo special of Churchill, Canada's birds by Dave Hawkins. click here

• Seychelles, November 2001 Photo report by Peter and Natalie Nash click here

• Searching for Southern California's Seabird Specialties by Mitch Heindel click here

• One Birders Personal Account of coming face-face with a new species of Owl click here

• Attracting Birds to your Garden - brief extract from the Golden Guides click here

• Birding the Chobe, Botswana with Nigel Blake (Photo extravaganza!) click here

• Butterflies of Britain - Year Listing 2001 with Nick Sampford click here

• Seabirds at Sea - Sightings from Research Ships - Written and photo illustrated by Dr. Russell B. Wynn click here

• One Year Anniversary Special - Surf-ing Birds. A Photo Essay by Bill Baston et al click here

• Bluethroat Spring - Relive some of the brightest moments of spring through the lenses of Ian Barnard, Bill Baston, Nigel Blake, Paul Hackett, John Judge click here

• Israel - on migration with Mark Thomas and Jenny Atkins from the RSPB. A Photo Essay click here

• The Birds of Fuerteventura; the chat, the bustard, the courser and the sandgrouse (photo feature by Brian J Small click here

• Ecological restoration: the fight to save the Cahow Pterodroma cahow click here

• Cryptic Petrels - Madeiran/Band-rumped Storm-petrels by Alex Lees click here

• Birding Africa - an interview with the leaders of Birding Africa and the youngest people to see the landmark 800 species in southern Africa click here

• Spoon-billed Sandpiper; probable population crash by P.Tomkovich, C. Zockler et al click here

• Digital Birding. Which camera is best for "Digiscoping" by Trevor Codlin click here

• A Blue-winged Warbler Story ; a personal account An American living in Ireland gets caught up in the fever of an American bird blown 3000 miles off course to Ireland by Chuck Kruger click here

• Birding France and Corsica, May 2000 - beautifully illustrated article with some fine in-hand shots. click here

• ATTU 2000 - the last Attours trip to Attu this past fall turned up some astonishing birds including two potential N. American firsts. A personal account of Attu 2000 by Phil Davis click here

• Late Season Hummingbirds in Maryland. Late season hummingbirds are VERY likely to be a rare western species. Over the years Rufous has proven most common, but there are also eastern records of Black-chinned, Anna's, Allen's, Broad-tailed, Calliope, Blue-throated, and even Green Violet-Ear. By Marshall Iliff. click here

• Fair Isle 2000 This feature proved very popular and was a great example of the exciting prospects that the growth of the internet can bring to birding. This feature ran almost daily updates from one of Europe's Premier Bird Observatories with digital photos from the ringing room. Here is a summary of some of the highlights of October and one or two new photos. click here

• The Honey Buzzard Influx into the UK: During the second half of September an unprecedented influx of Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus) arrived along the East Coast of Britain. Numbers ran into many hundreds of birds with sightings coming, it seemed, from almost anywhere where a birder bothered to look up. By Martin Birch click here

• A Pelagic Warbler: Mary Scott from BirdingAmerica.com recounts a tale about a boat, some birders and a rather lost bird. click here

• David Sibley Online: David goes online at Surfbirds to talk about his art, his inspirations and his new book. click here

• A Point of View: For anyone who has seen Fea's Petrel off North Carolina and is dismayed about not being able to count it, take heart. By Mike Tove click here

• Birding the Canaries, Dec/Jan '99-'00 The Canary Islands are well-known amongst ornithologists for their handful of endemic landbirds that are more or less confined to this archipelago. By Henning Fedders and Frank Rheindt click here

• Barn Elms During the early 1900s, the scene at Barn Elms Reservoirs, London SW13, was described by C. J. Cornish "as sub-arctic and lacustrine as on any Finland pool, for the frost-fog hung over river and reservoirs"... click here

• Scillonian Pelagic, August 2000 Warren Wilkins reports on the August 20th annual pelagic off Cornwall in search of Wilson's Petrel. click here

• Birding the Commonwealth of Dominica. The Caribbean's Best Kept Secret. A photo account of birding Dominica. By Martin Birch click here

• Birding in Anguilla Julian Hughes was sent to identify potential Important Bird Areas (IBAs) as part of BirdLife International's Americas conservation programme and to produce the first country checklist for Anguilla. click here

• "Pterodroma Alley" by Mike Tove Birders on both sides of the "pond" are eagerly awaiting Michael's new book "Guide to the Offshore Wildlife of the Northern Atlantic" which is due out this November. In the run up to this exciting event, Mike kicks off a two part article. The first being "Pterodroma Alley" which is one of his favorite haunts on the pelagics he leads. This year they have already scored the Grand Slam of Pterodromas in one trip! click here

• "I came, I saw, I counted" extracts from Attu by Sandy Komito From Eye-browed Thrushes to Bluetails, one of North America's leading listers recounts a few of his favorite days spent on the island of Attu in the spring of 1998. Taken from his latest book, "I came, I saw, I counted" chronicling the story of his exhaustive quest to break the North American Big Year record in 1998. click here

• Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry Graham Ekins shares some important details about this ferry, which has rapidly become a premiere seabird and cetacean studying vessel. click here


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American Spring Photos 2009 click here • World Birding Videos by Paul Hopkins click here • 2008 Year Listing Review click here • The Geek's Guide to Carrying your Gear while Saving your Shoulders click here • The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2008 review click here • Dominic Couzens author of Top 100 Birding Sites of the World online - click here • WWT Nikon Photography Winners - 2008 click here • Christmas Island, an ornithologist's dream click here • ABA Area Big Day record broken by Ken Behrens click here • Setting Targets - 700 species in the Western Palearctic click here • Iberian Chiffchaff in the UK by Brian Small click here • Deep Water Seabirding – the final frontier by Terry Hunefeld click here • Spotting Malta's secretive shearwaters by Helen Raine click here • How To Learn Bird Songs So Your Next Birding Trip Can Be a Lot More Fun by Tom Stephenson click here • The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2007 review click here • The Biggest Twitch with Ruth Miller and Alan Davies click here • Malyasia's Mystery Plover by David Bakewell and Peter Kennerley click here • UK 500: Birding in the Fast Lane - All at Sea by James Hanlon click here • Corvo Azores, Oct 2007 by Peter Alfrey click here • UK 500: Birding in the Fast Lane - The Siege by James Hanlon click here • The new Kowa TSN 883 Fluorite telescope by Brian Small click here • Review of Birds of Kazakhstan by Peter Kennerley click here • Tools for Attracting The Unknown: Field Recorders And Shotgun Mics by Tom Stephenson click here • UK 500: Birding in the Fast Lane - The Chase by James Hanlon click here • Kingfishers - a Surfbirds photofile by Brian J Small click here • Chasing the Wind Chaser - Yelkouan Shearwaters in Malta click here • Machias Seal Island Migrant Fallout - A Photo Essay by Ralph Eldridge click here • Bird migration in Western Mongolia by Axel Braunlich click here • Jonathan Rossouw's big year - 2006 Year list review click here • Review of Birds of South Asia by Peter Kennerley click here • Biodiversity loss - what impact on the world's birdlife? click here • African White-backed Vulture in Portugal. New for Europe? Brian J Small click here • The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2006 review click here • Global warming and it's impact on the world's birdlife by Paul Stancliffe click here • Attu, Fall 2006 by Marshall Iliff and Barry Lyon click here • Gambell, Fall 2006 by Paul Lehman click here • Gambell and Shemya Photo Gallery Fall 2006 click here • Pentax 10x43 Binocular review click here • Sound Approach to Birding review by Brian J Small click here • Darwin's Finches by Brian J Small click here • Hummingbirds - a Surfbirds Photofile click here • Harry finds his bird - migrant Wood Warbler tracked home click here • 2005 World Year Listing Review click here • Nokia N90 Camera Phone Review click here • 3D birding with Abe Perlstein click here • The Big Twitch a review of a new book by Australian lister Sean Dooley click here • Test your skills in the birdPod quiz click here • The shorebirds of Osaka, Japan by Nobuhiro Hashimoto click here • Birding by bike - Simon Woolley's big year 2005 click here • Optics Reviews: Leica 8x32 BR Binoculars \| Leica APO Televid 62 Telescope \| Zeiss 10x42 FL Binoculars • The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2005 review click here • Leica 10 x 25 BR Binoculars. Brian J Small takes them for a test drive click here • Leica 8x42 BR Binoculars. Brian J Small takes them for a test drive click here • The Gathering of Elephants by Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne click here • Conversation with Tim Gallagher author of The Grail Bird click here • Nokia 6630 Camera Phone Review click here • Sony Ericsson S710 Camera Phone Review click here • The birdwatchers' code click here • 2004 Year Listers Review click here • Virtual birding with Anquet maps click here • Advanced web searching click here • The very best of British and Irish Birding - 2004 review click here • Hunting mega birds in Southern China by Mike Kilburn click here • DVD Review of Watching Warblers and Chance to Win a DVD click here • Nokia 7610 Camera Phone Review click here • A Few Words On Phonescoping by Adam Scott Kennedy click here • Scopac - Product Review click here • Phonescoping - the next step in the Digital Birding Revolution? click here • Back from Bulgaria by Chris Wormwell click here • Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Report 2003 click here • Which Software? Graham Etherington puts listing software through its paces click here • Red-footed Falcon, Martha's Vineyard - Twitching a Mega by Julian Hough click here • A Spoon-billed Sandpiper experience by Graham Gordon click here • Chinese Crested Tern Twitch - July 2004 by Graham Talbot click here • 'Baywatch' - Ballycotton - great days at Ireland's premier bay by Graham Gordon click here • Finding the endemic Kagu by Kevin Vang click here • Eco-bird Race 2004 - Brockholes Quarry, Lancashire by James Walsh click here • Alexander Skutch Remembered click here • Mother's Day Killers, Monterey Bay, May 2004 by Roger Wolfe click here • Surfbirds makes Newsweek, May 2004 click here • Quest for 1000 Bird Photos Nick Kontonicolas Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 • Book Review: Whose Bird and Dictionary of Birds of the United States click here • Top Listers of 2003 - meet some of last year's top listers click here • Cheshire and Wirral County Challenge - reflections from 1995 by James Walsh click here • 300 species in a year by James Walsh click here • Review: Birdwatchers' Guide to Morocco click here and Watching Sparrows DVD click here • Quest for 1000 Bird Photos Nick Kontonicolas Chapter 1 click here • The very best of British Birding: 2003 review click here • Winged Migration an inverse review on DVD by Elise Faike click here • Birding in Taiwan by Graham Etherington click here • Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Report 2002 click here • Jacques Perrin talks to Surfbirds about Winged Migration, the movie click here • Moth trapping - Isles of Scilly, October 2003 by Tony Davison click here • Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 - click here for review and here for a press release • The owls of Finland, with Birdseekers click here • Leica Duovid high performance binoculars review click here • Lower Rio Grande Valley Photo Essay by Peter Weber click here • Cuban endemics, with Birdseekers click here • Menorca in Spring - creative writing piece by Dylan Wrathall click here • Who were the top year listers of 2002? click here • New Zealand Storm-petrel - Does it still exist? click here • Extreme Birding - Prince Edward Island and the Antarctic Pack Ice by Graeme Wallace click here • An Antarctic Diary by James Walsh click here • "Camouflage, quiet and the "sweet" smell of dung" - The Midden by Nigel Blake click here • "Fuzzy" raptor - the missing link discovered by Natural History Museum, UK click here • Saemankeum, Korea - Internationally significant wetland to be reclaimed by Nial and Charlie Moores click here • World Cup Birding - The Korean Birdwatcher's Year by Nial and Charlie Moores click here • Review of The Birds of Korea on Video by Brian Small click here • Review of i-catcher wildlife software by Julie Kinnaird click here • Backyard Birding - top yards in UK and USA click here • European Birding Hotspot: Strait of Messina by A. Corso click here • China and Cranes by Steve Bale click here • Morocco Birding by Nigel Blake click here • Tropical North Queensland, by James Walsh click here • On A Mission? by James Walsh click here • Bowerbirds and Platypus - Julatten, Queensland by James Walsh - click here • Trumpeter Swans in the UK - East Coast reintroductions - click here • 2001 Review Of The Year Listers click here • Roger's Birding Notes - December 2001 by Roger Higson click here • Churchill's Finest Hour! - A photo special of Churchill, Canada's birds by Dave Hawkins. click here • All You Ever Needed to Know About Digiscoping click here • Seychelles, November 2001 Photo report by Peter and Natalie Nash click here • Roger's Birding Notes -November 2001 by Roger Higson click here • Photographing Birds in Flight by Nigel Blake click here • Scilly Birders' 2001 Photo Gallery click here • Seabirding in New Zealand by Duncan Poyser click here • World Wader/Shorebird Gallery - Autumn 2001 click here • October 2001 Isles of Scilly Bird Board click here • Searching for Southern California's Seabird Specialties by Mitch Heindel click here • Bruijn's Brush-turkey re-discovered - first ever photo click here • One Birders Personal Account of coming face-face with a new species of Owl click here • Wilson's triangle Reveals its Soft Spot by Steve Rogers click here • Attracting Birds to your Garden - brief extract from the Golden Guides click here • Birding the Chobe, Botswana with Nigel Blake (Photo extravaganza!) click here • Machias Seal Island with Mary Scott of Birding America click here • Butterflies of Britain - Year Listing 2001 with Nick Sampford click here • Seabirds at Sea - Sightings from Research Ships - Written and photo illustrated by Dr. Russell B. Wynn click here • One Year Anniversary Special - Surf-ing Birds. A Photo Essay by Bill Baston et al click here • Western Alaska, Spring 2001 - A photo Essay by Phil Davis click here • May 2001 Beidaihe, China - Photo essay by Brian J Small click here • Bluethroat Spring - Relive some of the brightest moments of spring through the lenses of Ian Barnard, Bill Baston, Nigel Blake, Paul Hackett, John Judge click here • Noisy Neighbours by Steve Mundy click here • Israel - on migration with Mark Thomas and Jenny Atkins from the RSPB. A Photo Essay click here • The Art of Digital Birding by Nigel Blake click here • Let's Go Chile. A photo essay by Don DesJardin click here • Bohemian Waxwing Slide Show by Bill Baston and Iain Leach click here • The Birds of Fuerteventura; the chat, the bustard, the courser and the sandgrouse (photo feature by Brian J Small click here • Owls and Night Birding by Nigel Blake click here • Remains of the Moa by Oxford University click here • Ecological restoration: the fight to save the Cahow Pterodroma cahow click here • Selenium Poisoning in Birds by Alex Lees click here • Cryptic Petrels - Madeiran/Band-rumped Storm-petrels by Alex Lees click here • Birding Africa - an interview with the leaders of Birding Africa and the youngest people to see the landmark 800 species in southern Africa click here • First N. American Gull Conference, Nov' 2000 by Phil Davis click here • Millenium Birding in Los Angeles by Martin Byhower click here • Spoon-billed Sandpiper; probable population crash by P.Tomkovich, C. Zockler et al click here • Digital Birding. Which camera is best for "Digiscoping" by Trevor Codlin click here • A Blue-winged Warbler Story ; a personal account An American living in Ireland gets caught up in the fever of an American bird blown 3000 miles off course to Ireland by Chuck Kruger click here • Birding France and Corsica, May 2000 - beautifully illustrated article with some fine in-hand shots. click here • ATTU 2000 - the last Attours trip to Attu this past fall turned up some astonishing birds including two potential N. American firsts. A personal account of Attu 2000 by Phil Davis click here • Late Season Hummingbirds in Maryland. Late season hummingbirds are VERY likely to be a rare western species. Over the years Rufous has proven most common, but there are also eastern records of Black-chinned, Anna's, Allen's, Broad-tailed, Calliope, Blue-throated, and even Green Violet-Ear. By Marshall Iliff. click here • Fair Isle 2000 This feature proved very popular and was a great example of the exciting prospects that the growth of the internet can bring to birding. This feature ran almost daily updates from one of Europe's Premier Bird Observatories with digital photos from the ringing room. Here is a summary of some of the highlights of October and one or two new photos. click here • The Honey Buzzard Influx into the UK: During the second half of September an unprecedented influx of Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus) arrived along the East Coast of Britain. Numbers ran into many hundreds of birds with sightings coming, it seemed, from almost anywhere where a birder bothered to look up. By Martin Birch click here • A Pelagic Warbler: Mary Scott from BirdingAmerica.com recounts a tale about a boat, some birders and a rather lost bird. click here • David Sibley Online: David goes online at Surfbirds to talk about his art, his inspirations and his new book. click here • Product Review: The new Leica zoom eyepiece B 20-60X click here • A Point of View: For anyone who has seen Fea's Petrel off North Carolina and is dismayed about not being able to count it, take heart. By Mike Tove click here • Birding the Canaries, Dec/Jan '99-'00 The Canary Islands are well-known amongst ornithologists for their handful of endemic landbirds that are more or less confined to this archipelago. By Henning Fedders and Frank Rheindt click here • Autumn 2000 Isles of Scilly Bird Board click here • Barn Elms During the early 1900s, the scene at Barn Elms Reservoirs, London SW13, was described by C. J. Cornish "as sub-arctic and lacustrine as on any Finland pool, for the frost-fog hung over river and reservoirs"... click here • Scillonian Pelagic, August 2000 Warren Wilkins reports on the August 20th annual pelagic off Cornwall in search of Wilson's Petrel. click here • Birding the Commonwealth of Dominica. The Caribbean's Best Kept Secret. A photo account of birding Dominica. By Martin Birch click here • Birding in Anguilla Julian Hughes was sent to identify potential Important Bird Areas (IBAs) as part of BirdLife International's Americas conservation programme and to produce the first country checklist for Anguilla. click here • "Pterodroma Alley" by Mike Tove Birders on both sides of the "pond" are eagerly awaiting Michael's new book "Guide to the Offshore Wildlife of the Northern Atlantic" which is due out this November. In the run up to this exciting event, Mike kicks off a two part article. The first being "Pterodroma Alley" which is one of his favorite haunts on the pelagics he leads. This year they have already scored the Grand Slam of Pterodromas in one trip! click here • "I came, I saw, I counted" extracts from Attu by Sandy Komito From Eye-browed Thrushes to Bluetails, one of North America's leading listers recounts a few of his favorite days spent on the island of Attu in the spring of 1998. Taken from his latest book, "I came, I saw, I counted" chronicling the story of his exhaustive quest to break the North American Big Year record in 1998. click here • Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry Graham Ekins shares some important details about this ferry, which has rapidly become a premiere seabird and cetacean studying vessel. click here
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