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We birders are a most fortunate bunch. Not only are we spoilt for choice when it comes to high-quality optics, birding holidays to suit every budget and every level of interest, birding blogs (like this one!) and websites serving us with all kinds of information and avian adventure, we’re also being offered books of astonishing [...]

North America’s archetypal “little brown job” the almost omnipresent Song Sparrow occupies much the same birding-niche in the Nearctic as the Dunnock does in the UK: if you’re birding here in the UK and a bird is seen only briefly or poorly as it disappears into vegetation and it ‘just has to be a rarity‘, [...]

Non-adult Ring-billed Gulls Larus delawarensis
North America, various dates
 
THE gull most likely to be seen in urban settings across North America, the Ring-billed Gull is a widespread species that many people will be very familiar with. Increasingly identified in the UK (where it was first identified at Blackpill, Swansea Bay, in 1973) it is thought that [...]

Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanica
Point Pelee and Rondeau, Ontario May 2005
 
The Chestnut-sided Warbler breeds from central Canada east to the Maritime Provinces, south through New England and the Great Lakes and through the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. It nests in early to middle successional habitats where it prefers deciduous, brushy areas, and winters in [...]