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Birdwatch Magazine

12 issues per year View Reviews   |   Write Review From £4.00 per issue "Birdwatch is the UK’s leading monthly magazine for keen birders. It covers a huge range of wildlife topics, from species spotlights and illegal bird killing to conservation and the environment, as well as news from around the world.

If you want to brush up on your birding skills, our monthly Expert Advice section gives you tips on bird ID, which species to look for and where, as well as providing you with skills and knowledge to make you a better birder.

Each issue..
- Features in-depth identification guides
- Comprehensive round-ups of all the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain, Ireland and the wider Western Palearctic.
- Optics reviews
- Birding itineraries
- Detailed and expert tests on binocular, telescopes, digiscoping, tripods, books and many more birdwatching products."

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Birdwatch Magazine  |  May 2022  


IN THIS ISSUE

Which vagrant is most overdue for a reappearance in Britain? In the second part of his series on those extreme rarities that once occurred here but haven’t been seen for decades, Dominic Mitchell turns his attention to passerines.

Also in this month’s magazine, Matt Phelps provides an update on progress at the Knepp Estate rewilding project in Sussex. Well known for its White Stork reintroduction programme, the site is also one of the most rapidly improving biodiversity hot-spots in Britain and many declining bird species are thriving there.

May is the peak month for diversity and number of Arctic-bound shorebirds on your patch. In this month’s ID guide, Josh Jones provides tips on how to find and recognise several species of Calidris sandpipers, from the familiar Dunlin to the highly prized Temminck’s Stint and Broad-billed Sandpiper.

Spring is a wonderful time for birding, with summer migrants arriving and others moving through on passage. But it’s also a key time for a less visible yet integral element of birds’ annual life cycles – nesting. Lee Barber and Mike Toms of the BTO explain how to hone your nest-finding skills and contribute valuable data to science.

Looking further afield, Sam Jones reports on a once-in-a-lifetime seabird cruise in the Southern Ocean – Flock to Marion – which offered a stunning array of albatrosses, petrels and plenty more besides.

Plus: more entertaining comment from columnists Lucy McRobert, Dominic Mitchell and David Campbell, the team at BirdGuides provides round-ups of March’s birding highlights from Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic, news, views and reviews, advice on building your birding skills and knowledge and our expert panel answers your questions.

Bonus content includes:
• Video of spring Calidris waders;
• Film of a singing Common Nightingale;
• Footage of nesting White Storks
• Sound recordings of thesongs and calls of Goldcrest and Firecrest
"Birdwatch is the UK’s leading monthly magazine for keen birders. It covers a huge range of wildlife topics, from species spotlights and illegal bird killing to conservation and the environment, as well as news from around the world.

If you want to brush up on your birding skills, our monthly Expert Advice section gives you tips on bird ID, which species to look for and where, as well as providing you with skills and knowledge to make you a better birder.

Each issue..
- Features in-depth identification guides
- Comprehensive round-ups of all the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain, Ireland and the wider Western Palearctic.
- Optics reviews
- Birding itineraries
- Detailed and expert tests on binocular, telescopes, digiscoping, tripods, books and many more birdwatching products."
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Excellent quality

Great with regard as companion to the television programmes Reviewed 19 April 2022
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I look forward to each issue, love reading it. Reviewed 18 June 2020

Brilliant.... But!

This magazine app is excellent apart from a few teething problems the 'pocket mag' group appear to be having. The content & additional videos are worth it alone however, downloading & reopening the magazine on my ipad2 has been a problem... It has froze & failed to download on two separate occasions. An email to pocketmag quickly resolved the issue. A future 5star set up im sure once these minor issues have been resolved fully.... Reviewed 18 January 2013

Birdwatch

This is a great magazine and a must for any bird fan Reviewed 23 November 2012

Great magazine, as usual, however I think I still prefer the hard copy version Reviewed 29 October 2012

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