Birdwatch Magazine  |  February 2025
Birdwatch February 2025
IN THIS MONTH’S ISSUE
• BIRDERS’ CHOICE AWARDS 2024: The results are in and the winners of this year’s awards have been decided!
• 2024: A YEAR IN REVIEW: Sam Viles looks back at an action-packed 12 months of extreme rarities and fascinating influxes.
• FIELD ID NOTES: AMERICAN HERRING GULL: Josh Jones focuses on first-winter plumage of this transatlantic vagrant and how to separate it from European Herring Gull.
• NEW WORLD ORDER: Alex Berryman takes a look at the new taxonomic future and what changes birders can expect in the months and years ahead.
• WHAT’S GOING ON AT THE RSPB?: Lucy McRobert investigates the cost-cutting measures being implemented at the conservation charity.
• STRONSAY, THE UNDERWATCHED ISLAND: Jake Gearty reflects on an autumn birding trip to one of Orkney’s least-visited isles.
• SHOREBIRD LOST FOREVER: Arnoud van den Berg recalls his time in Morocco studying Slender-billed Curlew, which has recently been declared extinct.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Birdwatch Magazine February 2025.