Birdwatch Magazine August 2025 Edizione posteriore

INSIDE THE AUGUST 2025 ISSUE OF BIRDWATCH MAGAZINE

• A LIFE OF COUNTY LISTING: CHESHIRE: With a focus on her productive coastal patch at Red Rocks, Jane Turner recounts some of the many highlights during a lifetime of birding in Cheshire.

• IT’S SHOWTIME: Famed for its birdfair, Rutland Water is also a renowned birding site, as local resident and fair founder Tim Appleton explains.

• AN IMPRESSIVE LITTLE GATHERING: George Bennett charts the remarkable history of Little Gull at the East Yorkshire hot-spot of Hornsea Mere.

• FIELD ID NOTES: SOUTH POLAR SKUA: Bob Flood and Daniel López-Velasco detail the ID of this subtle seabird rarity.

• THE GHOST OF MIGRATION PAST: A recent downward trend in UK Ortolan Bunting records seems unlikely to change, writes Ed Stubbs.

• LESS HASTE WITH THE RENAME GAME: Barbara Mearns argues the case for retaining eponymous names for birds.

• SWIFT-FILLED SKIES: Mauritania is an irresistible draw for Western Palearctic birders.