10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
It also makes it a little intimidating to be doing a review of Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland. The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. 560pages, 6.3
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2019
Perhaps just once in a decade, the UK experiences an invasion of Painted Ladies , Vanessa ( Cynthia) cardui. These individuals were seen during a cliff walk in Northern Ireland during August. Painted Ladies are part of the Aristocrat group of butterflies. This year is an irruption year with Painted Ladies showing up in abundance.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
All month long we’ll be visiting – in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
Most of the Icelandic population winters in the British isles The sightings stopped, but then on 18 February 2019 EY70 137 was observed on Lady’s Island Lake, Wexford, Ireland. Did it then move on to Ireland? Was this where it spent its winters? It seems highly likely that it was.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2015
Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ). Backed up by hundreds of excellent photographs, they have brought to life the bees of the British Isles.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Graham Clarke liked Dotterel , a bird he needed for Ireland. Dotterel are not exceptionally rare in Ireland occurring during both spring and autumn migration. I have chronicled the experience on my blog. Indigo Bunting Greg Majewski chose a very nice, very red bird as his Best Bird of the Year.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
More importantly however, there used to be a time when identification guides were published that focussed entirely on the British Isles, leaving out many species of “continental” Europe, and these were labelled “of Britain and Europe” to promote sales outside the UK and Ireland.
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