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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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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.

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Things I didn’t know that I didn’t know about British bees

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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.

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Your Best Birds of the Year for 2012

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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. It was wonderful!

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