So what's the best city for birding? First of all a few criteria I reckon we should stick to:
1. It should be a reasonably sized place (maybe a population over 100,000?). A crofting township on Fair Isle is a bit too small.
2. The birding that it's good for should be either within the city or very close by. Don't argue that somewhere's good because it's next to the motorway and you can get everywhere else to twitch stuff easily.
3. It should be good for both a wide range of regular and breeding birds and rarities.
We can obviously do this on different scales i.e. best in Britain, best in the world.
When I get round to it I'll make the case for Aberdeen, unless someone else wants to do it instead.
1. It should be a reasonably sized place (maybe a population over 100,000?). A crofting township on Fair Isle is a bit too small.
2. The birding that it's good for should be either within the city or very close by. Don't argue that somewhere's good because it's next to the motorway and you can get everywhere else to twitch stuff easily.
3. It should be good for both a wide range of regular and breeding birds and rarities.
We can obviously do this on different scales i.e. best in Britain, best in the world.
When I get round to it I'll make the case for Aberdeen, unless someone else wants to do it instead.