Magazines (6 Viewers)

[jonhicks]

Absolutely. I consider myself an 'advanced beginner(?!)' birder, so the ID articles in Birdwatching are pitched just right for me. While I like to read about rarities (not that Birdwatch is a twitcher mag) I need stuff about commoner species too.

 

[pigsonthewing]

Re: little black books

The reason I was looking for it was to dispute Colin's claim to 600 on his British list (see Avatar postings), cos I've got a feeling that the BTO British list is under 300!

<sigh>

Don't you lot have access to search engines on your computers?

The BOU website states "Total no. of species on British List (cats A, B, C) 564", and lists them.

 

[jeff]

As i posted in an earlier thread, but should that not read 565 now as Snowy Egret Egretta thula has now been added the the A list!

 

[T0ny]

Information confirmation

<sigh>

Don't you lot have access to search engines on your computers?

The BOU website states "Total no. of species on British List (cats A, B, C) 564", and lists them.

Thank you for confirming what we all knew last year, Andy - and by the way, as a member of this forum, aren't you part of 'us lot' ?

Tony

 

[Surreybirder]

Hi JohnJ,

Not sure whether Annie saw this one and I only came across it by accident, but the link is Birds of Britain online magazine
It carries some good articles, though not on a par with Birdforum of course

Birds of Britain is still going but it seems to only produce a new 'monthly' issue about every two or three months? Unless I'm missing something.

 

[Dan drough]

For a better class of magazine try these out -

Birds Illustrated
Africa birds & Birding

Both are superb

 

[florall]

I love the pictures in Birds Illustrated, Dan, but the spelling mistakes and typos in it are appalling. It's a quality magazine, and they should spend more time and effort on proofreading. It takes the edge off it for me.

 

[Andy Ledger]

Birdwatch value?

Do you think anyone from Birdwatch is lurking here and if so do you think that will take any notice. I hope so for their sake. It's a shame as the magazine is well turned out, cosmetically, but could do with a facelift material wise.

I suspect that if they were lurking, they were fired soon after for suggesting to the management that the magazine was too thin. Nearly two years down the line, and I'm STILL disappointed that it's a bit skinny compared with Bird Watching. Ho hum.