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What is your quintessential sign of spring? For me, living just north of London, it's the sight of a Northern Wheatear's white rump flashing across a green sward of downland grass. No wonder the early Saxons called them "white a**** ", which was later corrupted to wheatear. I am sure our...

You may have all seen the lists drawn up in Hollywood on the most influential figures in Tinsel Town and the names it throws up: Speilberg, Cruise, Clooney etc. I am compiling a list for a future bird magazine article on the most influential figures in birding. There are no laid down criteria...

Does anyone fancy sharing expenses on a trip to the Azores this autumn to look for Nearctic rarities? I am planning a visit between late September and late October which should tie in nicely with American passerine vagrancy. To whet the appetite, I would point to a recent article in Birding...

I am compiling a list of great birding spectaculars that everyone should experience once in their lifetime. You can guess the sort of thing: Steller's Sea-eagles on Hokkaido; looking for Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas; visiting a penguin rookery etc. I would love to read other forum...