Guilty until proven innocent: social media and bird photography
Some birders can be far too quick to cast online opinion on how photos are taken, without necessarily knowing the facts – which can in turn...
16/05/2021
Always entertaining, sometimes controversial – the views of some of birding's top opinion-makers.
Some birders can be far too quick to cast online opinion on how photos are taken, without necessarily knowing the facts – which can in turn...
16/05/2021
An ancient rarity-hunter gives his observations on listing and related behaviour.
18/04/2021
With birding largely restricted to home at the beginning of 2021, Dominic Mitchell returned to watching and feeding garden birds – and...
30/03/2021
Most birding slang is delightful and illustrative, but one term, borrowed from the shooting industry, is offensive. It's time to drop...
26/03/2021
Barriers to birding remain in place for large sections of our society, and we need to break them down, says one young birder who is...
20/03/2021
New year, new broom. So what should get swept up first? Let's start with a large bunch of uncorroborated historical rarity claims, says...
16/03/2021
It's time for the birding community to step up and help make the outdoors a safe space for women – and that means men must start to act.
12/03/2021
Forty years on from a Wild Weekend in Brixton, the environment is still a word to be avoided and wildlife is suffering for it – it's time...
22/01/2021
A new event in the birding calendar got off to a flying start back in the autumn, raising vital funds for conservation and encouraging...
10/01/2021
Rarities committees do a great job of assessing records based on evidence submitted by observers. In the case of national firsts, should...
12/12/2020
Every birder should use a notebook, right? Wrong, as Dominic Mitchell discovered when he kicked a habit of 43 years and downloaded an app...
01/11/2020
Dominic Mitchell contemplates the unprecedented spectacle of a Bearded Vulture in the Peak District, and what it meant to so many.
18/10/2020