UK400ClubRareBirdAlert

This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert highlighting all records of avian interest and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers and utilising additional information gleaned from the Regional Birdlines, BirdGuides, local email groups and individual observers

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Through the 300 barrier..........

Before we have even got to the end of March, the record-breaking temperatures and light SE winds have ensured the total number of species re...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL in Ireland

A RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL spent all day yesterday at Galley Head in County Cork - the first ever twitchable bird in Ireland. It was discovered ...

Monday, 26 March 2012

The first BAILLON'S CRAKE in Ireland since the 18th Century !

Photographer Derek Charles was among just 30 lucky twitchers that savoured this charming tiny crake on Sunday, showing down to just a few ya...

'Higgo' finds a SCOPS OWL

Bird finder extraodinaire John Higginson stumbled upon a SCOPS OWL at Porthellick, SCILLY, just as it was getting dark last night, after he ...

Saturday, 24 March 2012

BAILLON'S CRAKE in County Wexford, IRELAND

Temperatures reached 72 degrees fahrenheit in southern England today, whilst a SE wind bathed most of the coastline. With exceptionally earl...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

HOODED MERGANSER identification and review of British/Irish records

Have finally finished with the Hooded Merganser file and have updated this species' status in Britain and Ireland, detailing those recor...

Statement released by the Badger Trust this afternoon

“ THE BADGER TRUST welcomes the Welsh Government’s science-based decision to vaccinate badgers against bovine tuberculosis (bTB). This is th...

Fantastic News - Badger cull reprieval in Welsh stronghold

Fantastic news. The Welsh Assembly has abandoned the coalition government's proposals for a Badger cull in Wales and have decided to go ...

Sunday, 18 March 2012

UK400Clubonline.co.uk relaunched

The UK400 Club online website has been relaunched and redesigned and is now up and running and available to browse by members. Subscriptions...

NUTHATCH comes off worse as he collides with car

Despite my best efforts, this cute little NUTHATCH sadly passed away overnight, after being hit by a car in the New Forest. The bird was so ...

Spring surges forward with LAUGHING GULL and ALPINE SWIFT new in

The total number of species now recorded in Britain and Ireland this year has risen to 279 with the addition of a first-winter LAUGHING GULL...

Thursday, 15 March 2012

The mysterious WOODCOCK

One of my favourite birds of all time - the enigmatic WOODCOCK

Saturday, 10 March 2012

SHORT-TOED TREECREEPER makes landfall yet again in East Kent

Following on from a few early OSPREYS and the first wave of GARGANEYS, temperatures of up to 64 degrees fahrenheit today induced a vagrant S...

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

COMMON CROSSBILLS with significant bills

Sean Nixon has photographed COMMON CROSSBILLS wintering at Upper Hollesley Common in Suffolk this winter and this shows the variation within...

The putative PARROT CROSSBILL in West Sussex

Some excellent new shots I have just received of the Sussex putative Parrot Crossbill from Mike McKee. Is the forehead extent and bill size ...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Protecting Canada's POLAR BEARS

SIR RICHARD BRANSON CALLS FOR GREATER PROTECTION FOR ONTARIO POLAR BEARS Private Member’s Bill in the works for Ontario, home to almost 1,00...

Monday, 5 March 2012

Product Review: PETRELS, ALBATROSSES & STORM-PETRELS OF NORTH AMERICA - A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE

PETRELS, SHEARWATERS & STORM-PETRELS OF NORTH AMERICA by Steve N.G. Howell Wow, this exciting tome thudded down onto my doormat at the w...

Saturday, 3 March 2012

The thorny problem of GREEN-WINGED TEAL identification - the responses

Dave Appleton of Norfolk responded ''For me these are perfectly good Green-winged Teals, or at least the two features you note as pe...

Friday, 2 March 2012

PADDYFIELD WARBLER showing much better now

Dave Barnes got these excellent shots of the North Wall, Pagham, PADDYFIELD WARBLER this week. The bird has been showing very well in the s...

Variability in NORTH AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL

I had a look at the drake Green-winged Teal in Maldon today and noticed that it is the same bird as recently at Alton Water in South Suffolk...

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About Me

Lee G R Evans: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom; I have been birding since 1969 but became obsessed with 'twitching' in 1974 and haven't looked back since. Have driven over 1.3 million miles in pursuit of rare birds in the UK, where to date I have recorded 588 species in Britain and Ireland. I also have a fascination for the Birds of the Western Palearctic, where I have currently recorded 880 of the 1,064 species ever recorded. I am widely travelled in North America, as well as in Africa and Asia, and have written at least 29 books on my chosen subject, including best-sellers ''Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds' and 'Rare Birds in Britain 1800-1990'. Established the UK400 Club in 1981 to cater for the most obsessive of the British birding fraternity and now concentrate on online publishing, via the www.uk400clubonline.co.uk website. Record Birding achievements include recording 386 species in Britain & Ireland in 1996 and 627+ in the Western Palearctic in 2008

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