- Birding World
Infobox Journal
discipline =Ornithology
abbreviation =
country = UK
website = http://www.birdingworld.co.uk/
publisher = Bird Information Service
history =1987 to present
ISSN = 0969-6024"Birding World" is a monthly birding journal published in the
United Kingdom . It is the magazine of the Bird Information Service, based atCley next the Sea ,Norfolk .Originally published in 1987 as "Twitching" volume 1, the magazine underwent a name-change, to its present name, at the end of that year (also resetting its volume count back to 1). The editor is
Steve Gantlett and the assistant editorRichard Millington .It is aimed at birders with an interest in the occurrence and identification of rare birds in the
United Kingdom and theWestern Palearctic . It also coversbirding -related material from around the globe.The range of material published includes:
* papers on bird identification, often including proposed new identification characters for difficult grous of taxa
* news articles on rare birds in Britain and elsewhere in the Western PalearcticSignificant articles published include:
* A three-part series byKrister Mild on the identification ofWestern Palearctic black-and-white flycatcher s
* A number of papers on the Feas's/Zino's Petrel group
* An identification paper on Booted, Sykes', Western Olivaceous andEastern Olivaceous Warbler sIn 2004, its circulation was estimated at 4000 copies. [
Wallace, D. I. M. (2004) "Beguiled by Birds" ISBN 0-7136-6535-1 page 138]ee also
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List of journals and magazines relating to birding and ornithology External links
* [http://www.birdingworld.co.uk/ Official website]
* [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/biblio/twitching/lesserscaup.htm 'Britain's First Lesser Scaup'] article from "Twitching", vol. 1 issue 3.References
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