Here are some of my favourite sites, both professional and amateur.
It's amazing to think that, when I started out birding, only a tiny fraction of today's knowledge even existed; and most of what did exist was inaccessible. Today, not only is there far greater knowledge - and coverage of important bird areas - but much of this is but one click away, 24/7, on the Internet.
With luck, bird conservation as well as bird finding and identification will benefit from this 'democracy of knowledge'.
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Steve Arlow's excellent record of his local patching, travels and especially his passionate pursuit of gulls in Essex and across the world. |
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Informative county website maintained by local birders and bird artisans (such as the highly talented Mike Langman and John Gale), with links to some great bird and wildlife art. |
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Collection of Mike Langman's artwork including field sketches, book plates, paintings and interpretation displays for the RSPB and other national and local wildlife organisations. |
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Charting Nial and Charlie Moores' (among others) valiant efforts to draw attention to the critical need for bird conservation in South Korea. |
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Birder and tour leader, Stuart's site is a great combination of British rarities, insects and worldwide birding tour highlights. Well worth a browse. |
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Exemplar website from Martin Cade and friends that combines observatory blog (in both words and pictures) with brilliantly informative notes on bird identification. |
Focus on gulls |
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Documenting interesting gulls in and around Amsterdam. |
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Describe's Frank's ringing projects in the Netherlands, including a map of ringing codes for European Black-headed and Common Gulls (see "Colourcodes" page). |
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Recording the cannon netting exploits, ringing and recovery of gulls in the Thames Estuary by Paul Roper and his dedicated band. |
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Research, papers, links and photos and lots of identification stuff. |
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Published papers from the GRO. |
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Rudy Offereins' images and write-ups on less well-known plumages of large gulls likely to be encountered in NW-Europe, with an extensive set of gull-related links. |
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Dick Newell's site has an especially good collection of taxing and instructive gull images, principally from the UK. |
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Kent Olsen's personal illustrated blog dedicated to gulls in Denmark and beyond. |
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Kirk Zufelt's gull blog from Ontario, Canada. |
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Michalis Dretakis' gull blog. |
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Gull blog from Albert Cama and Joan Ferrer. |
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Chris Gibbins' blog. |
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Gull sightings diary and analysis. |
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Jem Babbington's guide to the large gulls of Saudi Arabia. |
