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I am putting together a short trip to see the Brown Fish Owls in Turkey in the last week of June 2012. I shall also take in the Birecik area, Nemrut Dag and Demircazik, so a fair selection of birds on offer. If you are interested in joining me, please email me at LGREUK400@aol.com

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British Birding Association

The Brazilian Congress has just passed a catastrophic forestry bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of the Amazon. Now only President Dilma can stop it. Fortunately, the timing is on our side — in weeks Dilma will host the world’s biggest environmental summit and insiders say she cannot [...]

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British Birding Association

In my opinion, the South Landing bird best matches a first-summer male ATLAS PIED FLYCATCHER – a species new to Britain – and on the back of 5 or 6 similar extralimital records elsewhere in southern Europe in the past week, most likely associated. There have also been a number of recent vagrant records of [...]

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British Birding Association

Alan Amery was a very special person. He was a man in a million. He was so caring and kind and passionate about his birding. In all of the 35 years that I had known Alan, I had never known him have a bad word about anybody – he just wanted to remain neutral. He [...]

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British Birding Association

Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011. Markus Fischer led the team at Festo that [...]

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British Birding Association

UK’s largest new wetland to be created in Somerset 20 Million pounds is to be spent creating the largest new salt marsh in the UK in Somerset after planning permission was finally agreed. This long awaited projected, spearheaded by the Environment Agency in conjunction with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust that will see the sea [...]

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British Birding Association

Avaaz—meaning “voice” in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages—launched in 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional [...]

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British Birding Association

Many of you have been kind enough to fully update me with your latest life list totals but I believe many list totals are still incorrect and in need of updating. Download the current UK400 Club submission Form Once completed please submit to LGRE by email, UK400 Club Contact Details Here UK400 Club Bird Forum [...]

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British Birding Association

Isle of Man News recently reported that Manx Shearwaters are going to be protected on the Calf Of Man by a planned cull of brown rats that are now living on the islet. Two hundred years ago, the Calf, a bird observatory for over 50 years that is located off the southern tip of the Isle [...]

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British Birding Association

Birdlife International recently reported that Half of the world’s most important sites for nature are currently unprotected. The world’s governments have committed to increasing the coverage of protected areas by 2020 in order to address rapid rates of environmental destruction. However, a new study shows that only half of the most important sites for wildlife [...]

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