Birding World
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Birding World was a monthly birding magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was the magazine of the Bird Information Service, based at Cley next the Sea, Norfolk. With the publication of issue No. 26/12 in January 2014, Birding World magazine ceased publication.[1][2]
History and profile
Originally published in 1987[3] as Twitching volume 1, the magazine underwent a name-change to this name, in 1988 (also resetting its volume count back to 1).[2] The editor was Steve Gantlett, and the assistant editor Richard Millington.
It was aimed at
The range of material published included:
- papers on bird identification, often including proposed new identification characters for difficult groups of taxa
- news articles on rare birds in Britain and elsewhere in the Western Palearctic
Significant articles published included:
- A three-part series by Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers
- A number of papers on the Feas's/Zino's petrel group
- An identification paper on Sykes', western olivaceous and eastern olivaceous warblers
In 2004, its circulation was estimated at 4000 copies.[4]
See also
- List of journals and magazines relating to birding and ornithology
References
- ^ www.birdingworld.co.uk Birding World
- ^ a b "Birding World". Ornithology Exchange. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-7153-3529-1. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ISBN 0-7136-6535-1p. 138
External links
- Birding World
- Evans, Graham (April 1987). "Britain's First Lesser Scaup". Twitching. 1 (3): 65–66. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012.
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