More Sites of Interest

These are links to various birding sites, but there are links to some key organisations.

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SueRob Photography has a wonderful selection of photographs, many of British Birds but also other wildlife and landscapes taken by Sue Robinson.

canvasmagic.co.uk produce high quality framed canvas prints of photographic images, printed on 100% cotton material.

Algarve Apartments and Villas Great discounts of up 30% on rounds of golf when you book one of our apartments. Discounts on various excursions throughout the Algarve.

All-Birds provides identification tips, photographs, songs and calls, and more. Also, how to attract favourite birds to your backyard with feeders. (American website)

Andalucian Guides is dedicated to birdwatching in southern Spain (in English).

Ashley Beolens - This web site has lots of superb photos taken by digiscoping along with guidelines on the equipment used and their settings. There are also field trip reports and an account about his local patch.

Autumn Fruits a place for all those with a passion for gardening, wildlife and hedgerow habitats.

BBC Countryfile Magazine With places to visit, local food to taste and outdoor pursuits to experience, Countryfile Magazine tackles the latest rural and environmental stories, explaining how they affect you today.

BBC Nature has web pages dedicated to Birds on its Nature web site.

BBC Birmingham have a feature on the Big Garden Birdwatch and information on how to take part, make bird cakes and tables.

binoculars-expert.co.uk Find binoculars at binoculars-expert.co.uk, Low prices, fast delivery and a wide range.

BirdBarn.co.uk Specialist bird shop supplying wooden bird houses, bird feeders and bird nesting boxes for your garden.

Bird Box Cameras a small family-run business supplying an ever-increasing range of wildlife products, such as nest boxes and feeders, fitted with cameras.

Birding Site Guide provides birders with free, where to watch birds information at over 530 sites worldwide.

Bird On is hosted by Jacobi Jayne & Company and has information on wild birds, how to attract them to the garden, and articles by the late Chris Mead.

Birds of Holland is a bilingual Dutch site - check out the fantastic photographs!

Birdcam offer nesting boxes with tiny video cameras fitted that can send live pictures and sound to your television so that you can watch nesting birds from the comfort of your armchair.

BirdingIsrael.com is Israel's premier birding website for everything you wanted to know about birds, birdwatching and birding tours in Israel.

Birdingstuff.com A comprehensive site for novice bird watchers with tips and helpful articles.

BirdShopper.com is an American website providing bird feeders, bird houses and much more for wild birds. There are lots of interesting articles too, including bird feeding, bird baths and so on.

BirdSounds CD offers 800 sound recordings of bird song for about 300 species.

Birdtours.co.uk provides free birdwatching trip reports from around the world.

Bird Watching at Casa Rosa Algarve Portugal has lots of information and birding reports for the Algarve, Portugal.

Birdwatching in Uzbekistan provides information on birdwatching in Uzbekistan as well as about its historical cities of the Great Silk Road.

Border's Birds is a diary of the birds that visit a rural garden in the Scottish Borders.

Brinsea - Garden Bird Products are a range of Novabird garden bird products imported to the UK from the USA. These innovative products have been designed by bird lovers and include a fully automatic digital camera with motion sensor and a variety of bird feeders.

Brinvale Bird Foods is a family run business on an arable farm and sells wild bird food and seed feeders

British Bird Food supplies top quality wild bird seeds and other wild bird food, in environmentally friendly packaging, in addition to a wide range of garden bird feeders and nest boxes.

British Bird Lovers is dedicated to anyone who enjoys caring for and observing wild birds.

British Nature offers easy access to information and photographs of British birds.

British Wildlife Helpline among other things this site has a very useful list of wildlife centres in Britain.

Buzz Optics specialise in binoculars including monoculars and spotting scopes for bird watching enthusiasts.

The Cambrian Lapwing Recovery Trust aims to preserve for the public benefit of endangered species of wild birds, their environment and habitat, and in particular but not exclusively lapwings.

CamNest website is linked to two colour nest box cameras and another one looking at several bird feeders.

Catalan Bird Tours offers birding holidays and tours in Spain for families and serious birders.

Chatterbirds Bird Watching Network is a birdwatching network to track and identify bird species, keep a birding diary, find bird watching hotspots, share your birding and nature photos and more.

Cheep Nestboxes is a cottage industry producing cheap, environmentally friendly nest boxes for a wide range of species.

Chew Valley Ringing Station web site provides information about their history, activities, training courses, etc.

Colchester Natural History Society

Common Swift is dedicated solely to the Common Swift and has lots of fascinating information, photographs and a discussion board.

Concept Design (Landscape Practice) provide designs for gardens, garden renovation and landscaping services. They also offer these services for wildlife gardens and nature reserves.

Danny Laredo displays many superb photographs of birds and other wildlife on his website.

Dean Birders (Disabled Forest of Dean birders) is full of birding information, photos, stats and useful links of interest to all birders, disabled or otherwise.

Deans Family Garden Birds is mostly garden bird photos and a bird feeder webcam.

Design-A-Canvas can put your favourite wildlife photograph on to canvas.

Discovering Alpine Birds is a blog sharing the natural delights of the Alps of Tirol.

dk garden design Award winning garden designers, landscape consultants and garden builders. Committed organic grower and designer.

DTSystems is an audio systems company, but they have a page including drawings and photos of their sparrow terrace nest box, feeding birds, preventing predation, etc.

The official web site of Echo's Haven, a Bird Sanctuary in South Florida that cares for unwanted, neglected and special-needs parrots.

EndemicGuides.com supports sustainable nature travel in Malaysia and Borneo, including a birdwatching tour.

English Country Garden is a celebration of the diversity of birds and other animals, and flowers and trees found in an English country garden.

EverythinGBirds - Everything you need to start bird watching in GB - only one click away!

The web site of Francesco Ciabattini (in English) is dedicated to the macro-photography of insects and fungi, and includes spectacular photographs of insects in flight.

Garden Birds South Africa is for South Africans passionate about birds and especially the birds in their gardens, but is of interest to British garden birdwatchers too.

Garden Fountains Looking to Attract Birds to Your Yard and Garden? Visit Garden Fountains for ideas (USA).

Gardenature (formerly Wig Wam Wild Cams) offer a range of wildlife cameras that let you experience the thrill and excitement of watching the secret lives of your garden visitors from the comfort of your own living room.

Gerald Geoghegan runs a library of moving images of British and European Wildlife. This footage may be licensed for use in film makers production. Freeze-frame examples of his work can be found on this site.

Greg's Bird Bloggings is all about Greg's garden birds and bird watching activities as well as some useful feeding tips.

Guided Birdwatching Find a birding guide for your next trip.

Halcyon Gambia offers the Complete Birding Holiday in The Gambia.

Handykam.com sell a wide range of bird box cameras and wildlife cameras throughout UK, Europe and World. The hand made, plug in and play, Cornish nest boxes were featured on BBC Springwatch and make perfect gifts for young and old.

Harrison Telescopes stock a large collection of binoculars and spotting scopes which may be of interest to the keen Bird Watcher.

Help British Wildlife another site offering advice on caring for injured wildlife, including a list of rescue centres.

Het Merelleven (Dutch & English) is solely about Blackbirds and, among other things, has good photographs of leucistic birds.

Jeremy's Wildlife Web Site shares information about the birds and other wildlife that visit a garden in Somerset.

Judy Woods Heritage Site serves the interests of Judy Woods, in Bradford, and the wildlife it supports and aims to have the woods nominated as a Local Nature Reserve.

Junglegold Limited are primarily a supplier of Parrot Foods but also offer wild bird foods including some that are not usually seen on popular wild bird food sites. For example, extruded fat granules containing insects and berries and specialist egg food.

Kennedy Wild Bird sell a wide range of luxurious foods and other accessories for your garden birds. There are also pages of advice and tips to help attract a variety of species all year round.

Las Aves en La Ria de Noia is about the birds in this Spanish town, which may be of interest if you are holiday there (in Spanish).

LearnAnimals.com is an ongoing project that aims to bring information on the animals of the World into one place.

London's Swifts has allsorts of facts and figures about the Swifts in London.

Midland Owls and Garden Birds is about the birds in a Midlands garden. The site is young and being developed by a young enthusiast, but already there are some great photographs of birds.

Mull Birds is a site for birdwatchers with an interest in Argyll and the islands.

mymousemat.com produce and supply personalised mouse mats from your own personal photo or picture.

Natural Born Birder is the work of Julian Bell, a birder in Norway. There are lots of photos and there will be details of seabird migration.

Natural History Pictures is a photographic library of British flora and fauna (and some other countries). The stunning photographs are the work of John Robinson.

Nature Images is a showcase of stunning landscape and wildlife photographs by Darren Chaplin. Other examples of his fine work are included in the photo album.

Nature in Art (UK) is the worlds first museum and art gallery dedicated exclusively to art inspired by nature. Artists include: Picasso, David Shepherd, Audubon, Simon Combes, Peter Scott and many others.

Nature in Art (USA) is the website of Sue Shimeld, who is a wildlife artist, natural history illustrator and pet portrait artist. There's a gallery to visit where you can admire some of her work and a shop from where you can buy a fine artwork.

Natuur Fotografie is where Harry Leurmans shares his love of wildlife and photography. Based in the Netherlands, but in both English and Dutch.

Noahs Ark Wildlife Gardens is a small business based in Hertfordshire and supplies wild bird and animal feeds, feeders, tables & nest boxes, but can also design and construct all sorts of wild garden features to attract wildlife to gardens in the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.

Ornithopod is Elizabeth and Malcolm's video diary of two nest boxes. Last year they recorded a pair of Blue Tits nest building, egg laying, hatching and finally fledging. Visit in the summertime and check on this year's progress.

Petreatz.co.uk - Treat the wildlife to something special. Retailers of head turning pet accessories and wild bird feeders.

photobirdireland.com is a growing photographic resource of the birds found in Ireland.

Quantum Tiger is the website of Ian Coleman, an amateur photographer specialising in wildlife and landscape photography

RaZSAR Holidays in Kimberley aims to develop the area into a sustainable adventure and ecotourism destination in South Africa, which is one of the top birding destinations in the World.

The Reptiles Directory has reptiles related news, books and web resources.

Riverside Woodcraft is a small family business making an impressive selection of wildlife products including bird tables and nest boxes, as well as specialising in custom made nest boxes.

Robert E Fuller is a wildlife artist and his website displays some of his fantastic paintings of British birds and mammals, and other wild animals from around the world. Paintings, prints and cards are also available for purchase.

Rons Wildlife Products Handmade wildlife products for the wildlife gardener, including many kinds of nest boxes ready-made and in kit form for many kinds of British birds.

Scotland: Photographs & Pictures of Scotland has lots of great photographs of Scottish wildlife, including birds of prey, and scenery.

Sennen Cove Birdwatching gives a daily update of birds seen in the Penwith area of Cornwall, which is one of the top birding areas in the UK.

Sheffield Bird Study Group is primarily concerned with birds and conservation issues in and around Sheffield. Also information about activities, news, etc.

shirlsgardenwatch.co.uk is diary for a small private garden in Scotland that includes video clips of visiting garden birds.

Soar Mill Seeds Based on a south Devon farm, this company sell bird food, feeders, bird tables and nest boxes. Catalogue available.

Sparrowhawk Island is dedicated to studying the lives of sparrowhawks.

Squirrel-proof Bird Feeders provides information and tips on squirrel proof bird feeders and ways to discourage the squirrels.

Stealth Wildlife Products sells bird and nature watching equipment including clothing, optics, tripods, bean bags, luggage, hides, camera equipment, bird feeders and nesting boxes.

Steven Round Bird Photography - A growing collection of excellent photographs of birds, mammals and insects, and some will take your breath away when you see the detail.

Sue's Bird Photos is a large and growing collection of high quality bird photographs, some have been published in popular magazines or won prizes.

Swish is all about pets, garden and leisure products, which includes an exciting range of bird tables and feeders.

The Biking Birder aims to raise funds for charities by seeing more than 250 species while cycling round the country, visiting every RSPB and WWT reserve (open to the public) on the way.

The Birdbox Project The South East Grid for Learning live birdbox webcam project for schools.

thebirdinsight.com is a forum for birdwatchers and bird conservationists around the world. International bird news is posted when it happens and there's also information on current bird conservation campaigns and petitions.

The Birdtable.co.uk offers bird foods and feeders, nest boxes and other products. There are also wonderful bird sketches, advice, links, and a discussion forum.

The Netherfield Wildlife Group monitors the Netherfield Lagoons, Nottinghamshire.

The Photography of David Cookson is a growing gallery of many breathtakingly beautiful photographs of wildlife and its environment.

The Wildlife Store supplies wildlife gardening products such as bird food and feeders, hedgehog hibernaculums, ladybird lodges, mason bee nests, books and children's clothing. There are educational pages with wildlife gardening projects and other information on wildlife gardening.

Thomson & Morgan are well-known suppliers of quality seeds to gardeners, but they also produce a Bird Catalogue of plants, seeds, and bird food and feeders for creating a wildlife haven in your garden.

Tills Innovations is a small family company that designs and manufactures many products, such as bird baths, in natural stone from a quarry for gardens and landscapes.

Trevor's Web Site includes photographs and notes on the birds that visit his garden, on the south coast of England, and the nearby cliffs.

UK Birdwatching Links provides an up to date source for links to over 240 sites and pages of interest to birdwatchers in the UK.

UK.BIRDWATCHING.REC newsgroup discusses birdwatching matters of interest to birders in the UK. Topics range from sightings, optical equipment, feeding, nesting, photography and biology.

Wackybirder is James Pullinger's (10 year's old) web site about birdwatching in the East Midlands.

West Wales Binoculars, based in Pembrokeshire, sells binoculars, spotting scopes, tripods and other accessories.

When to Watch Wildlife is a month by month guide to what wildlife you can see in Britain. It is a non-commercial site, produced by a passionate wildlife enthusiast.

Wild About Britain is a forum for those interested about British wildlife, the Environment and the Great Outdoors; from birds, butterflies, fungi and trees to climate change, marine life, astronomy and the weather.

Wild Bird Food Direct is an independent online supplier of discount Wild Bird Food and Wild Bird Seed.

Wildlife Art Prints features the magnificent bird, fish and wildlife art of David Miller, David Cowdry and Andrew Evans.

Wildlife Galleries is the website of Mark Elvin and contains contains many superb images of birds, animals, insects and landscapes. There's also a gallery where you can upload your own photos. Be sure to check the photos of a couple of Robins fighting.

Wildlife Gardening with Jenny Steel is about getting started with wildlife gardening and the wildlife that could be around in your garden at the moment. By a plant ecologist and professional wildlife gardener.

WildlifeOnly.com is a North American site selling many types of wildlife accessories. Two sites dedicated to bird accessories are BirdHousesOnly.com, which specialises in bird houses for allsorts of birds, and BirdFeedersOnly.com, which specialises in allsorts of bird feeders, baths, etc.

Wildlife Photographic Journals is Richard Steel's blog of breathtaking bird and wildlife photographs.

Wildlife UK is a forum for discussing all aspects of the UK environment and wildlife including birds.

www.FocusWildlife.com is the Nature and Wildlife Photography website of Ilia Shalamaev.

www.food4wildbirds.co.uk supply a wide range of wild bird food, bird seeds, suet treats, bird feeders and much more.

www.nestwatch.info lets you track the development of a pair of nesting Blue Tits with a weekly diary, photos and webcam.

X Stitch Birds is a UK company producing and selling spectacular cross-stitch kits and charts of birds.