Bird Watching Guides

Whether you’re new to bird watching or an experienced birder, learning to identify the hundreds of species of British birds can be a challenge.We’ve put together a comprehensive collection of identification guides covering both common residents and breeding and winter visitors, as well as rare migrants and accidental vagrants. Our guides include detailed descriptions, information about breeding and feeding, full colour photographs, sound recordings, and some interesting facts.You’ll also find mini guides to birds you might find in different habitats or at different times of the year. And for those birds that are hard to tell apart, our interactive ‘spot the difference’ guides will help you learn what to look out for.

British Bird Identification Guides

Over 250 detailed identification guides to British birds including garden birds, birds of prey, farmland birds, seabirds, and waterfowl

Nightjar

Caprimulgus europaeus

Magpie

Pica pica

Tufted Duck

Aythya fuligula

Mini Bird Watching Guides

Designed to help you identify birds within the same family, those sharing the same habitat, or species commonly spotted during a particular season.

British Birds’ Eggs

Birds Of The Royal Parks

British Woodpeckers

Spot The Difference

Interactive guides and spotting tips to help you learn to tell the difference between pairs of similar looking British birds.

Mistle Thrush Or Song Thrush

Black Redstart Or Common Redstart

Marsh Tit Or Willow Tit

Rare British Birds

Over 250 detailed identification guides to British birds including garden birds, birds of prey, farmland birds, seabirds, and waterfowl

Ortolan Bunting

Emberiza hortulana

Blackpoll Warbler

Setophaga striata

Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

British Bird Families

Disvoer the 82 families of birds found in the UK including Galliformes, Anseriformes, Charadriiformes, Falconiformes, Strigiformes, Accipitriformes, and, Passeriformes.

Treecreepers

Grebes

Rollers

Birds Around The World

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