Links

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UK Bird Clubs and  Observatories

Bird Clubs, Recording Groups and Sightings Pages

Bird Observatories

• Avon
• Bedfordshire
• ​Berkshire
• Bristol
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Carmarthenshire
• Chasewater
• Cheltenham
• Cheshire and Wirral
• Christchurch Harbour
• Cornwall
• Cumbria
• Dee Estuary
• Devon
• ​Derbyshire
• Dorset
• Durham
• ​East Lancashire
• Glamorgan
• Gwent​
  

• ​Hampshire​
• ​Herefordshire
• Isles of Scilly
• Kent​​
• Lancaster and District
• Leicestershire and Rutland
• ​Lincolnshire
• ​Manchester
• Norfolk
• North Wales 
• Northern Ireland
• ​Northumberland and Tynside
• ​Nottinghamshire
• Outer Hebrides
• Scottish
• ​Sheffield
• ​Shetland
• Shropshire
• Somerset​

• ​Staffordshire
• Surrey
• Sussex​
• Tamworth
• Welsh
• West Midlands
• Western Isles​
• Wiltshire
• ​York
  

• Bardsey 
• Calf of Man
• Cape Clear
• Copeland
• Dungeness
• Fair Isle
• Filey
• Flamborough
• Gibraltar Point
• Hilbre
• Holme
• Isle of May
• Landgaurd
• North Ronaldsay
• Portland
• Sandwich Bay
• Skokholm
• Spurn
• Walney 
• The Bird Observatories Council

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​Useful Bodies and Websites

Birds

Other Wildlife

• Birdforum
• Birdguides
• Birdtrack
• Birdwatch Magazine
• British Birds Journal
• British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
• British Ornithologists' Union (BOU)
• eBird
• Euring
• ​Colour Ring Reporting

• Fat Birder
• Rare Bird Alert
• Royal Society for the Portection of Birds (RSPB)
• Surfbirds
• The British List
• Trektellen
• ​Waderquest
• ​Wadertales
• Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)
• Xeno-canto birdsounds

• Bat Conservation Trust
• British Dragonfly Society
• Butterfly Conservation
• iRecord
• Mammal Society
• National Biodiversity Network
• UK Butterflies
• UK Moths
• ​Swift Conservation

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Tools

Tide Times

• Glasson
• Fleetwood
• Blackpool
• Preston

Weather

• BBC Weather
• Magicseaweed
• Met Office
• XC Weather
  

Mapping

• Free Map Tools
  
• Google Maps
  
• Grid Reference Finder
  
• Streetmap (OS View)
  

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​Facebook Groups and Pages

Local and Regional

National

• Brockholes Nature Reserve (Lancs): General Wildlife etc
• Cumbria Birding Group ​​​
  
• Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve
  
• Marton Mere Wildlife
  
• North Blackpool Pond Trail
  
• North Wales Bird and Wildlife Sightings
  
• North West Birding
• Ribble Estuary Nature
• ​Southport Birders
  

• ​A Focus On Nature
• ​Birders Against Wildlife Crime
• British Facebook Birdwatchers
  
• Next Generation Birders (under 25)
  
• Patchwork Challenge
  
• Rare Birds of Britain and Ireland
  
• Tarsiger
• UK Bird Identification
• UK Gulls​

Other Wildlife

• BBC Springwatch
• British Dragonfly Society
• Lancashire Dragonfly Group
• Lancashire Lepidoptera​
• North Lancashire Bat Group
• Recording Moths
• ​South Lancashire Bat Group
• UK Butterflies
  
• ​UK Micro Moth Identification
  

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