Birding World is a monthly birding

Birdwatching

Birdwatching or birding is the observation of birds as a recreational activity. It can be done with the naked eye, through a visual enhancement device like binoculars and telescopes, or by listening for bird sounds. Birding often involves a significant auditory component, as many bird species are...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. It is the magazine of the Bird Information Service, based at Cley next the Sea

Cley next the Sea

Cley next the Sea is a village on the River Glaven in Norfolk, England, 4 miles north-west of Holt and east of Blakeney. The main A149 coast road runs through the centre of the village, causing congestion in the summer months due to the tight, narrow streets. It lies within the Norfolk Coast AONB...

, Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

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Originally published in 1987 as Twitching volume 1, the magazine underwent a name-change, to its present name, at the end of that year (also resetting its volume count back to 1). The editor is Steve Gantlett

Steve Gantlett

Stephen J. M. Gantlett is a British birder. He lives in Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.He is editor of Birding World magazine. He also co-runs Birdline, a telephone information service containing news of rare birds, with Richard Millington....

 and the assistant editor Richard Millington

Richard Millington

Richard Millington is a British birder and bird artist. He lives in Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk with his wife Hazel.He is assistant editor of Birding World magazine. His contributions to that journal include many articles on bird identification. He also runs Birdline, a telephone information service...

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It is aimed at birders with an interest in the occurrence and identification of rare birds in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and the Western Palearctic. It also covers birding-related material from around the globe.

The range of material published includes:

• 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 include:

• A three-part series by Krister Mild on the identification of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers
• A number of papers on the Feas's
  Fea's Petrel
  Fea's Petrel is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, Pterodroma. It was previously considered to be a subspecies of the Soft-plumaged Petrel, P. mollis, but they are actually not closely related at all. However, P. feae is very closely related to Zino's Petrel and Deserta's Petrel, two...
  
  /Zino's Petrel
  Zino's Petrel
  The Zino's Petrel or Freira, Pterodroma madeira, is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus which is endemic to the island of Madeira. This long-winged petrel has a grey back and wings, with a dark "W" marking across the wings, and a grey upper tail...
  
   group
• An identification paper on Booted
  Booted Warbler
  The Booted Warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler group. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with Sykes' Warbler, but the two are now usually both afforded species status...
  
  , Sykes'
  Sykes' Warbler
  Sykes' Warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler family. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Booted Warbler, but is now considered a full species. Its breeding range is from northeast Arabia to Afghanistan...
  
  , Western Olivaceous
  Western Olivaceous Warbler
  The Western Olivaceous Warbler, also known as Isabelline Warbler, is a "warbler", formerly placed in the Old World warblers when these were a paraphyletic wastebin taxon. It is now considered a member of the acrocephaline warblers, Acrocephalidae, in the tree warbler genus Hippolais ...
  
   and Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
  Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
  The Eastern Olivaceous Warbler is a "warbler", formerly placed in the Old World warblers when these were a paraphyletic wastebin taxon. It is now considered a member of the acrocephaline warbelrs, Acrocephalidae, in the tree warbler genus Hippolais ...
  
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In 2004, its circulation was estimated at 4000 copies.

External links

• Birding World
• 'Britain's First Lesser Scaup' article from Twitching, vol. 1 issue 3.