GBC Events during 2025
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January 2025
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February 2025
- Castle Loch, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire
- Attenborough Nature Reserve, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire
- RSPB Saltholme, Stockton-on-Tees and locality
- February Zoom talk 1 - Birds & Experiences on the Island of Papua
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March 2025
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April 2025
- RSPB Rye Meads, Hertfordshire
- RSPB Middleton Lakes, Tamworth, Staffordshire
- Central London Parks
- Pulborough Brooks RSPB, West Sussex
- Arger Fen & Spouse's Vale, Assington, Suffolk
- Grand Get Together 14, Highlands of Scotland, 3 day event
- April Zoom talk - Experiences on St Kilda
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May 2025
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June 2025
- Upton Warren, Worcestershire
- Inchcailloch Island, Stirlingshire
- Paxton Pits, Huntingdonshire
- Acton Bridge, Cheshire
- RSPB Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire
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July 2025
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August 2025
- Connah's Quay, Dee Estuary
- Pot Luck Picnic, Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire
- RSPB Blacktoft Sands, East Yorkshire
- Carlingnose Point, Fife
- Ythan Estuary and Blackdog, Aberdeenshire
- Loch of Strathbeg & nearby sites
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September 2025
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October 2025
- Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve, Lancashire
- Walton on the Naze, Essex
- Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre, Egleton, Oakham, Rutland
- West Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex
- North Norfolk weekend
- October Zoom talk - subject to be advised
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November 2025
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December 2025
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Links
Gay birding and similar organisations
- GBNA - Gay Bird Watchers North America.
- The GAGGLE- a lesbian and gay birders group in Greater Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Well worth visiting if you are a lesbian or gay birder in the US.
- Gay Outdoor Club - home page for the popular UK-based club. Covers interests in walking, mountaineering, rock climbing, cycling, swimming etc.
UK birding links
- TideTimes - You can view today's tide times quickly and easily.
- Wildsounds - a company run by our own Duncan Macdonald. Wildlife books, audio and multimedia guides.
- Surfbirds - a great magazine site for UK/US birding issues, including some great I.D. features.
- The Fat Birder - a great site with all kinds of information for all levels of birding ability.
- Birdguides - A commercial site which includes regular updates of rare bird news.
- Rare Bird Alerts - A UK bird news service.
UK ornithological and nature conservation organisations
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - protects birds and wildlife sites in the UK on behalf of more than 1 million members.
- British Trust for Ornithology - a research organisation which coordinates a number of major surveys, including Atlases, Breeding Bird Survey, Wetlands Bird Survey etc.
- Wader Quest - ambassadors for waders/shorebirds. The Gay Birders' Club is a founder club sponsor.
- Worldwide Fund for Nature Global Network - an excellent site for this organisation devoted to wildlife conservation across the world.
- The Wildlife Trusts' Partnership - the umbrella organisation for the local nature conservation trusts.
- Great Bustard Group - restoring the Great Bustard in the UK.
Birding links for North America
- American Birding Association Online - a large organisation for field birders in USA.
- Audubon Society - large membership organisation geared to conservation of natural ecosystems.
- Peterson on line - an online magazine for birders. Many popular articles about birds.
- The Virtual Birder - another internet magazine for birders.
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology - sound recordings galore, mainly for North American birds, but the labs collect wildlife recordings from across the world
Worldwide birding links
- Where do you want to go birding today ? - Probably the most comprehensive set of links for birding sites. I doubt there is anywhere in the world that has been missed out
Seabird sites
- Ocean Wanderers - Angus Wilson's identification resource. Includes taxonomic list for all the seabirds and marine mammals.
- Brian Patteson Pelagics - a fantastic site giving a lot of information about pelagic trips organised off North Carolina. Lots of pictures, including a new species for the North American list.
- Shearwater Journeys Home Page – Debi Love Shearwater's site for pelagic trips out of Monterey Bay, California. Anyone with a name like this has to be into seabirds, big time.
Elsewhere in the world
- Australian Birding - a great starting point for information about birding in Australia and a good set of antipodean links
- New Zealand Birds - and the same for New Zealand.