Birdwatch Magazine

• THE RACE TO 600 The landscape of competitive British and Irish listing has come a long way since the 1980s, as Richard Bonser explains.
• A TALE OF DECEIT David Campbell revisits the Hastings Rarities scandal, Britain’s most infamous case of ornithological fraud.
• FLYING HIGH David Callahan visits the latest Bearded Vulture reintroduction project in Spain.
• FIELD ID NOTES: VIS-MIG PASSERINES Arjun Dutta takes a look at several similarly shaped, medium-sized passerines that are moving this month.
• AN ACCIDENTAL PARADISE Exceptional rainfall in winter 2023-24 led to incredible local birding opportunities for Josh Jones.
• GREAT EXPANSION Dick Coombes reflects on the welcome addition of Great Spotted Woodpecker to Ireland’s breeding avifauna.
• NEW WORLD WONDERS How to get involved with Neotropical Birding and Conservation.