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Great Tit Garden Bird Identification

Great Tit Garden Bird Identification

Great Tit

Great tit

The great tit (Parus major) is a widespread and common species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central and Northern Asia, and parts of North Africa where it is generally resident in any sort of woodland. It is the largest UK tit and can be recognised by its green and yellow plumage with a striking glossy black head with white cheeks and a distinctive two-syllable song.

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European Robin - Garden Bird Identification Guide

European Robin – Garden Bird Identification Guide

European robin (Erithacus rubecula)

Robin

The Robin is one of the Nation’s favourite garden birds! It is the 9th most common bird in the UK according to the Birdwatch 2016 survey, but for many people it is the most loved.

Identification

About 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 inch) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and…

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Long-tailed tit - Garden Bird Identification

Long-tailed tit – Garden Bird Identification

Long-tailed tit

(Aegithalos caudatus)

Identification

The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a common bird found throughout Europe and Asia. Related to several species in Asia, but there is only one species found in the UK and Europe; long-tailed tits are small-bodied, long-tailed birds with short legs and tiny, triangular bills

In all plumages has an extraordinarily…

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Adorable Christmas Birds - Robin Flies home

Adorable Christmas Birds – Robin Flies home

Have you seen the Waitrose Christmas advert? It features a totally adorable robin who flies home for Christmas. Watch it here:

It also promotes Waitrose’s hashtag #HomeForChristmas. The blurb says: “A courageous robin undertakes an epic journey home to Britain, where a young girl eagerly awaits his annual return #HomeForChristmas”

Well, depsite the fact that it is an advert, the filming is…

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Perfect Christmas Gifts for Bird Lovers 2016

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  #1 Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to British Birds

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‘When herons are spooked they have a habit of vomiting as a…

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The Genius of Birds - Book of the Week Seven

The Genius of Birds – Book of the Week Seven

[easyazon_link identifier=”1472114353″ locale=”UK” tag=”gbrdl-21″]Why Birds really are Genius[/easyazon_link]

This week’s bird book is an international offering and includes birds from around the globe. Jennifer Ackerman takes you on a non-stop journey into the incredible behaviour of birds from many countries.

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Bird Book of the Week - WEEK SIX

Bird Book of the Week – WEEK SIX

[easyazon_link identifier=”B00NPML0BI” locale=”UK” nw=”y” tag=”gbrdl-21″]Our Woodland Birds by Sewell, Matt (2014) Hardcover[/easyazon_link]

Week One of our Bird Book of the Week series as also a Matt Sewell book and this time we’re revisiting his phenomenal work with [easyazon_link identifier=”B00NPML0BI” locale=”UK” nw=”y” tag=”gbrdl-21″]Our Woodland Birds[/easyazon_link].

This book is filled…

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SEPTEMBER BIRDS - Nest Boxes and Berries

SEPTEMBER BIRDS – Nest Boxes and Berries

September – A Natural Harvest

September is one of the best months for birds to eat out in fields and hedgerows. The harvest season brings wild fruits, berries and seeds a plenty and many birds will leave gardens and feast in more rural settings.

While this might make your garden feel a little devoid of birds like in August, this is a great time to do some maintenance.

Some species of garden bird…

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Bird Book of the Week - WEEK FIVE

Bird Book of the Week – WEEK FIVE

[easyazon_link identifier=”0713666161″ locale=”UK” nw=”y” tag=”gbrdl-21″]The Secret Lives of Garden Birds[/easyazon_link] by Dominic Couzens

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Another fantastic garden bird book from the RSPB,…

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Bird Book of the Week - WEEK FOUR

Bird Book of the Week – WEEK FOUR

[easyazon_link identifier=”0713676787″ locale=”UK” nw=”y” tag=”gbrdl-21″]My First Book of Garden Birds (RSPB)[/easyazon_link] – by Sarah Whittley and Mike Unwin A Picture Book

We love garden birds and presumably you do to. There’s simply nothing more satisfying to know that you’ve got a healthy community of birds enjoying and feeding from your garden. Who needs approving neighbours when the proof…

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Bird Book of the Week - Week Three

Birdsong: 150 British and Irish birds and their amazing sounds

  This week we’re looking at Birdsong, a genuinely incredible bird book that not only gives you in depth information about all sorts of birds, it plays their songs too!

With 150 different birds and their calls and songs, this musical hardback book is complete with detailed photographs. Including popular birds like robins, wrens and…

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Britain's Endemic Bird

Britain’s Endemic Bird

  Unique British Birds Bird

Most islands have endemic bird species, that is, birds that exist nowhere else on Earth. New Zealand, for example, has at least 40 endemic bird species, probably more. It also has many extinct endemic species.

Even countries joined to others have a good handful of endemic species; Panama, for instance, has around 12, Ecuador has about 45 and China has upwards of 50!…

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Bird Book of the Week - WEEK TWO

Bird Book of the Week – WEEK TWO

Welcome back to the Bird Book of the Week feature! We hope you enjoyed last week’s look at Matt Sewell’s fantastic and heartwarming watercolour book Our Garden Birds. If you haven’t seen it, check it out here.

THIS WEEK [easyazon_link identifier=”1408174561″ locale=”UK” nw=”y” tag=”gbrdl-21″]RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds 2nd Edition – by Simon Harrap[/easyazon_link]

Compact and detailed,…

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Watch the Skies! Flying Ant Day!

Watch the Skies! Flying Ant Day!

It’s that time of year again and it could happen any day now.

Flying Ant Day.

You know what we mean, that one day in July or August where you go outside and suddenly have to flick a flying ant off your arm. Then another. Then untangle one from your hair and then another. And all before you’ve even walked down to the car.

Flying Ant Day occurs when the weather warms up and female ants, who have…

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Bird Book of the Week - WEEK ONE

Bird Book of the Week – WEEK ONE

Bird books increase our understanding of these wonderful garden visitors and teach us how to aid in their breeding, feeding and conservation. They also provide us with stunning photographs and illustrations of our favourite neighbourhood singers.

So from now on we’ll be running a weekly featured bird book!

From identification guides to incredible artwork, check back each Sunday to see the best…

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AUGUST BIRDS - Why is Your Garden So Quiet?

AUGUST BIRDS – Why is Your Garden So Quiet?

After a hectic spring in the garden with birds bringing up offspring and baby birds cheeping wildly on the lawn, it can be a shock to look out the window in August and see…well…not much really.

Where do all the birds go?

August is really a rest month for garden birds.

A time when their young are fit and healthy and the adults can rest and renew their feathers. For this reason, when you do see…

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