The BOU Avi List January 2026: 7️⃣5️⃣3️⃣ (636 species and 117 subspecies)
Most recent additions:
Species: BOOTED EAGLE - August 2025
Subspecies: East Siberian White Wagtail - June 2022
The Local Environmental Records Centre for Hampshire.
tinyurl.com/hantsbic
Journal entries from 1768-1793 of the pioneering C18th English naturalist, posted on the day of the year they were written. Currently posting 1776.
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Also see @johnclare.bsky.social
Ex-Boulmer patch birder, now in deepest Lincs.
Free online and in-field tool for your bird sightings, run by @btobirds.bsky.social Make your records work for birders and conservation science: join the community! #BirdTrack
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Birds, insects, fungi, wild flowers etc. Started getting into nature in 2021. Based in Milton Keynes.
Professional bird botherer & bug chaser (not like that), based in Dorset. Freelance ecologist / leader for Wildlife Travel #LGBTQinSTEM. Mainly birds, inverts, & plants, with the occasional arty photo. All views my own.
Wildlife travels around Britain and Ireland - birds, moths, plants, bryophytes and other things when I find the time; occasional trips abroad looking for obscure birds nobody has heard of!
Bird artist. Colour-ring reader.
It's all about being happy, and my family and nature gives me that.
Assistant Conservation Officer for Epping Forest. PhD on the effects of nitrogen pollution on insects, particularly likes butterflies and moths.
Love all wildlife especially the birds, butterflies and adders of Dartmoor where I live.
🟰🟰Cornish Birder #424, Seawatcher. Cornwall eBird Moderator. Mousehole AFC. Nikon Z8 user. “Gramps”.
Former Sussex birder, now near Inverness. Keen world, country and county lister. Also heavily into orchids, butterflies & dragonflies/damselflies.
Keen runner too.
Birder living on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire, UK. OM systems photography (OM1 with 150 -400mm) : flickr.com/photos/60144199@NO4/
PhD researcher studying the effects of agricultural land management on breeding wading birds. 🪶🌄
Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS) records and publishes information about wild birds in the county of Hampshire, England #HantsBirds
www.hos.org.uk
Postdoc in Clark lab @geneticscam.bsky.social
Segmentation, Robustness, Evolvability
Lepidoptera and Birds
#embryo2024
jewh.github.io
26. Birds | Butterflies | Moths | Dragonflies. Reserve Manager at Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR, Lincs. Freelance ecological consultant. C-permit ringer.
DPhil student at the Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford
BTO Bird Ringer. Seabird Research Assistant, Alderney Bird Observatory Spring 2025/6, Spurn Bird Observatory LTV 2023.
Haywards Heath,Sussex. Ornithologist. Scientific Committee & Bird Report editor, Sussex Ornithological Society. Trustee, Sussex Wildlife Trust.
Raptor monitoring in the south
Conservation
Ornithologist
Uppsala University webpage: https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N99-636
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Per-Alstroem-2
ornithology, birds, mammals, evolution, speciation, conservation, ecology
Wildlife illustrator & photographer
Birder in East Yorkshire 🐦
Patch total (Figham Common) = 121 (Tundra Bean)
Birder & little critter watcher now based in North Norfolk
Birding Kent, chasing migration
📍King George Park
Ecologist | Long-term Volunteer: Spurn, Bardsey & Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory
Birds and birding in Cornwall! Ornithologist & Ecologist ( director of Crecca Ecology ) , County Recorder for Cornwall Birds and C Permit ringer with North Cornwall Ringing Group .
Professional and award-winning nature writer, columnist for RSPB magazine, Bird watching and Water Life. Many books: most recent "RSPB Birding Year" (Bloomsbury), "An Insect a Day" (Batsford). Also lots of travel writing, e.g. Sri Lanka, Costa Rica.
Wildlife illustrator, photographer and invertebrate enthusiast - A Curious Bug-er from Oxfordshire. F.R.E.S. - President of Abingdon Naturalists’ Society
www.richardlewington.co.uk
Birder, Fledgemore BTO nest recorder/ringer, ecologist, artist. Birds, dormice, wildlife, music, football.
The campaign to protect Curlews from extinction. Celebrating curlews on World Curlew Day (21 April)
Think the illegal killing of birds of prey is a thing of the past? Think again! Blog by @ruthtingay.bsky.social
Birding around Oxfordshire, particular my patch of Port Meadow & sometimes twitching things nationally
Birder, Twitcher, Author of Stonechats A Guide to the Genus Saxicola. Anti hunting of any sort
blackaudibirding.blogspot.com
Evolution at the wild-domestic interface ⛰️🏙️
I study Rock Doves in the Outer Hebrides.
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UW64SScAAAAJ&hl
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William-Smith-134
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker conservation project supporting birdwatching volunteers to find & record Lesser Spots, their nests & breeding outcomes. Posts by Ken & Linda Smith, website www.woodpecker-network.org.uk
promoting the enjoyment, study and conservation of wild birds in Berkshire, UK, since 1947. #Berksbirds http://berksoc.org.uk/
Frequently birding, fascinated about bird migration.
Bird Guide and Cyprus Bird Recorder.
Pretty good at taking bad photos.
Freelance TV sport producer || Limosa obsessive L3 ❤️ || BOURC voting member || Cley Moth Obs || TG04 = the Patch || ex-Norfolk Records Committee member || Gulls & Geese👌|| Music lover: give me as much Neil Young as you like ☮️🕊️ || Don't Spook The Horse.
Young birder. Uk life list: 359 World List: 454
Cambs life list:225
Patch list (Ditton Meadows and Milton CP): 131
Cambridge United supporter
Lancashire birding; Gulls, waders and wildfowl; Finding my own; Hesketh Out Marsh #HOM, Banks Marsh & #Marshside #gulling #goosing #lancsbirding
Originally from Sheffield ⚔️ .I started my birding at a very young age in the Rivelin Valley.Later birded Hatfield Moors for many years. Now based in Scarborough .
South Herefordshire patch birder with a particular interest in visible migration, Trektellen site at Much Marcle Ridge. Also moths and butterflies #vismig #lowcarbonbirding #patchbirding
Birding (mainly) Dorset, (mainly) by bike, occasionally Hampshire if the knees hold out.
Naturalist and Hampshire birder based on Hayling Island | Ecologist / Ornithologist
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-hooper-b99097193?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
Microbiome ecology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology.
Postdoc at NIOO-KNAW
Previously: Postdoc at U. Oxford & PhD in EvoBio at U. Zurich.
Birder & bird ringing trainee. I dig Mini & cooking. He/him
Zoologist, Ornithologist and Conservationist. Likes shearwaters. Researcher at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and AEGUL; research associate @oxfordbiology.bsky.social (he/him) https://seguliverpool.wixsite.com/home/oliver-padget
Director of Nature Recovery for Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies. Naturalist, tree hugger, volunteer bird ringer, Green Runner. Personal account: opinions, puns & misidentifications are mine
Local Government ecologist, Hampshire, UK.
Essex + Wessex.
BSBI recorder, South Hampshire
Middlesex birder transitioning from Twitter (@seaninpinner). Also keen supporter & volunteer at Northwood FC
#FlywayBirding tours and conservation in The #Straits of #Gibraltar and the East Atlantic Flyway - ingloriousbustards.com
Used to DPhil at Oxford, then post-doc'd at the IfV, now an 1851/tenure-track fellow at Liverpool. Manc, birder, Liverpool FC. He/him.
Birder from Hampshire. Enjoys seawatching.
Birder living on the Isle of Wight. Happiest with binoculars and cake.
Naturalist, guide & TV presenter. Cymro 🏴
Species Survival Manager at Dorset Wildlife Trust // Bird Ringer // Rewilder // Powered by plants // Views my own 🍄 he/him
Hiking, Travelling and a keen Birder. Love the natural world and usually found outdoors!
Live in York (UK)
Keen birder and moth-man from the Suffolk coast. Most of my moth news is from Bawdsey Hall.
Keen birder and photographer based in Nottingham UK. Retired Quantity Surveyor and owner of a miniture long haired sausage dog 🌭 🐕
Birder | Professional Ornithologist
Consultant Physician. (CCT Gastroenterology/ General Medicine)
Patch birdwatcher in the New Forest.
Passionate about wildlife and the environment
Patch Birding Blog: https://newforestpatchbirding.blogspot.com/?m=1
Medical Blog: https://croseveare.com/
Britain's leading website for birders. Live sightings, breaking news and trusted content.
Ecologist, birder, entomologist, botanist and bat botherer. Born in Liverpool and returned via circuitous route. I block dickheads on sight. Compost the rich.
Birding West Bexington and Cogden, Dorset
🦜 PhD student at Durham studying avian species interactions and their impact on coexistence and range dynamics 🦆 Birder & C-permit Ringer 🐦⬛ He/Him 🦩
Birder, Twitcher & ex-scientific illustrator. Cambridge United & P’boro Panthers Speedway
For sound recordings go to https://xeno-canto.org/contributor/HNYFHZLJOD
Birder, artist, sound recordist, data scientist at BTO; One half of Alula Designs. Views my own
Birder mainly around Oxon, Glos & Cotswold Water Park I BTO S-Permit Ringer with West Oxfordshire Farmland Bird Project I eBird reviewer for Wiltshire I Moth-er VC22 I
Birder from Worcestershire now birding a windswept lump of rock in the North Atlantic.
Used to be a technician at the University of Birmingham Medical School in a former life 🇪🇺
Birding posts from Beachy Head and Eastbourne
https://beachybirder.wordpress.com/
Britain's Top Vicarious Birder.
Aberdeen Wildife DNA lab. Aniridia research.
Likes birds, stamps, ghosts, art, and wasps.
Leeds United #lufc because I was bad in a previous life.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aberdeendnalab
Self-confessed twitcher & West Midlands birder, thwarted by work, 2 kids + a wife. With a few moths, butterflies + dragonflies thrown in for good measure.
Patch birding in Oxfordshire and further afield
tmbirding.blogspot.com
A lighthearted take on trying to predict bird movements based on weather forecasts for the UK….
Birds, moffs and CPFC. Kentishman currently residing in the Kingdom of Fife.
Scientist, conservationist, naturalist, birder. Secretary of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel & ornithologist for hire. Loves all of that plus dogs, music, leftwing politics, football, Northumberland, family. He/him.
Neurodivergent 🧠 - Plant-based 🌱- Anti-fascist ✊🏼 - Hip-Hop Historian 🎤 - Peaky Birder 🦤 - BOU British Bird Species: 5️⃣3️⃣8️⃣☑️
Birder and dad from Nottinghamshire (UK) - mainly found at Collingham Pits, Besthorpe NR or Langford Lowfields.
Local patch Long Nab, North Yorkshire. Chair of Scarborough Birders. Kittiwake studies. Bird guide. Vismigger/seawatcher. Generally grumpy.
Sheffield United⚔️
Birding for 60 years in UK and across world. Should be a lot better at it. Write monthly bird round up for Walthamstow Wetlands in London on walthamstowbirders.blogspot.com Fortunate to have birded St Agnes every year since 1981
Birding, butterflies, and dragonflies.
Birder, biker , Common Swift Conservation,part time trapper of moths .
Londoner, birder, all things natural history, ex-assistant warden Portland Bird Observatory, Dorset lover, reside in Bath and big Chelsea Blue.
Patch birder on a bike (mostly) , twitch, when I can be arsed. Rotherham United and the occasional pie.
Patchbird Swinemoor, E Yorks, regular at Flamborough, Spurn, North Cave Wetlands and Tophill Low. Patch 125, E Yorks 257, UK 317 (from 2017 on return to UK). When I’m doing photography then I use Nikon Z9, otherwise it’s shaky thirdrate PhoneSkope images!
Nature, especially birds, with owls and raptors in particular. South Lincolnshire
Director & guide for Shetland Wildlife @shetlandwildlife.bsky.social | Cameraman | Orcaholic | Co-author of Princeton Nature @princetonupress.bsky.social Europe's Sea Mammals, Europe's Birds, Britain's Birds & British Birds.
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Birds, moths, butterflies
