Semi-retired Biology teacher and amateur naturalist
Ever since I bought my first bins in 1967, my focus has been volunteer surveys - by which ordinary observations, almost useless on their own, become priceless when combined on the wider scale. For 43 years I worked as a survey organiser for BTO and am now simply a volunteer again. Twitching fits around my survey and ringing activities. I'm most interested in my British lists by month.
Remember a Waxwing in our Newcastle-under-Lyme garden in what must have been the 1970 invasion. Been keeping birding notes since 1974, twitching regularly from 1979 until 2019 but now almost never. Now mainly local botany, birding and invertebrate bothering in VC40 where somehow ended up as bird and joint plant recorder.
Most wanted species Linum perenne, Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoth, Polecat
Have been birding since 2008.
Librarian, classical music aficionado and intermittent birder (with surely the lowest British bird list of anyone who started in 1965)
I’ve been pan-species listing since about 2014 and am fascinated by most biological groups. I’d love to get better at identifying fungi and I’d really love to get into freshwater microscopic thingies. I’m fortunate to be the manager of a National Nature Reserve in my working life, so I do occasionally manage to escape the office and get paid to enjoy nature. I count that blessing every time!
Most wanted species I'd love to see a Wryneck. There's two flies on the nature reserve where I work that are not found elsewhere in the UK, and I've not seen them yet - Zaphne proxima and Eutaenionotum guttipennis
Starting birding when I was 6 and could hold a pair of binoculars. Also a general naturalist enjoying Butterflies, Moths, Mammals and general Insects too. Started recording moths in 2010 primarily in VC66 and also more recently in VC60 too. Being able to appreciate and enjoy being in the natural world is special. After starting to compile my list I realised my British birds needs some work after focusing on my Western Palaeacrtic life list.
Most wanted species King Eider (missed every time), Stellar Eider and Clough. Moths: December Moth (never lucky), Clifden Nonpareil and Eyed Hawkmoth. Butterflies: Purple Emperor and any fritillary (never seen them in the UK). Other insects Stag beetle and Glowworm. Mammals: Pine Martin.
That's my UK life list as much up to date as I can! I bird predominately in Shetland, but grab any chance I can to visit the rest of the UK. Always have my binos with me.
Lifelong amateur naturalist with predominantly terrestrial interests. Best with birds and bugs, worst with fish and fungi; fortunately life is full of learning opportunities.
Most wanted species Stag Beetle that constitutes a biological record - last seen as a child in Hampshire, Pallas's Warbler, Mecidea lindbergi.
Beginner birder - started in January 2007
Wildlife enthusiast, aerialist, music lover, scientist, photographer, nature girl, RSPB, Bumblebee Conservation and Wildlife Trust volunteer.
Avid young birder and twitcher located in the Shetland Isles
Still a work in progress! I have been though a lot of old notebooks and spreadsheets, but looking at my target list there are still plenty to add!
I think I am pretty much there with plants and moths which I have been working on today, 25/11/24.
Fairly casual birder though want to become a bit more dedicated, also getting into pan-listing. Especially interested in patch listing/monitoring, mostly the Stort and Lea valleys and Hatfield Forest.
My passion for natural history has been with me for as long as I can remember. My main areas of interest are invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, fungi and the marine and freshwater environments. I try to spend as much time in the field as possible and am passionate about conservation of the natural world and promoting its importance to the younger generation.
My first UK rarity was a Lesser White-fronted Goose at Slimbridge in 1973. I started a proper notebook in 1981 and moved to Canada in 2003. Now I am in Nova Scotia living on the rarity hot spot of Cape Sable Island - yay!
Author, columnist, blogger, scientist by training, former Conservation Director at RSPB, former Chair of Trustees World Land Trust.
Currently doing a year-long pan-species bioblitz of my house and garden in order to humble myself and for a book.
Most wanted species I'd quite like to see an Osprey from my garden - it seems likely and overdue to me - and a Clifden Nonpareil in my moth trap.
Founder member of BUBO, originally from Leeds, meeting the BUBO lads in Bristol. After that I did a year in Israel before returning to Leeds. I moved to Guernsey in 1998. Some people might sneer about including Channel Islands stuff on my British List but I really don't care!!
Started birding c1989, regularly twitching 1993 - 2001, then put the bins and scope down until I got back into casual birding late 2007. Been moth recording since 1998, now VC55 Leics. & Rutland CMR. Compiled first PSL list in November 2011 at 1983sp., reached 4000 on 24/09/2023. Mainly moths and other inverts these days. Will add dates/sites for more interesting species as and when I can be minded to.
I am an enthusaistic natural historian who manages a patch of wet woodland (Willow/Alder Carr) along the River Avon. I am trying to build up a detailed species list for this site.
Cornish Birdwatcher and novice pan-species lister with a passion for ring reading especially Gulls.
Zookeeper who mainly works with Birds but also various Carnivore species
Very much a beginner but love finding new things... Wish I more time but enjoy doing this casually atm.
23 Y/O from NE England, been birding all my life, but seriously since 2009/10
I took early retirement from work June 2011. I have numerous hobbies but birds and wildlife generally have always interested me. Now have time to enjoy. Mainly a Yorkshire birder but have visited Norfolk.
I have birded all over Europe, in the U.S.A. and Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, Dominican Republic, The Gambia, Cape Verde, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania and most recently Grand Cayman. I have run The Gloster Birder website since August 2000, which has grown into a monster from humble beginnings, and could easily be a full-time job.
I was born in Hampshire but most of my formative birding years were spent in Sussex, including many fruitless hours staring at the sea off Worthing. Plenty of birding done whilst otherwise studying for a degree at Bristol University. Thereafter I spent 18 months in Israel (Didric Cuckoo plus a few hundred thousand migrating raptors), and a few years back in the UK (Sussex, Bedfordshire and Berkshire), before moving to India where I spent 17 years doing a variety of things including being a full-time Dad, part-time developer of BUBO Listing, running BirdTrack for the BTO, running my own ecommerce business, working for Nature Conservation India to promote citizen science and eBird, and then running tours through Bubo Birding. Covid brought big changes unfortunately, and I'm now back in the UK working for Natural England on improving access to species data. Outside of work, I've developed Pan-species Listing and always look forward to my next birding tour to India!
Most wanted species Breeding plumaged Caspian Plover
Birder when I was very young and then stopped doing it. Started again in my twenties but other things got in the way. Only really being doing this semi-seriously since 2010 and the emphasis is still on the word 'semi' here! Interested in anyone wanting to join up for a bit of birding around the West Midlands or further occasionally as petrol prices are killing me!
A passionate young birder, twitcher & naturalist. Mainly birding in the UK.
