Birding World

March 2011 cover
Editor	Steve Gantlett
Categories	Birdwatching
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Bird Information Service
Founded	1987
Final issue	January 2014
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	Cley next the Sea,Norfolk
Language	English
Website	www.birdingworld.co.uk
ISSN	0969-6024

Birding World was a monthlybirdingmagazine published in theUnited Kingdom. It was the magazine of the Bird Information Service, based atCley next the Sea,Norfolk. With the publication of issue No. 26/12 in January 2014,Birding World magazine ceased publication.^[1][2]

Originally published in 1987^[3] asTwitching volume 1, the magazine underwent a name-change to this name, in 1988 (also resetting its volume count back to 1).^[2] The editor wasSteve Gantlett, and the assistant editorRichard Millington.

It was aimed atbirders with an interest in the occurrence and identification of rare birds in theUnited Kingdom and theWestern Palearctic. It also coveredbirding-related material from around the globe.

The range of material published included:

• papers on bird identification, often including proposed new identification characters for difficult groups of taxa
• news articles on rare birds in Britain and elsewhere in the Western Palearctic

Significant articles published included:

• A three-part series byKrister Mild on the identification ofWestern Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers
• A number of papers on theFeas's/Zino's petrel group
• An identification paper onbooted,Sykes',western olivaceous andeastern olivaceous warblers

In 2004, its circulation was estimated at 4000 copies.^[4]

• List of journals and magazines relating to birding and ornithology

• Birding World
• Evans, Graham (April 1987)."Britain's First Lesser Scaup".Twitching.1 (3):65–66. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012.

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