Bird Links

The county society's page on our patch.

Indoor meetings October to April plus weekend and mid-week trips.

Indoor meetings September to May, with trips and walks all year.

Indoor and outdoor meetings from September to April.

Fortnightly meetings: summer evening walks and winter talks.

Indoor talks and outdoor trips around Chester.

Indoor talks and outdoor trips around Macclesfield.

Indoor talks and outdoor trips on the Cheshire–Derbyshire border.

The county's wildlife trust, with nature reserves, events and volunteering.

RSPB reserve on the Cheshire–Wales border, with wetlands, hides and a visitor centre.

Site guide to the Mersey-side tanks and saltmarsh, a wader hot spot on big tides.

Cheshire's deepest mere and a national nature reserve, viewed from the observatory by permit.

Woods, pools and meadows beside the Manchester Ship Canal near Warrington.

Phil Woollen's birding and photography blog, with plenty of British rarities.

Hundreds of bird photos from the photo editor of CAWOS Bird News.

Recording society covering the old counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.

Indoor meetings September to April, around Leigh and Pennington Flash.

Field trips to reserves around the region for all natural-history interests.

Sightings and site information for Greater Manchester.

Bird club for Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands.

County bird club for Derbyshire, just over the Peak District border.

Reserves and news across Lancashire, Manchester and north Merseyside.

Reserves and events just south of the county border.

Reserves and events across north Wales.

Wetland centre in west Lancashire, with wild swans and geese in winter.

Big reedbed reserve near Silverdale: Bitterns, Bearded Tits and Marsh Harriers.

Wetland conservation charity with ten wetland centres across the UK.

Federation of 46 local wildlife trusts and their reserves.

Government adviser on the natural environment; looks after SSSIs, including Sandbach Flashes.

Keeps the official British List and publishes the journal Ibis.

Scotland's bird club, with branches, a bird report and the Waterston House centre.

Bird society for Wales and publisher of Birds in Wales.

Charity for birds of prey and owls.

Advice, research and nest-box guidance for Barn Owls.

Charity funding research into the decline of songbirds.

Society for seabird research and conservation.

Global partnership of bird conservation groups; the RSPB is its UK partner.

Bird sightings and news, county by county.

Assesses records of national rarities and publishes the annual rarities report.

Collates records of the UK's rarest breeding birds.

Live visible-migration and seawatch counts from sites across Europe, including the UK.

Monthly counts of waterbirds on wetlands like the Flashes.

Volunteer survey that tracks the UK's breeding bird populations.

Worldwide checklist recording from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Record any wildlife sighting for checking by county recorders.

Search UK wildlife records and maps from many recording schemes.

East Yorkshire migration hot spot with daily sightings and accommodation.

The famous Shetland observatory for migrants and rarities.

Dorset observatory at the Old Lower Light, with a daily sightings log.

Kent's shingle headland: seawatching, migrants and ringing.

Kent observatory with reserves, a field centre and accommodation.

Island observatory off the Llŷn Peninsula in north Wales.

Observatory on the Firth of Forth island, the UK's oldest.

Filey Bird Observatory & Group on the North Yorkshire coast.

Free app that identifies birds from photos and sound recordings.

Profiles of every British species: status, trends, ringing and life-history data.

Bird and wildlife A–Z with photos and sounds.

Books and recordings about bird sounds and identification.

In-depth species accounts from the Cornell Lab (subscription).

Cornell's archive of bird photos, sounds and video.

The international checklist of bird names and taxonomy.

Monthly magazine with where-to-watch guides, ID help and gear reviews.

Birding information for every UK county and every country.

Birding news, photo galleries and trip reports.

Site guides to birding places across Europe, many in the UK.

Index of birding hot spots around the world.

Birding app and community for logging sightings and joining challenges.