Rare Birds in Spain - As its name implies news about rare birds in
Spain, including the Siberian Blue Robin on 18th October
2000.
British
Ornithologists
Union - Keep up to date with
the official British List.
HBW - Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume
8 has just been published in 2003, you might want to keep up
to date with their progress.
www.bavarianbirds.de - Bird news from Bavaria.
Surfbirds.com - A joint venture between American and European
birders, with photos, artists sketches and articles galore.
Definitely worth a look.
FatBirder - Birding resource with extensive selection of
links, the UK counties section should come in very handy.
Euro Birdnet News - From the news here you may be able to spot the
next invasion or eruption before it reaches our shores.
Worldtwitch - Bird News from around the world.
BIRD OBSERVATORIES & RINGING
RELATED SITES
Landguard Bird Observatory - Check out the bird migration happenings at
t'other end of the Suffolk coast.
Delta
Birding - website about birding in
the South-west part of The Netherlands (only in Dutch, but
you can always use the Babelfish translator link at the
foot of this page).
Falsterbo Bird Observatory
- website of this Swedish
migration hotspot.
Heligoland
Bird Observatory - website devoted to
the birds occurring on the island of Helgoland. In German
& English.
Fair Isle
Bird Observatory - UK bird migration
news news from up north!
Portland Bird Observatory - UK
bird migration news from down south!
BTO
- The British Trust for Ornithology website.
European Colour Ringing
- want to know where a colour ringed or tagged bird
you have just seen comes from? You will almost
certainly find it here.
Photoguide to colour
ringed birds - as a compliment to the
website above a huge range of photographs of various
colour ringed birds from a wide range of the schemes in
operation.
Osprey Satellite Tracking
- Excellent site covering the introduction of
Ospreys to Rutland Water, and the subsequent movements of
these birds and some of their parents in Scotland.
OTHER BIRD CLUBS
RSPB Lowestoft & District Local
Group -
Details about the local members group of the RSPB with a
programme of talks and field trips.
Great Yarmouth Bird Club - check out the website of our neighbours 10 miles
to the north.
Southend
RSPB Members Group - If you
are visiting our neighbouring County of Essex, you may wish
to check this site out to find out where to go and what's
about.
WEATHER LINKS
Latest satellite picture of Europe - From the Weather
Channel. A huge range of
weather related news from around the world is available on
this excellent site. Highly recommended.
Spaceweather - Forecasts relating to solar storms and sunspots
and aurorae from the Spaceweather Bureau.
SPACE LINKS
Hubble Space Telescope pictures - View a selection of the best images taken by the
Hubble. Highly recommended.
NASA
photos of Earth - View the
extensive catalogue of the Office of Earth Sciences Astronaut
Photography Database to view the photos of Earth taken by NASA
astronauts since 1968.
Night vs Day -
Watch the progress of day and night around the planet plotted
on a map, at the Earth and Moon Viewer. You can customize the
view as well.
LOCAL LINKS
Waveney
District Council -
Visitor details for the local area.
Weather forecast for East Anglia - The BBC Online Weather page for East Anglia.
TRANSLATION
Babelfish
from Yahoo - For
those of us not too good at foreign languages. A very
useful website for when you come across a web page in
French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese or even
Russian, that might hold information you need. Just put
the URL in the box, or cut and paste a block of text,
click the button and it is translated for you, into pretty
good English, or even between French and German. Not 100%
accurate but you will almost certainly be able to get the
gist of it, and have a good laugh too. For instance do you
know what a Dwarf Sump Chicken is? No? It's a Baillon's
Crake translated from German to English. Perhaps you can
find better.