Birding World
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{{Infobox magazine
| title = Birding World
| image_file = File:Birding World cover (March 2011).jpg
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| image_caption = March 2011 cover
| editor = Steve Gantlett
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| frequency = Monthly
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| category = Birdwatching
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| publisher = Bird Information Service
| founded = 1987
|lastdate = January 2014
| country = United Kingdom
| based = Cley next the Sea, Norfolk
| language = English
| website = [http://www.birdingworld.co.uk/ www.birdingworld.co.uk]
| issn = 0969-6024
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Birding World was a monthly birding magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was the magazine of the Bird Information Service, based at Cley next the Sea, Norfolk. With the publication of issue No. 26/12 in January 2014, Birding World magazine ceased publication.[http://www.birdingworld.co.uk/ www.birdingworld.co.uk Birding World]
History and profile
Originally published in 1987{{cite book|author=Caroline Taggart|title=Writer's Market 2010: Make Money Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6iqPJyUmfwC&pg=PT508|accessdate=7 August 2016|date=30 June 2010|publisher=F+W Media|isbn=978-0-7153-3529-1|page=508}} as Twitching volume 1, the magazine underwent a name-change to this name, in 1988 (also resetting its volume count back to 1).{{cite web|title=Birding World|url=http://ornithologyexchange.org/journals/index.html/_/ornithological-journals/birding-world-r107|publisher=Ornithology Exchange|accessdate=7 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907191951/http://ornithologyexchange.org/journals/index.html/_/ornithological-journals/birding-world-r107|archive-date=7 September 2014|url-status=dead}} The editor was Steve Gantlett, and the assistant editor Richard Millington.
It was aimed at birders with an interest in the occurrence and identification of rare birds in the United Kingdom and the Western Palearctic. It also covered birding-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 by Krister Mild on the identification of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers
- A number of papers on the Feas's/Zino's petrel group
- An identification paper on booted, Sykes', western olivaceous and eastern olivaceous warblers
In 2004, its circulation was estimated at 4000 copies.Wallace, D. I. M. (2004) Beguiled by Birds {{ISBN|0-7136-6535-1}} p. 138
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.birdingworld.co.uk/ Birding World]
- {{cite journal |first1=Graham |last1=Evans |url=http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/biblio/twitching/lesserscaup.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805185947/http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/biblio/twitching/lesserscaup.htm |date=April 1987 |archive-date=5 August 2012 |title=Britain's First Lesser Scaup |journal=Twitching |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=65–66 |url-status=unfit}}
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Category:Mass media in Norfolk
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