''Birding World'' was a monthly birding magazine published in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

. It was the magazine of the Bird Information Service, based at Cley next the Sea,

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort ...

. With the publication of issue No. 26/12 in January 2014, ''Birding World'' magazine ceased publication.

History and profile

Originally published in 1987 as ''Twitching'' volume 1, the magazine underwent a name-change to this name, in 1988 (also resetting its volume count back to 1). The editor was

Steve Gantlett Stephen J. M. Gantlett is a British birder. He lives with his wife Sue in Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. A qualified optician, SJMG retired from this profession in 1982 to become a full-time ornithologist. He was the editor of Birding World magazin ...

, and the assistant editor Richard Millington. It was aimed at birders with an interest in the occurrence and identification of rare birds in the

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 Zino's petrel (''Pterodroma madeira'') or the freira, is a species of small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, endemic to the island of Madeira. This long-winged petrel has a grey back and wings, with a dark "W" marking across the wings, and a g ...

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'' p. 138

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