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Birding culture: how the hobby argues, and who does the arguing
Birdwatching as a culture rather than as a set of species: what birders argue about, how lists and records acquire their weight, and the organisations and individuals who set the tone. These are the pages about the hobby itself.
Notesshort entries, not full articles
- The Biggest Twitch: a world record year, by the people who did it
Ruth Miller and Alan Davies spent 2008 chasing a world year list across 27 countries, beat a record that had stood since 1989, and finished on 4,341 species.
- Conference Calls, December 2011
An edition of the Conference Calls series, recorded on 2 December 2011.
- Conference Calls, September 2011: listing, and the panel format
An edition of the Conference Calls series from 10 September 2011, which took in bird listing and the services birders keep their lists on.
- The Grumpy Birder: Bo Beolens on what irritates birders
Bo Beolens, the Fatbirder, on the things about birdwatching that are worth complaining about, in a long-running column.
- Jeff Gordon on the American Birding Association
A membership organisation founded in 1969 and widely written off by 2010, and its new president on what it was for and whether it still had a role.