Bryan Roberts recently retired from writing the Interesting Websites page in the SOS magazine The Buzzard.  With issue number 208 (Summer 2007), I am taking over responsibility for this feature from Bryan.  The rationale for this website is to duplicate the link information from the printed article to provide a convenient means of accessing the birding-related sites covered in the magazine articles and, equally importantly, to avoid the potential for errors resulting from transcribing printed URLs to the address window of your web browser.  Coverage on this website will run parallel to the published magazine information but will also extend backwards in time to cover retrospectively the sites discussed by Bryan prior to issue 208.

I welcome any comments you may have on either the printed articles or this website.

John Arnfield (email me)

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In the following, links are listed in reverse chronologicak order so that the items associated with the most recent Buzzard article appear first.  Please note that, in a few cases, website addresses that have ceased to work have been replaced by equivalent pages.

Number 206 (Winter 2006) 

• Dee Estuary Website, http://www.deeestuary.co.uk
• All things birding, http://www.birdlinks.co.uk
• Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, http://www.wwt.org.uk
• Shropshire Ornithological Society, http://www.shropshirebirds.com 

Number 205 (Autumn 2006) 

•  The British List, http://www.bou.org.uk/recbrlst.html

Number 204 (Summer 2006) 

Various "green" issues: 

• http://www.greenchoices.org
  
• http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreenerliving/index.htm
• http://www.rspb.org.uk/green/index.asp

Number 203 (Spring 2006) 

• BBC "supergoose" site, http://www.bbc.co.uk/supergoose

Number 202 (Winter 2005)

•  Birding in Herefordshire, http://www.fatbirder.com/links_geo/europe/england_herefordshire.html

Number 201 (Autumn 2005)

• Bird Links, http://www.birdlinks.co.uk 

Prior to Autumn 2005

• Hawk and Owl Trust, http://www.hawkandowl.org
• Web search engines, http://www.ask.co.uk and http://www.google.co.uk
• Shropshire Ornithological Society, http://www.shropshirebirds.com
• British Trust for Ornithology, http://www.bto.org.uk
• Birds of Britain monthly web magazine, http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk
• Dee Estuary website, http://www.deeestuary.co.uk
• Fatbirder, http://www.fatbirder.com
• BirdOn (tips and information), http://www.birdcare.com/birdon
• BBC website section on birds, http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/birds
• Details of rare bird sightings, http://www.birdguides.com/
• Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, http://www.wwt.org.uk
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, http://www.rspb.org.uk
• Shropshire Wildlife Trust, http://www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk
• Details of the Shropshire area, http://www.shropshire-cc.gov.org