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Dorset Bird Reports

The annual bird report is provided free of charge to members or can be purchased by non-members. Back numbers can also be purchased, along with other essential materials - see Saleshttp://dorsetbirds.co.uk/sales/

Many back numbers are also available as free downloadable pdfs from https://dorsetbirds.co.uk/publications/dorset-bird-report-pdfs/

e-Bulletins and Newsletters

Since May 2025 members receive a regular e-Bulletin by email, with links to longer articles. e-Bulletins are only available online, and only to members, so please keep us updated with any changes to your email address! Articles, however, are free for anyone to download, either from this page or from https://dorsetbirds.co.uk/publications/online-bulletin-articles/ for those associated with e-Bulletins.

e-Bulletins replace the Newsletters previously sent to members by email or by post. Back numbers of e-Bulletins and Newsletters are free to download from this page.

Articles

The Bird Club occasionally publishes stand-alone articles, available for download:

http://dorsetbirds.co.uk/publications/are-all-birdwatchers-white-and-middle-aged-or-older/

European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 – is there good news amongst the bad? by Geoff Upton April 2022

Selected articles from Dorset Bird Reports and Newsletters/E-Bulletins are also available:

The Aquatic Warbler in Dorset, by Shaun Robson (Dorset Bird Report 2022, December 2023)

Changing perspectives and shifting baselines, by Liv Cooper (now Elwood) (from Newsletter 107, August 2023)

The 1996 West Bexington South Polar Skua: A First for Britain, by Mike Morse and Ivan Lakin (Dorset Bird Report 2021, December 2022).

Yellow-legged Gulls in Dorset, by Ian Stanley (Dorset Bird Report 2020, December 2021)

Birds of the Lower Stour Valley 1978 to 2021, by George Green (from Newsletter 102, November 2021)

Poole Harbour Osprey Translocation Project, by Brittany Maxted (Dorset Bird Report 2019, December 2020)

Red Kites in Dorset, by Shaun Robson (Dorset Bird Report 2019, December 2020)

Increases in Farmland Birds in Dorset Show the Possibilities for Change: An Example of Rapid Recovery, by Mike Coleman (Dorset Bird Report 2018, June 2020).

Thirty Years of Birding at Abbotsbury Swannery, by Steve Groves (Dorset Bird Report 2017, November 2019).

A Study of Breeding Peregrine Falcon in Dorset, by Granville Pictor (from Dorset Bird Report 2015, June 2017)

Aquatic Warbler in Dorset, by Ian Lewis (Dorset Bird Report 1995)

And we're producing a series of 'how to' articles on birdwatching skills, featured here:

How to Learn Bird Song: A Beginners' Guide - by Geoff Upton (January 2026)

Visible Migration watching, by Geoff Upton (e-Bulletin September 2025)

Identifying Marsh and Willow Tit, by Nick Hull (first published on Dorset Bird Club Facebook page November 2024)

How to Look at Cormorants and Shags, by Geoff Upton (from Newsletter 108, April 2024)

How to Find Your Own Caspian Gull, by Gavin Haig (from Newsletter 104, August 2022)

Separating Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs, by Ian Lewis (first published on Dorset Bird Club Facebook page autumn 2021)

'Noc-mig' - Nocturnal Migration over Dorset and Beyond, by Paul Morton (from Newsletter 101, July 2021)

Sea-watching - Some Reflections on Birding the Waves, by Nick Whitehouse (from Newsletter 100, March 2021)

BTO Dorset Newsletters

The Winter 2023 newsletter from BTO Dorset 'Dorset News' can be downloaded here:

http://dorsetbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BTO-Dorset-Newsletter-Winter-2023-1.pdf

Older editions of Dorset News also available:

http://dorsetbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BTO_Dorset_Spring_2023_newsletter.pdf

http://dorsetbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BTO_Dorset_newsletter_January_2023-2.pdf

Newsletters

Members also receive a newsletter three times a year, either as a hard copy or as a pdf. Most members now choose to receive this as a pdf by email rather than by post.

Back numbers are available as free downloadable pdfs - see panel on this page.

Older copies can be downloaded here:

Newsletter 91 November 2017

Newsletter 90 July 2017

Newsletter 89 March 2017

Newsletter 88 November 2016

Newsletter 87 July 2016

Newsletter 86 March 2016

Newsletter 85 November 2015

Newsletter 84 July 2015

Newsletter 83 March 2015

Newsletter 82 April 2014