About
goingbirding.co.uk is a bird news website aimed at local birders created by Berkshire birder, Marek Walford. While most bird news services concentrate on national rarities goingbirding.co.uk concentrates on what is of interest at a county level. All the news is contributed by local birders and each county is administered by a local birder, in many cases the County Recorder.
Philosophy
Our philosophy is based around three concepts.
- Free There is no charge to access this website. Running costs are covered by advertising.
- Transparency Anybody can register and submit news but each sighting is tagged with the observer's name.
- Versatility News is available by the web, email, RSS, and on mobile phones.
History
goingbirding.co.uk has spawned from the success of berksbirds.co.uk, launched in July 2000, which itself spawned from a university project in 1999 to create a website for the Norfolk Bird Club. Our aim is to provide a county bird news service for every county in the United Kingdom that needs one.