Portland Bird Observatory

Portland Bird Observatory
and Field Centre

Links

Bird Observatories in Britain and Ireland

Bird Observatories Council - the national body co-ordinating and promoting the work of the British and Irish Bird Observatories

Bardsey Bird Observatory

Copeland Bird Observatory

Dungeness Bird Observatory

Fair Isle Bird Observatory

Filey Brigg Bird Observatory

Holme Bird Observatory

Languard Bird Observatory

North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory

Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust

Spurn Bird Observatory

Natural History & Local Interest Websites

Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group - includes daily bird news updates.
Dorset Bird Club

Dorset Wildlife Trust

Jurassic Coast - website of the Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Site.

Learning Stone - the website of the Portland Sculpture Trust. Sculptors and artists have supported Portland Bird Observatory for many years by taking advantage of the accommodation and field study facilities we have to offer.

Portland Bill - Portland's leisure & business facilities, landmarks, weather etc.

The Isle of Portland - Geology of the Dorset Coast - by Ian West University of Southampton.

PBO Members' Websites
Anserbirding - birding tours along with sightings updates from Slimbridge WWT by Martin McGill and James Lees.
Birdfinders - birding holidays run by PBO treasurer Vaughan Ashby.
Birding by Bike - details of Simon Woolley's book giving an account of his 2005 non-motorised Hampshire year-list attempt.
Birding the Nothe - the local patch of the Travelling Naturalist, Jamie McMillan.
Birds and Moths of Burnham-on-Sea - the local patch of Wendy and Andrew Slade.
Birds Korea - birding and conservation in Korea, compiled by Charlie Moores.
Birdwingtours - tours to Kerala, India, with Suresh Elamon.

Charlie's Bird Blog - the birding travels of Charlie Moores.
CVLbirding - Rich Andrew's Chew Valley Lake site.
Dawlish Warren - recent sightings and more from this Devon hot-spot by Kevin Rylands.
Felixstowe Birding - bird news, trip reports and more by Paul Oldfield.
Gallery of Birds - without Paul Gale's photographs and John Gale's artworks the PBO website would be - well, like Norfolk on a wet weekend.
Heysham Bird Observatory - Pete Marsh's blog with all the news from this Lancashire hotspot.
Kazakhstan Birdtours - mouth-watering trips to central Asia with Svetlana Annenkova.
My Digi-Photos - Chris Trott's digi-scoping site.
Natural History Diary - Gloucestershire-based Colin Butters' website devoted to the natural history of his home area.
Nature Portfolio Image Library - order licensed or royalty free natural history photos online from Bob Ford's attractive and accessible website.

Pete Coe Nature and Wildlife Photographer - the very best in wildlife photography from Portland resident and regular contributor to the PBO website, Peter Coe.

Spiders of Portland - Ian Pembroke's photo archive of the arachnid fauna of the island.

Sutton Bingham Reservoir - Tim Farr's website that features the natural history of this well-known site on the Somerset/Dorset border.

Two Owls Birding - birding classes and tours run by Nick and Jackie Hull.

Wildlife from Winchester - Simon Wolley and Julia Casson's website including plenty of trip reports.

PBO Sponsors' Websites

In Focus - In Focus have sponsored Portland Bird Observatory in a variety of ways in return for us allowing them to use the Obs as an occasional venue where they demonstrate and sell a wide range of optical equipment.

Portland Heights Hotel - if the accommodation we provide at Portland Bird Observatory does not suit your requirements why not try the Portland Heights Hotel.

The Fatbirder (UK) Birding Webring is a collection of quality birding web sites that are based in the United Kingdom.

Visit the webring homepage for more information, or click here to add your site to the ring.

A complete list of all the sites in the webring is available by clicking here.

previous site in ring : random site in ring : next site in ring