BBC Wildlife - UK (2020-05)

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Alamy; painting: Rachel Lockwood; Natterer's bat: Nature Photographers Ltd/Alamynaturepl.com; Trossachs: Westend61 GmbH/Alamy; kestrel: Lee Hudson/Alamy; fox: Jane Gould/Sparkling violetear: Julian Manrique/ProColombia/WhereNext.com; redpolls: Kim Taylor/

1 SPOT NEOTROPICAL BIRDS

There’s plenty of British birdlife to keep us busy in quarantine,

but for something more exotic, sit back and enjoy The Birders

• a 50-minute documentary film that celebrates the dazzling
  birdlife of northern Colombia, and follows birder and biologist
  Diego Calderón Franco as he sets o on a road trip to find it. For
  lockdown, the film-makers have added a checklist of 100 species
  to identify. No binoculars required, but Cornell’s Merlin bird ID app
  may help with those tricky tanagers. wherenext.com/birders

There are all manner

of inventive ideas

coming out of the

woodwork to keep

us connected to

nature during

COVID19. Here

are just a few to

get you started...

By Sarah McPherson

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