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All heaven in a rage: Hong Kong’s troubling wild bird market
David Callahan
  • May 9, 2020
  • 4 min

All heaven in a rage: Hong Kong’s troubling wild bird market

May 2020's issue of Birdwatch magazine carries a double-page photo spread of one of my own photographs from a visit to Hong Kong in...
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Gullquake!
David Callahan
  • Mar 10, 2020
  • 2 min

Gullquake!

My dramatic photo of a Black-billed Gull colony on the wrecked foundations of an earthquake-damaged office block in Christchurch, New...
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That time I was guest editor of Birdwatch magazine
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

That time I was guest editor of Birdwatch magazine

July 2016, in fact, with the accent on seabirds and scarce breeding birds. Read my editorial below. That's a legible version of my real...
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London in the field
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

London in the field

I started the new year writing what I consider to be the best route around East London if you want to see the maximum number of...
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Top ten sites for wader flocks
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Top ten sites for wader flocks

Last January, Birdwatch magazine published my personal choice of the 10 best sites to see huge flocks of waders, breathtakingly behaving...
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Hong Kong style
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Hong Kong style

At the beginning of November, I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days birding the New Territories of Hong Kong on a stopover en...
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A bombshell of a bird
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

A bombshell of a bird

My latest species profile in Birdwatch magazine was in October 2019, when a four-page feature on that scarce urban denizen, Black...
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Playing the spoons ...
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Playing the spoons ...

My piece on the successful return of Eurasian Spoonbill to Britain as a breeding species was published by Birdwatch magazine in July...
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A tern for the best
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

A tern for the best

I celebrated the onset of the breeding season with a long-form piece on one of the most anticipated seabird arrivals on our coasts –...
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Gull explosion!
David Callahan
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Gull explosion!

I have a photo-led piece in this month's Birdwatch magazine on a strange urban nest-site of one of the world's rarest gulls, taken on my...
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Britain's breeding heron species
David Callahan
  • Mar 20, 2019
  • 1 min

Britain's breeding heron species

I've got the front cover piece in the current issue of Birdwatch! It's on where to see all of Britain's breeding heron species (including...
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TRAVEL: the Scillies in autumn
David Callahan
  • Nov 17, 2018
  • 1 min

TRAVEL: the Scillies in autumn

I wrote a late-autumn travelogue in Birdwatch magazine about a long-awaited visit to the UK's most western point. Click on the images to...
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My reviews now available online at BirdGuides.com
David Callahan
  • Nov 17, 2018
  • 1 min

My reviews now available online at BirdGuides.com

A selection of my previously published reviews from Birdwatch magazine are now available to read .
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I have a page at medium.com
David Callahan
  • Nov 17, 2018
  • 1 min

I have a page at medium.com

I have now started to upload miscellaneous new pieces of writing at medium.com. ...
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