Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry HusseyThis summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early May to early June 2024.Headlines Remarkably, this summary includes three putative additions to the respective British and Irish Lists, with a Booted Eagle in Cornwall, an Indian Golden Oriole in Northumberland and a Yellow-crowned Night Heron in Co. Mayo.

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july-24-cover.png Front-cover photograph: Wryneck Jynx torquilla, Spurn, Yorkshire, August 2022. Dave Stewart 346 BB eye: AI-generated images and their impact on birding Stephen Menzie353 News and comment Maddy Hine and Russ Malin358 Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2022Part 1: non-passerines Steve White and Chris Kehoe385 Bitterns: booming, or boom and bust?

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01.07.2024

AI-generated images and their impact on birding | British Birds

All but one of the images in this article have been generated by, manipulated by or edited using AI.Whether we like it or not, AI is everywhere these days – from (mis)predicting what you were trying to type in a text on your smart phone to assisting doctors with detecting cancerous masses on scans. It has even made its way into birding. One rather subtle use is enhancing

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01.07.2024

Bitterns: booming, or boom and bust? | British Birds

Abstract Action taken since the mid 1990s to prevent the extinction and then bring about the recovery of the UK Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris population might reasonably be regarded as a huge success: there were some 233 booming males in 2023, the highest number ever recorded. But Bitterns are closely associated with reedbeds, a habitat prone to rapid succession to

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