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Birds of the UK Checklist Book
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ISBN13: 9798198353541
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 23 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.37 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 23 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.37 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Short description:
A beautiful checklist to help birders track their UK life list and inspire you to get out in the field and complete it. About this book:
This is a personally curated, colorful checklist designed for recording and tracking a personal life list of bird species found in the United Kingdom.
A beautiful checklist to help birders track their UK life list and inspire you to get out in the field and complete it. About this book:
This is a personally curated, colorful checklist designed for recording and tracking a personal life list of bird species found in the United Kingdom.
It is minimalist and easy to use, and was made for everyone: nature lovers, bird photographers, beginner birders, experienced birdwatchers, or that one person you want to get into birding.
This checklist is based primarily on the British List maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee, using the most current published list available for this edition. It includes 305 regularly occurring species and 329 rarities, for a total of 634 extant species. Researched and designed by a fellow bird watcher. What's inside:
- 500+ bird species with confirmed records in the UK
- Organized by scientific taxonomy
- Space to track sightings, dates, and locations
- Seasonality and abundance indicators
- Rerities appendix Book details:
- 143 pages
- 7 x 10 inches (178 x 254 mm)
- Premium hardcover (matte finish)
- Full-colour interior
- High-quality uncoated paper Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- How to use this Checklist
- The List
- Rarities Inspiration:
As someone who was born in the 90's I grew up with Pokemon and always loved the collectible aspect of completing the Pokedex. Of course the closest thing we have to that is birding and it's one of the reasons that got me into this hobby.
Now, one of the reasons I decided to create this book was because it's something I wanted for myself and couldn't find. Most lists are just boring, simple names with a checkmark in front, I wanted something more durable and more tangible, an actual pokedex that I could keep for life.
This list in particular is very hard to complete but not impossible, and that's by design. It's supposed to be a checklist for life. It contains all of the birds that can be found in the UK, even the very rare ones as long as they have been regularly observed over the last years. Rare vagrants are excluded though and have their own section as an appendix.
I did all of the research myself, mostly by looking at official records and public databases to decide the appropriate tags and what birds to include or exclude.
I did use AI to help with the images, I know some people don't like this but I made sure that all birds are accurately depicted. I would've preferred to hire an artist if I could but drawing 300+ birds would've cost a small fortune for something I'm not expecting to profit from, and this way I have more control on the illustration style and the individual characteristics of each bird which a non-birder artist would probably miss.
All-in-all, I wanted to make this book because this is something that I looked for when I first started birding and couldn't quite find.
This checklist is based primarily on the British List maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee, using the most current published list available for this edition. It includes 305 regularly occurring species and 329 rarities, for a total of 634 extant species. Researched and designed by a fellow bird watcher. What's inside:
- 500+ bird species with confirmed records in the UK
- Organized by scientific taxonomy
- Space to track sightings, dates, and locations
- Seasonality and abundance indicators
- Rerities appendix Book details:
- 143 pages
- 7 x 10 inches (178 x 254 mm)
- Premium hardcover (matte finish)
- Full-colour interior
- High-quality uncoated paper Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- How to use this Checklist
- The List
- Rarities Inspiration:
As someone who was born in the 90's I grew up with Pokemon and always loved the collectible aspect of completing the Pokedex. Of course the closest thing we have to that is birding and it's one of the reasons that got me into this hobby.
Now, one of the reasons I decided to create this book was because it's something I wanted for myself and couldn't find. Most lists are just boring, simple names with a checkmark in front, I wanted something more durable and more tangible, an actual pokedex that I could keep for life.
This list in particular is very hard to complete but not impossible, and that's by design. It's supposed to be a checklist for life. It contains all of the birds that can be found in the UK, even the very rare ones as long as they have been regularly observed over the last years. Rare vagrants are excluded though and have their own section as an appendix.
I did all of the research myself, mostly by looking at official records and public databases to decide the appropriate tags and what birds to include or exclude.
I did use AI to help with the images, I know some people don't like this but I made sure that all birds are accurately depicted. I would've preferred to hire an artist if I could but drawing 300+ birds would've cost a small fortune for something I'm not expecting to profit from, and this way I have more control on the illustration style and the individual characteristics of each bird which a non-birder artist would probably miss.
All-in-all, I wanted to make this book because this is something that I looked for when I first started birding and couldn't quite find.
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