New and Old

New

• Specially commissioned paintings of a Bird of the Year, the Redpoll, which features on the cover and throughout the book.

• Printed in four-colour throughout.

• Pagination increased to 512 pages.

• Entries for 737 reserves (c.350 more than in 2025), including, for the first time, reserves in Isles of Scilly, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Herefordshire and Northern Ireland.

• Checklist arranged in AviList v25 sequence

• Diary doubled in length and combined with sunrise/set a tide times. Three new sunrise/set locations.

• A Gallery showing examples of the work of wildlife artists.

• Me, Neil Stratton, once a zoologist, then a translator, now the editor.

Old

• County by county contact details for key individuals and organizations.

• Checklist of all species in categories A-C of the British List.

• Reviews by James Lowen and Gordon Hamlett

• Price—it’s still £24 including postage