- Review of the year
- Systematic list of the year's sightings, including WeBS counts
- First and last dates of migrants
- Bird Ringing Report for 1998
- The 'Amwell' Bittern
- BTO breeding censuses 1998
- BTO and Herts Bird Club Survey of Breeding Lapwings in 1998
- Crossbills in Hertfordshire ? winter 1997 into 1998
Recent News
Conference highlights varying fortunes of wildfowl and wetland birds in Herts
The 2024 Hertfordshire Bird Conference drew a capacity audience at Affinity Water’s headquarters in Hatfield on Sat 2nd March 2024. The theme was wetlands and especially gravel pits with talks by Graham White on the fortunes of waterbirds on the restored gravel pits of the Colne Valley and a talk by Herts. Bird Club Chair, Rupert Evershed, on the birds of Stanborough Gravel Pits.
This report includes links to videos allowing those who missed the conference to catch-up with the main presentations.
Lecturer explains how beavers can bring benefits for wildlife and humans
Bringing Eurasian Beavers to an estate in Essex has delivered improvements in biodiversity while helping prevent flooding in a nearby village.
The positive consequences of reintroducing a species that became extinct in Britain in the late 18th century were described by Sarah Brockless, ecologist at the Spains Hall Estate, when she gave the Gerald Salisbury Memorial Lecture in Welwyn Civic Centre on Wednesday 28 February.
Photo: Eurasian Beaver at Spains Hall Estate © Russell Savory
New and improved website for Herts moths
Hertfordshire and Middlesex Moth Group has launched a new and much-improved website.
The upgrade – funded by the HNHS – creates an impressive online resource for finding, identifying and recording moths in the two Vice-Counties.
Information about all moth species that have been reliably recorded – both 'macro' and 'micro' – is combined with photographs (where available) and information on identification and separating similar species.