We record the county's birds in our Annual Report, so we need your Records. We have a stunning Gallery, so we need your photos. We discuss things on Cambirds, we do Research, we have indoor Meetings, we have a Partnership with an African bird-club and we inform you with our regular Bulletins and lots more.
You can see 'What's About?' and we urge you to report promptly interesting sightings to the County Recorder
We hope you enjoy your visit and come back soon.
Please vote for the Photo of the Year 2011
Click here to enter the competition
Next indoor meetings:
Friday 10th February, St Johns Hall, Cambridge 
Birds: a Hidden World by Peter Holden
A closer look at the behaviour of some of our common, and not so common, wild birds and other wildlife – some of the secrets that most books won’t tell you, and some that can only be told after the ‘watershed’! This talk is based on Peter’s new book with the same title.
Illustrated with my own photos, this is a wide ranging talk on British birds and some other wildlife from the point of view of how little we know about them and some of the amazing discoveries we are making about their lives –which are much more complex than we first thought. More...
Friday 9th March, St Johns Hall, Cambridge 
Annual General Meeting followed by
The Arabian Bird Atlas by Mike Jennings
An overview of Arabian birds looking at the issues that fashion bird distribution in Arabia and the atlas project which brought it all together.
Bird distribution in Arabia is a result of a number of important factors. The arid climate restricts breeding species over large areas to a few Saharo-Sindian arid land specialists, several with a nomadic tendency. A varied topography and natural habitat, which includes a wide range of geology; granite, sandstone, lave flows, limestone, not to mention sand dunes; mountain rising to 3700 m, juniper forests and mangrove swamps. More...
Cambridgeshire Bird Club now has a Facebook page.
Please take a look.
Do we have your email address?
The bird club bulletin is now available in an electronic format (pdf) that allows us to save paper and also includes enhanced content (such as colour images)
If you would like to receive your bulletin in this format instead of the paper copy please contact cbcbulletin@cambridgebirdclub.org.uk
Bob Scott Prize for Ornithological Research in Cambridgeshire
The Cambridgeshire Bird Club has established the Bob Scott Prize for Ornithological Research in Cambridgeshire. It will be awarded for ornithological field research on wild birds in Cambridgeshire. Work directly or indirectly supporting bird or wider nature conservation, as well as work undertaken by young people, would be especially welcome. The prize is open to non-professionals. The Club would particularly welcome submissions by school, college and university students (undergraduates).For more information, click here.
WILD BIRD FOOD
Members of the Cambridgeshire Bird Club can buy wild bird food at a 10% discount from Rectory Farm, Landbeach (on the A10 just over 1km N of the A14). Just show your most recent Bulletin or Annual Report as proof of membership. Just one more benefit of joining CBC.
Video site
The Cambridgeshire Bird Club now has a video blog site here.
Instructions on how to get your videos on the site are also on the page. We will not host videos due to space issues but can embed them if you sent a YouTube (or similar) link.
