Steve Gantlett

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Stephen J. M. Gantlett is a British birder. He lives in Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.

He is editor of Birding World magazine. He also co-runs Birdline, a telephone information service containing news of rare birds, with Richard Millington.

Steve Gantlett is also one of Britain’s best-known twitchers. He is one of a small number of birders who have seen over 500 species in Britain.

He is a former member of the British Birds Rarities Committee.

Gantlett's specialism as an ornithologist is the advancement of bird identification. Among the areas of knowledge in which Gantlett has played a key role are the identification of orange-billed terns. He has published papers on this subject in Birding World and in British Birds. ^{[citation needed]}