Glamorgan Bird Club

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The Glamorgan Bird Club is based in Glamorgan in South Wales, and is dedicated to the study and conservation of the county's avifauna. Membership ranges from beginners and back-garden birdwatchers to those who are professionally involved in conservation. Its common interest is the enjoyment of birds.

A full program of events is run annually, with indoor meetings on a wide range of subjects and outdoor meetings led by experienced birdwatchers to a number of locations both locally and further afield.

Club members get a quarterly newsletter, giving up-to-date news and information. Each year a comprehensive report, free to members, on the status of birds in the region is published. Birdwatchers throughout the area submit reports to the County Recorder. Overtime, an invaluable database of the region's bird life is accumulating. In addition, it operates a telephone information service that lets members know 'what's about'.

In association with the Gower Ornithological Society, it runs a website, which includes a sightings page and a forum where members discuss topics of interest locally.

The club's crest is that of a Little Whimbrel Numenius minutus, which marks the discovery of that species at Sker Point in 1982. This was the first record for this species in the United Kingdom, and the second in the Western Palearctic, too (the first had been in Norway in 1969).