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Welcome to London Birders Community Website! This is the new site for London Birders and has the information you need to know about birding in London – latest news, where to go, what’s on etc. It’s run by London Birders (see [Birders Profiles]) but anybody can contribute to it. If you want to ask a question about birding in London go to Ask a Question. Please note this site is currently under construction - in the meanwhile please visit www.londonbirders.com

News For the most recent sightings go to Latest News. Details of the other news can be found on the Noticeboard. There's also books & bins for sale on the Small Ads page, including details of the London Natural History Society Spring book sale.

PatchList 2006 Details of this competition can be found at PatchList 2006. Registration closed on 31 December 2005, but you can still keep up with what's been seen where - and by whom - on this site! To see who's ahead visit the Leaguetable.

How to use this site If you want to know where to go birding in London then look at the Local Patches page. For information about meetings and walks see the Events page. For more general birding information visit the Noticeboard or to find links to other birding sites see Web Links. If you have birding related items for sale please see the Small Ads. If you would like to add something to a page or create a new page then please visit the Help page.

First Steps

1. On this page: image_logo_url put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki.

Other optional things to do

• Control the rights of anonymous and logged in users through the Control Panel (which can be found in the toolbox on the left side of this page).
• Add the url for your wiki to the Categorized wiki list. Simply edit that page and put your wiki under the appropriate category.
• To increase the amount of space you have for uploads, add links to http://editthis.info from external sites, and go to the Link Quota Page to increase your uploads quota.
• Edit MediaWiki:Sidebar to change the navigation menu
• Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:

1. Wikipedia list of wikis
2. WikiIndex
   

• If you are feeling adventurous and know a little about web design you can edit the javascript and css to the Header to change the look of your wiki.
  • You must log as admin to do this
  • Whatever you enter in this page will be added to the html in the header after the standard style sheet, so you can override styles.
• Read the User's Guide for other usage and configuration help.
• Add your wiki to the map of wikis
• Add a message to the Feedback Page if you see anything that could be improved.