BBC Wildlife Magazine

How to have a WILD lockdown

1 SPOT NEOTROPICAL BIRDS

There’s plenty of British birdlife to keep us busy in quarantine, but for something more exotic, sit back and enjoy The Birders – a 50-minute documentary film that celebrates the dazzling birdlife of northern Colombia, and follows birder and biologist Diego Calderón Franco as he sets off on a road trip to find it. For lockdown, the film-makers have added a checklist of 100 species to identify. No binoculars required, but Cornell’s Merlin bird ID app may help with those tricky tanagers. wherenext.com/birders

2 EXPLORE THE GREAT TROSSACHS FOREST

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