The Glamorgan Bird Club is based in Glamorgan

Glamorgan

Glamorgan or Glamorganshire is one of the thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. It was originally an early medieval kingdom of varying boundaries known as Glywysing until taken over by the Normans as a lordship. Glamorgan is latterly represented by the three...

 in South Wales

South Wales

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...

, and is dedicated to the study and conservation of the county's avifauna

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

. 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.

The club also produces relevant publications from time to time, including "Birding in Glamorgan" (2009), a guide to over 50 of the best places in Glamorgan for bird-watching.

In association with the Gower

Gower Peninsula

Gower or the Gower Peninsula is a peninsula in south Wales, jutting from the coast into the Bristol Channel, and administratively part of the City and County of Swansea. Locally it is known as "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

Crest (heraldry)

A crest is a component of an heraldic display, so called because it stands on top of a helmet, as the crest of a jay stands on the bird's head....

 is a Little Whimbrel

Little Curlew

The Little Curlew, Numenius minutus, is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It is a very small curlew, which breeds in the far north of Siberia. It is closely related to the North American Eskimo Curlew....

 Numenius minutus, which marks the discovery of that species at Sker Point

Sker Point

Sker Point is a headland of South Wales between Port Talbot and Porthcawl.On April 23, 1947 the Samtampa, a liberty ship, was wrecked at Sker Point. Her crew of 39 perished and all eight volunteer crewmen of the Mumbles RNLI lifeboat were lost while attempting to rescue her.Sker Point is also the...

 in 1982. This was the first record for this species in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, and the second in the Western Palearctic

Palearctic

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone...

, too (the first had been in Norway in 1969).

In 2009, the club became a Registered Charity (No. 1129684).