History
The Club was founded as the Birmingham Bird Club, by W. E. Groves and friends on 1 November 1929. The name changed to Birmingham and District Bird Club in 1945, to The Birmingham and West Midland Bird Club in 1947, and the current name was adopted in 1959.
It co-founded and still helps to manage the Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory and was instrumental in securing Brandon Marsh as a nature reserve.
A successful West Midland Bird Distribution Survey, published privately in 1951, led to the club publishing the world's first bird atlas, the Atlas of breeding birds of the West Midlands, in 1970.
Until 2010, the Club operated an information centre at Kingsbury Water Park (Warwickshire).
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