We provide a 365 day per year Text Messaging Service!

We provide up to the minute news on all Megas, National Rarities, Sub-rarities & scarcities as soon as we hear about them.  Updates on rarer vagrants (BBRC Rarities) will feature as and when they come in, and we will endeavour to keep you updated on scarce migrants (e.g. Red-backed Shrike, Pectoral Sandpiper, etc.) on a less frequent but still regular basis throughout the day.
 
To subscribe to this service you must have an Orange mobile telephone and need to be a BirdNet member. BirdNet Membership costs £35 yearly. (For membership benefits see the Membership Services page)

The cost of the phone service is £59 and this, like the BirdNet Membership, is an annual fee. It is cheaper than our pager service but as stated before, the information provided will be limited to the main birds of the day and will not include all our national information. This is a total cost of £94.00 per year which can be paid monthly (£9.00) or quarterly (£27.00) and you can pay by credit card or by direct debit.

You will note that our service has a flat-rate fee of £59 for the whole year, with no extra charges for the text messages sent to your phone and there is no limit to the number of messages you can receive.
 
You can design it to suit your needs for the information you want to receive and the areas you want to receive it from e.g. If you bird largely in the northeast and have Northumberland, Durham Cleveland and Yorkshire as your selected counties and go away to Cornwall for a holiday, you can change your news requirements with a single simple phone call to our office. You can also easily suspend the service in the same way should you go abroad.
Mobile telephone companies sometimes have trouble with this type of service and if the service ceases a refund will be provided. The BirdNet Membership is non-refundable as you will already have been provided with the Members-only phone number and access to the backup services.

We can supply new Orange BirdNet text enabled mobile phones for £29.99 complete. We can also supply Orange pay-as-you-go SIM cards and unique aerial boosters.

For more information or to receive one of our information packs, please ring the BirdNet Office on  01623-511679 and leave your details with Dag, Bryan or Jim.