CHOG Online provides CHOG members with a growing library of online resources, that they can refer to at any time and read and listen to online. There are more than 445 items published to date. [If you are not yet a member of CHOG and would like to trial CHOG Online click here.]

Some of the items may complement or expand on articles that appear in the annual report, or relate to events organised by the CHOG Committee. But it is intended that over time, most content will be made up of contributions by the wider CHOG membership. Currently, members’ contributions make up 58% of the published items.

The content has been structured so that it can be accessed in a number of different ways – either by date of posting (most recent first), or by topic, or by type (e.g. video recordings). A summary of the topics available on CHOG Online can be viewed here: CHOG Online Topics. Take a look – if there’s something you’d be interested in learning more about, then join CHOG to get access!

What’s new?

Click here for this month’s SPECIES OF THE MONTH.

During August we added these items:

• August species of the month – Mediterranean Shearwater
• the eighth in a series of photo montages documenting ten types of habitat in Christchurch Harbour: Semi-natural Woodland Habitat
• an account of the Outdoor Meeting held at Martin Down on 14th July
• a videoclip of nesting Herring Gulls that have just spotted an Osprey
• the ninth in a series of photo montages documenting ten types of habitat in Christchurch Harbour: Mixed Woodland Habitat
• the third in a series of montages of drawings of Harbour butterflies
• a note explaining how using the the Cornell Labs Birds of the World (BOW) Phylogeny Explorer can enhance our understanding of the relationships between the Tit species that appear on the CHOG All-time Harbour Birds List
• a summary of the Hengistbury Head Butterfly Census 2025
• a photo montage of Cattle Egrets on the Salt Hurns at Hengistbury

How do I access CHOG Online?

Simply click on the link below and enter the access code*, then follow the instructions to be taken to the CHOG Online portal. Once you are at the portal, you can bookmark the page in your browser for easy future access.

Access CHOG Online here.

* The code you need is in the ‘CHOG Online’ section of ‘The Birds of Christchurch Harbour 2025’.