A family holiday to France allowed our columnist to reflect on vacations from yesteryear, ponder the pros and cons of ...

Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct after no breeding records since 2015. Climate change, declining prey and ...

The Labour Government has watered down Biodiversity Net Gain, going against its pledge to ensure that development promotes nature recovery.

A Twite captive-breeding project in Staffordshire has raised young birds in captivity and is evaluating potential release sites in England for 2026 to bolster the rapidly declining breeding population ...

After a small number of Raso Larks were translocated to Santa Luzia in 2018, the population has grown to as many as 1,000 individuals.

Newly published research shows that woodpeckers use their whole bodies, and even their breathing, to turn themselves into living hammers when drilling into wood, co-ordinating muscles from beak to ...

Grazing by Dartmoor ponies at Bellever Moor and Meadows reserve in Devon has helped revive rare heathland birds, with new breeding records of Tree Pipit, Whinchat, Eurasian Skylark and other Red- and ...

New research reveals that low-traffic roads in Iceland reduce breeding bird abundance by up to 20% within 200 m of the road edge, with Whimbrel, Golden Plover, Dunlin and Meadow Pipit being the ...

The BirdGuides and Birdwatch team would like to extend our thanks to all of you for your support throughout the year. Your contributions, be it via sightings, articles, photos or comments, are as ...

A Bearded Vulture rescued in the French Alps in October has proved to be the oldest of its species ever recorded in the wild.