Jo's shot of the Steppe Grey Shrike in Cornwall proves that a memorable bird photo doesn't have to feature a pin-sharp subject at point-blank range. In this case, Joe has caught the shrike mid-flight ...

Uganda's only nesting colony of the Critically Endangered Rüppell's Vulture is facing destruction as charcoal burning, farming and hunting threaten Luku Central Forest Reserve in Arua District. The ...

Iceland has enjoyed a spectacular trio of North American vagrants in late October 2025, with a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, ...

A juvenile Common Cuckoo has become the latest mega vagrant to entertain birders in New York. The bird was discovered at a golf course in Suffolk County on 23 October. The find represents only the ...

Black-winged Kite has bred in Denmark and Hungary for the very first time this year, marking a significant northward advance ...

Britain supports a wide variety of species found nowhere else on Earth. But many of these are seldom celebrated and in some cases barely known. James Harding-Morris, who has just written a new book, ...

Pomarine Skua and Leach's Storm Petrel were seen at Rutland Water after Storm Benjamin in October 2025, while a wildlife ...

Thirty-five years after his last trip to the Isles of Scilly, Chris Powell's recent visit to the archipelago produced a ...

Sam Viles reports on the best birds in Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic during the week of 20-26 October 2025. A ...

The Saving Wildcats project in the Cairngorms has released 46 Scottish Wildcats in recent years, marking a major step towards restoring the species declared functionally extinct. But following Brexit, ...

Birds of Cuba (second edition) by Arturo Kirkconnell and Orlando H Garrido (Bloomsbury, 2024).

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