A British bird, once considered so delicious that it was nearly hunted to extinction 500 years ago, is making a comeback. Once widespread in the UK, cranes were heavily hunted until the Elizabethan ...

We are fortunate to have many beautiful British birds throughout the country. Some visit our gardens, others are found only ...

THIS is a handy and serviceable reference book on British birds. It includes descriptions of the characteristics, distribution, and habits of every species on the British list, and the information, ...

There are more than 600 bird species in the UK, with an estimated 83 million breeding pairs – down from 102 million half a century ago when reliable population studies began. They form an acoustic ...

“YARRELL'S British Birds”is without doubt one of the best known and most widely appreciated books on Natural History ever published in this country, and has probably done more than any other work to ...

"It was just very fortunate." Birdwatcher stunned after spotting rare species thousands of miles away from its home: 'That is ...

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 694995). Although the permits ...

FOR SOME city-dwellers there was at least one pleasing consequence of lockdown: the sharp drop in noise pollution meant that the chirps and trills of wood pigeons, sparrows, owls and finches could be ...

Dan Stowell is a co-founder and shareholder of Warblr Ltd. He receives funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for his research on bird sounds. The sound of birds is ...