Whether you have a tiny garden or you’re looking to carve out a small space for nature, there are plenty of small wildlife garden ideas you can get your teeth stuck into this year. That’s ...

These small, noisy British birds are commonly found in parks and gardens across the UK. Thanks to their streaky brown bodies, ...

They nest later in the season than other birds, usually in tall trees. Finding food. Two species of woodpecker can be seen in British gardens, the greater spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) and ...

The small brown bird, about the size of a house sparrow, was initially described by British naturalist T. C. Jerdon in January 1862, who found it in grassy plains near Thayetmyo.

The very small reproductions of photographs seem unlikely to be so useful for purposes of identification as the authors suggest. The Pocket Book of British Birds. Richard Kearton Howard Bentham By ...

“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 ...

The UK has a strong history when it comes to recording the birds that are found in the country. This really came into its own during the Victorian Era, when the desire to collect eggs and skins ...

The update, carried out by a coalition of the UK's leading bird conservation organisations and published in the journal British Birds on Monday, follows the recent assessment of 28 seabird species.

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 ...

The UK government has tried to position itself as a world leader on this issue, but its decision to grant licences to shoot endangered bird species – even in small numbers – undermines this.