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 ...
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26 common British birds and how to spot them

We are fortunate to have many beautiful British birds throughout the country. Some visit our gardens, others are found only ...
Bird conservation charity, RSPB, celebrates the winner of its inaugural competition – the swift has been named the favourite ...
Juliet Vickery has received funding from the UK government through the Darwin Initiative. Viola Ross-Smith and David Noble of the British Trust for Ornithology helped write this article. The red list ...
Licenses are granted to collect and relocate English red kites to south-west Spain. A four-year project to boost the now-threatened Spanish red kite population results in three mating pairs and two ...
Robins and sparrows are two of the most common birds in British gardens, and they will both stay in the UK over the winter - ...
“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 ...
More than 50 species – including the purple heron, the southern emerald damselfly and the green-jawed tube web spider – have been on the move in the UK over the past decade as climate change takes ...