The publications We had a fantastic response to our for contributions for a special issue of Bird Study, documenting and exploring the impacts of the unprecedented recent outbreaks of Highly ...

Garden Warbler is one of Britain's most nondescript birds earning it the true moniker of little brown job.A warbler of dense scrub understorey and woodland edge, the Garden Warbler is more often ...

A rare (less than annual) visitor from its Arctic breeding grounds, the Snowy Owl is probably best known to many as 'Hedwig' from the Harry Potter films.A celebrated pair bred for eight years on the ...

A quintessential sound of the seaside, the beautiful pearly-grey backed and pink-legged Herring Gull is perhaps one of our most familiar. The Herring Gull feeds mainly on marine vertebrates and ...

This is the most marine of our breeding birds and a difficult species to see, visiting its underground nests at night and spending the rest of the time at sea. Leach's Petrel has a more restricted ...

Lynx have had a long-term project to produce an exhaustive guide to the birds of the world. It started out with the 17 volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (1992-2013) which has family ...

With its striking black, white and red plumage, the Great Spotted Woodpecker's characteristic drumming display can be heard in woodlands across all but the most northerly regions of Britain. The ...

The two tone corvid, the Hooded Crow or 'hoodie' was classified by the British Ornithologists' Union as a distinct species in 2002.The Hooded Crow is found in the north and north-west of the UK, where ...

The Yellow Wagtail is a summer visitor, breeding primarily in southern and eastern Britain.This is a strongly migratory species, wintering in trans-Saharan Africa and returning from early April to ...

Cheeping flocks of House Sparrow once tumbled from untidy nests and wallowed in urban dust baths. Now the species is in decline and has been on the UK Red List since 2002. Colonial nesters, the male ...

More streaked than spotted, this small grey-brown, long-winged flycatcher is a dashing bird of woodland, parks and gardens.The Spotted Flycatcher is amongst the last of our summer visitors to arrive, ...

The Red Kite was persecuted to the point of extinction in Britain, just about hanging on in Wales, but a late 20th century reintroduction programme has transformed the fortunes of this species.With ...