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, ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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

A new proposal from a group of peers could disarm the most damaging aspect of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and reduce ...

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

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

A new IUCN Green Status assessment classifies Tiger as Critically Depleted after severe declines, yet highlights what ...

Adrian Webb wins BirdGuides Photo of the Week for 20-26 October 2025 for his brilliant image of the Eastern Nightingale in ...