Noise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found. Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to…
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‘The Bermuda triangle for birds’: Hen harriers face threat of grouse season
The sweeping edge of the Pennines at Geltsdale is a cathedral for birdsong on a still spring evening. Everything from thrushes to curlew are calling…
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The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep. In…
View More ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern EnglandMore than 400,000 songbirds killed by organised crime in Cyprus
More than 400,000 songbirds were trapped and killed in Cyprus last autumn as part of a recent increase in wildlife crime, according to a new…
View More More than 400,000 songbirds killed by organised crime in Cyprus‘Total immersive obsession’: meet the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland
One of Seán Ronayne’s earliest memories is walking in the countryside near his home with his father. “I cried a lot as a child and…
View More ‘Total immersive obsession’: meet the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland‘It’s soul destroying to find nests have failed’: inside the battle against Scotland’s falcon thieves
George Smith has been tracking the peregrine falcons of south Scotland since 1984. His day job is working in maintenance, but every evening and weekend…
View More ‘It’s soul destroying to find nests have failed’: inside the battle against Scotland’s falcon thievesRoman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 years
It was a wonderful find as it was, a cache of 1,700-year-old speckled chicken eggs discovered in a Roman pit during a dig in Buckinghamshire.…
View More Roman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 yearsFeeding frenzies and resurgent glowworms among UK wildlife highlights in 2023
Spectacular feeding frenzies of Atlantic bluefin tuna, surging numbers of glowworms, and a record-breaking breeding season for pied flycatchers are among the British wildlife highlights…
View More Feeding frenzies and resurgent glowworms among UK wildlife highlights in 2023Young country diary: Always follow the countryside code | Edith
Recently I went on a school trip and learned about my favourite thing, which is the countryside code. First, we were taken to a big…
View More Young country diary: Always follow the countryside code | EdithA celebration of birds in Lego and ink – in pictures
Roy Scholten has been interested in birds ever since he can remember. In his 50 Birds series, the Netherlands-based artist and printmaker has created handmade…
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