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 ...

You also may have noticed on cold mornings that our wild birds look a little rounder and fluffier than usual. By fluffing up their feathers they create small pockets of air close to their skin. Once ...

Bird populations in the U.K. continue to freefall as the government moves further away from achieving its own targets to protect nature. Between 2015 and 2020 almost half of all bird species declined, ...

"Like great crested grebes, they have an elaborate courtship display involving pairs meeting breast-to-breast and rising from ...

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has announced that the annual Big Farmland Bird Count will take place from Friday, February 6 to Sunday, February 22. Since its inception in 2014, this ...

Scientists have embarked on a one-year, £1.5 million research project to combat the highly pathogenic strain of bird flu wreaking havoc on UK seabirds and heaping pressure on poultry farming. With ...

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 acoustic ...

These prompted police investigations in Dorset, which ended after tests on the bird were found to be “inconclusive”, and on ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The assessment used data collected on 546 bird species to estimate population sizes and trends throughout Europe.

More and more streets across the country are being named after bird species, new research has found. A new study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) discovered a big increase in ...