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 ...

We'll take a walk around RSPB Marwick Head taking in all the sights, sounds (and smells!) of our amazing seabirds. Learn more about identifying them on their colonies, on the sea, and in flight. We'll ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our smallest owl, the Little Owl was introduced from Europe in the late 1800s, subsequently colonising England and parts of Wales. This is a sedentary species, remaining in the same place summer and ...

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 ...

This is a colourful little bird, and a familiar garden favourite. It is also common in woodland, hedgerows, parks and gardens.Blue Tits have distinctive blue-green and yellow plumage and a blue cap.

This small hirundine is a familiar bird due to its habit of nesting in small colonies under the eaves of our homes.Migrating to the UK & Ireland in early spring, House Martins construct nest cups from ...

Only separate publications which cover the entire county and provide more or less comprehensive detail (as it was known) on all birds in the county have (mostly) been listed. Many more works have been ...

The latest list includes all species - 628 as at 14 June 2022 - recorded in a wild, or apparently wild, state in Britain, as recognised by the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU). See the BOU's latest ...

Compare this high level of parental care with that of the Purple Sandpiper - a diminutive wader that visits our rocky shorelines in winter. Purple Sandpipers breed in the high Arctic and, remarkably, ...