The world's smallest transmitter has helped discover a previously unknown breeding ground of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Thanks to the installation of a tiny solar satellite ...

Located at a continental crossroads, the Middle East has long attracted visiting birders, despite parts of the region being in a seemingly perennial state of unrest. For the Western Palearctic birder, ...

One of the longest and most unusual migrations recorded in a Humpback Whale has sparked intrigued among scientists. In 2013 and again in 2017, the animal was noted in the Pacific Ocean off Colombia – ...

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is calling all experienced birders to help monitor overwintering populations of gulls in the UK. The last Winter Gull Survey (WinGS) of this season is 19 ...

Some of the Eurasian Curlews released on Dartmoor have been tracked migrating to wintering grounds in Portugal and Spain. Small numbers of the declining wader have been released at Dartmoor in recent ...

The UK Government has published a new assessment of the threats facing UK food security. The report states that "long-term decline in the UK's natural capital is a pressing risk to UK food production" ...

Moorland of "exceptional ecological importance" has been added to a mountain nature reserve in the Isle of Man. The purchase of new land will result in a 62% extension of Dalby Mountain NR. Manx ...

A pair of Eurasian Beavers has been released at a site in the South Downs NP in Hampshire. The mammals were released near Petersfield on Monday 9 December. Farmer William Atkinson described the ...

Northumberland Wildlife Trust (NWT) is working to create more habitat suitable for breeding Eurasian Bittern in the hope that the species nests in the county. NWT said that bitterns have overwintered ...

You can now read the January 2025 issue of Birdwatch as either a digital download or paper magazine. The paper magazine is available in the shops from Thursday [26 ...

A new Danish record count of Caspian Gull has recently been made, with no fewer than 288 birds seen at Fanø Beach near Esbjerg. The birds were seen among a huge number of gulls feeding on washed-up ...

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