Bird conservation charity, RSPB, celebrates the winner of its inaugural competition – the swift has been named the favourite ...

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 ...

Spoonbills are a very rare breeding bird in the UK and under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, it is illegal to disturb them.

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.

A superb fairy-wren calls to a Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo. Brood parasites like cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave them behind for the host birds to raise. David Ongley / Cornell Lab of ...

As temperatures begin to drop and the nights grow longer, autumn months are a time for cosying up indoors - but there's wildlife out there braving the cold that might need your help. And if you love ...

Experts are urging UK households to leave out two different types of fruit for birds to feed on over summer. The month of August is when many British garden birds - such as sparrows, starlings, ...

An airport said it wants assurances thousands of new homes will not create an "unacceptable" risk of aircraft being hit by ...

Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species appear to shape-shift as they elongate plumes of feathers, fan their wings, or ...