British birds

News and articles about British birds. natural history, folklore, trivia, facts, photos and stories.

Recent news about British birds
  • Magpies: Not guilty
  • British birds in the news in February
  • Aggressive duck sex
  • Kestrel and Barn Owl fight over vole
  • Prisoners help bird count
  • Taboos about wild birds
  • In praise of the little owl
  • Huge flock of corn buntings
  • Mull's sea eagles thriving
  • Praise for feeding birds in winter
  • Lundy Island becomes first marine conservation zone in England
  • Peregrine falcon filmed hunting at night
  • The cold snap - Orwell 1940
  • Grey squirrels don't threaten birds
  • Unusual birds in the garden
  • Winter wildlife emergency
  • Help birds through the cold
  • Starlings come home
  • RSPB say golf courses can by good for wildlife
  • Hen harriers on the brink
  • Parahawking in Wales
  • Keep your birdtables clean
  • Crinkly the swan
  • 10-year review of British birds
  • Feed the Birds Day
  • Scottish kite success
  • Sugar beet and the Pink-footed Geese
  • Birds sharing nest boxes
  • Mystery of vanishing cuckoos
  • Great year for white-tailed eagles
  • Sea eagles in Suffolk
  • Cirl buntings doing well
  • Twitch alert: Tufted Puffin in Kent
  • Bittern recovery
  • Black grouse do well
  • The 1869 Sea Birds Preservation Act
  • Success for seabirds in Shetlands
  • Swift fledgling rescue
  • Help for Cockney sparrows
  • Camera captures an egg thief at work
  • Chirpy cockney sparrows
  • Record Welsh puffin season
  • Australian swans threaten native swans
  • Swan upping today
  • Scottish corn buntings collapse
  • Joggers attacked by buzzards
  • Elderly puffins
  • Goldcrests on the rise
  • Best birdwatching locations in Britain
  • Red kites steal knickers
  • Back in the UK: Red kites
  • Peregine persecution
  • Puffins helped by technology
  • Massive fall in UK woodland birds
  • Wildlife and Sex on Hampstead Heath
  • The return of the corncrake
  • Swifts threatened
  • Golden eagle poisoned
  • Fall in Scottish seabird numbers
  • Birdwatching on the Western Front
  • Folklore about shearwaters