Bird Watching News Archive

Reports from a number of RSPB Scotland reeves have indicated poor breeding performances for the UK's seabird colonies.... Read more

Newly published results from the British Trust for Ornithology’s Garden Bird Feeding Survey (GBFS) show that the number of species seen in gardens.... Read more

Rutland Osprey Mystery solved - Bolivia's Evo Morales scraps Amazon road project - Javan Rhino extinct in Vietnam.... Read more

Kind-hearted knitters have been creating wooly jumpers for penguins affected by the oil spill in New Zealand....Read more

A unique study has revealed that British garden birds have distinct preferences when it comes to the food put out for them....Read more

The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced a grant of £340,000 for a project by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to conserve UK bumblebees.... Read more

A BBC documentary team has captured "criminal" behaviour while filming an Adelie penguin colony on Ross Island, Antarctica.... Read more

Wildlife in Morecambe Bay is set for a boost as the RSPB is stepping up its UK-wide landscape conservation programme Futurescapes.... Read more

Kingfishers were seen by nearly two-thirds of wildlife-watchers in a new survey, despite reported sharp declines during the last two harsh winters... Read more

A peregrine falcon was captured on film during a football match between Leicester City and Derby County on Saturday.... Read more

The owner of a pet shop in thoroughly landlocked Leicestershire turned her expertise to caring for a very unusual visitor.... Read more

Birds in the north of England are faring better than their soft southerner counterparts according to new figures... Read more

A couple from the Isle of Mull have taken the title of the UK’s most wildlife-friendly farmers, after a record number of people voted.... Read more

Bird tour leader David Hoddinott from Rockjumper Tours found a lark of the genus Heteromirafra in north-east Ethiopia, which will undoubtedly be significant...Read more

Police in Devon are appealing for information after four goshawks and one buzzard were found dead in woodland to the west of Exeter....Read more

Spoonbills have bred for the second successive year at Holkham NNR, Norfolk, fledging 14 young. ....Read more

Over 1,000 pink-footed geese were recorded at RSPB Scotland’s Loch of Strathbeg nature reserve in Aberdeenshire over the weekend....Read more

Willow Tits and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers have officially become so scarce in the UK that their numbers will be monitored by a special panel of experts....Read more

Five hundred captive-bred Sand Lizards have been released at seven sites in England and Wales as part of a long-term....Read more

We haven't had the best summer this year, but there was one thing that helped to brighten the days - Swifts.... Read more

Young wildlife lovers are to help the RSPB kit out ‘bird of prey detectives’ with a brand new fundraising appeal.... Read more

When it comes to forming bird partnerships, personality goes a long way.... Read more

British birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts can help preserve one of the world’s last great wildernesses, say Ecuador’s tourism chiefs..... Read more

Conservationists are calling on ministers to rethink a new round oil and gas exploration licences – some of which are within a few miles of sensitive seabird colonies....Read more

Observations of Wildlife, a collection of some of the finest art of Sir Peter Scott, founder of the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust (WWT), has been released....Read more

The leak at Shell’s Gannet Alpha production platform, 100 miles off Aberdeen is already the worst North Sea oil leak in more than 10 years....Read more

Leaving small patches of Common Ryegrass to go to seed could help farmland birds such as Yellowhammers and Reed Buntings survive the winter....Read more

A carnivorous plant at a garden nursery in Somerset has ‘eaten’ a Great Tit, only the second time such an occurrence has ever been recorded....Read more

Scientists monitoring wildlife off Cornwall recorded “staggering” numbers of birds and marine mammals during July....Read more

Birdwatchers are being urged to report sightings of garden birds riddled with lesions, after scientists revealed that avian pox is spreading across the UK....Read more

One of the Osprey chicks from south Scotland has gone missing, and an appeal has been put out to the public to report if the bird has been sighted.... Read more

A pair of Icelandic Whooper Swans, dubbed Romeo and Julietta, have successfully bred in Norfolk – the first recorded breeding in the county since 1928.... Read more

Three Osprey chicks born at the Cors Dyfi nature reserve in Mid-Wales have been fitted with satellite trackers, to follow their flight to Africa.... Read more

German technology company Festo have developed an ultra-light self-propelling robot bird, modelled on a Herring Gull....Read more

A city council is cracking down on people feeding pigeons – warning they could be hit with an £80 fine....Read more

A new project is to tackle the worrying decline in Ring Ouzel numbers on Dartmoor....Read more

Evidence about the illegal trapping and killing of birds presented at the European Conference on Illegal Killing of Birds in Larnaka....Read more

You can find the UKBS reports for North Lancashire and West Glamorgan here....Read more

The opening of a new wetlands area near Glasgow is a bit of a whisky business. Read more

Tagged Cuckoos have set off from their British breeding grounds to fly back to Africa. That is, they’ve all set off apart from one.... Read more

The final cut-off point for fieldwork for the BTO’s Bird Atlas 2007-11 is approaching, and volunteers across Britain and Ireland are being urged to help.... Read more

An astonishing 17 Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks have hatched as part of a WWT-led project to raise the extremely rare waders in captivity... Read more

The state of our riverbanks – and the birdlife they support – is to be examined in a major new survey.... Read more

One committed birdwatcher is preparing to go to extraordinary personal lengths to raise £10,000.... Read more

Seabirds in Scotland are foraging much further afield than previously thought, according to the initial findings of a ground-breaking project that tracks the birds using ‘sat-nav’ technology.... Read more

Satellite tags have been fitted to two osprey chicks hatched this spring at the famous RSPB Loch Garten Osprey Centre.... Read more

When we think of hummingbirds, we invariably think of a tiny bird with impossibly fast wing beats dipping its long bill into the heart of a flower to extract the nectar.... Read more

Birds use grammar and syntax in their songs, according to new research from Japan. Although many animals, including dogs and apes, are able to recognize human words for individual objects.... Read more

The RSPB is embarking on a rat eradication expedition to Henderson Island — a UK Overseas Territory in the South Pacific and one of the remotest islands on earth.... Read more

New research on Magpies in South Korea has confirmed previous findings that some birds can recognize individual humans.... Read more

The amazing twisting, rolling, high-speed flight of a Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) is almost impossible to appreciate, even from a hide that’s right next to the nesting colony. That’s why the new hi-tech feature at WWT London Wetland Centre at Barnes is so compelling.... Read more

BirdLife Malta have just announced the dates for Raptor Camp 2011, and are calling for international volunteers to join locals in countering the killing of protected birds in Malta this autumn. .... Read more

A nature reserve that could play a key role in saving one of England’s most threatened butterflies has opened.... Read more