A widespread arrival of Taiga Bean Geese to Britain and Ireland during winter 2025-26 stood out as both remarkable and difficult to explain. Josh Jones reports.

Asiatic Cheetah is confined to a small number of arid regions in Iran, where it faces ongoing risks from habitat degradation, road collisions and declining prey populations. Long-term efforts to ...

A new BirdLife South Africa initiative is providing unprecedented insight into the movements of migratory shorebirds along the African-Eurasian Flyway.

Golden Eagle was formerly widespread in England but was driven to extinction through sustained persecution, with the last known individual – long resident in the Lake District – disappearing in 2015.

Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland (fifth edition) by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash (Princeton, 2025). ISBN: 9780691276595. Pbk, £18.99.

European Nightjar, Andalusian Hemipode, the epic spring of 1990 and the rise of AI bird ID all feature in the May 2026 issue ...

European Water Vole numbers have risen sharply across the East of England following a long-term programme to control American Mink, according to conservation organisations involved in the project. The ...

The first-ever photographs have been taken of the rare and little-known Pemba Blue Duiker on Zanzibar, confirming its continued survival.

Playing the conditions paid off for Ian Lycett, with a smart Sandwich Tern find at his local reservoir in London soon overshadowed by a far rarer goodie.

A record 87 pairs of Common Crane bred in the UK in 2025, highlighting the species' continued recovery following centuries of absence.

It has already been a strong start to 2026 for Bonaparte's Gull sightings, a trend that continued this week, when 11 were reported. Seven of these (including a first-winter and second-winter duo at ...

Efforts to restore Milk-parsley at Hornsea Mere could enable the return of Britain's largest butterfly to East Yorkshire for the first time in more than a century.