It's tricky enough to see a Great Grey Shrike these days, let alone take an image as superb as Lee Fuller's, which makes him a worthy Photo of the Week winner.

A Liberal Democrats MP has labelled White-tailed Eagle a "huge threat to animal welfare" in response to discussions about restoring the species to Cumbria.

Despite world-class data on the UK's declining wildlife being available, Mark Avery feels that government officials no longer take the science seriously.

A Tufted Puffin has been photographed at Grand Colombier, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, marking the first record in that French territory and contributing to a growing series of Atlantic-occurring birds.

Birders have achieved a major milestone with the first known photographs of Vella Lavella Monarch, captured in the Solomon Islands in July 2025. Until now one of the few bird species never documented ...

The number of butterflies at risk of extinction across Europe has increased significantly in the past 15 years, a new assessment has warned. Across the continent, 65 out of 442 assessed species are ...

New research shows that Spotted Flycatchers are increasingly overwintering around the Mediterranean rather than migrating to Africa, as Europe's milder winters reshape bird migration patterns. Using ...

The British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) has appointed skilled rarity-finder Richard Patient as a voting member following the retirement of David Fairhurst. Cambridgeshire-based and widely known in ...

A new record count of White-headed Duck has been made in Bulgaria. No fewer than 4,603 individuals were seen as part of regular monitoring at Lake Burgas on 25 October. Lake Burgas is the main ...

The number of sick, dying or dead birds being reported has been increasing in recent weeks, according to the British Trust for Ornithology, with Whooper Swans particularly affected.

A new study on European waterbirds and seabirds shows that the decline of 170 species began well before the 1970s, revealing widespread shifting-baseline syndrome. At least 40% of species were already ...

The latest Rare Breeding Birds Panel report has revealed that, in 2023, Hoopoe and Temminck's Stint bred in the UK for the first time since the 1990s, alongside record totals for several expanding ...