Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has declared a national 'Butterfly Emergency', with results of this summer's Big ...

A Critically Endangered California Condor was shot in Colorado earlier this year. The population in northern Arizona and ...

A West Midland Bird Club reserve, leased from Powergen, on the site of the former Hams Hall power station. The reserve lies in the valley of the River Tame, some ten miles from Birmingham city centre.

A plan to reintroduce White-tailed Eagle to Cumbria has been revealed. White-tailed Eagle was once found across Cumbria, with ...

New analysis offers an explanation for simultaneous irruptions of Crossbill and Parrot Crossbill in Europe, despite the two ...

A moth feared extinct in Britain has been rediscovered in Norfolk more than 50 years after it was last seen. Dave Jones found ...

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The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson (Princeton University Press, 2024). 328 pages, more than 50 colour and black-and-white illustrations ...

For the second time in more than 200 years, a naturally established pair of Osprey has bred in Ireland. The pair successfully ...

A new species of nightjar has been described from the Wallacea bioregion. In a paper published this year in Ibis, a team of ...

The rare and threatened Mussau Triller has been seen for the first time in 44 years after it was 'rediscovered' by birders in ...

Coastal island, joined to mainland at low tide, with small wetland reserve on adjacent mainland. If you would like to suggest a photo for this site, please email a copy to [email protected] along with ...