Mallards are among the most abundant and widespread duck species in the world, yet little attention has been paid to date to their role in spreading plant seeds...
Potter Heigham Marshes, Norfolk, 2017
Waders circle in front of Martham church, east Norfolk
Passage waders, they’re hard to beat aren't they? I grew up...
Author: Robert Lambert
Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Nottingham
My Rare Bird Alert pager bleeped insistently at precisely 2...
Do you like wildlife? What do you do to conserve it? Maybe you’re a member of a charity, the RSPB, Buglife, or the Mammal Society for instance. Maybe you dedica...
These days science is all over bird migration. We watch our screens avidly waiting for the next ping to appear on a Google map as a satellite-tracked individual...
Operation Wallacea is a network of academics from European and North American universities, who design and implement biodiversity and conservation management re...
A new year dawns, and after glancing back on 2016, most birders will have thought about what their targets are for the coming year…increase their life list, yea...
James Lowen and Yoav Perlman snapping a Firecrest in James' garden
If there are two things we know about birders it’s that (a) they love a challenge, and (b...
Among its many other claims to fame, the Amazon rainforest contains more than 1,500 bird species. Around a quarter of them are found nowhere else on Earth. Many...
