A Pygmy Sperm Whale, one of the rarest cetaceans known to occur in British waters, has been found dead at Bigbury-on-Sea, ...

Reed Cormorant has bred in Egypt for the first time in more than 100 years, in an exciting development for Western Palearctic ...

Gordon Hodgson describes the discovery of Britain's second Black-winged Kite on his Gloucestershire patch in late August 2025 ...

A ringed Great Egret in Lincolnshire this summer has been confirmed as a bird from Hungary. The sighting marks the first-ever ...

Lady’s Island Lake in Co Wexford is the only place in Europe to have Roseate, Common, Arctic, Sandwich and Little Terns ...

Sixty years to the day of one of the most sensational falls of migrant birds ever to have been documented in Britain, Moss ...

With the refreshingly modern design and the latest technology both employed in its image-stabilised binoculars, Kite Optics is currently on a roll. So much so that the company has quickened its pace ...

Steve Bell wins BirdGuides Photo of the Week for 26-31 August 2025 with his picture-perfect portrait of a juvenile Lesser Yellowlegs.

Chinese scientists, backed by national policies and long-term habitat restoration, have helped boost the population of the critically endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoise to approximately 1,249 in 2023 ...

A new independent report, commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts, has for the first time investigated the cumulative impact of the UK pig and poultry sector on the wider countryside. The findings reveal ...

More than three years have passed since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for gardening, yet official documentation is still to appear and peat extraction continues. On 27 ...

Sam Viles reports on the best birds seen in Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic during the week of 26-31 August 2025. Seabirds took to the fore in an action-packed week following Hurricane ...