Rare Large Copper butterflies, extinct in Britain since the 1850s, have mysteriously appeared in Dudley's Bumble Hole and Warrens Hall nature reserves. Believed to have been bred in captivity and ...

Get to know the birders behind BirdGuides, Britain's number one birding news service. In this fourth edition of the series, we speak to Sam Viles.

A Western Reef Heron and a Little Egret have paired up and raised hybrid young in central France this summer, as the former species appears to be expanding its range northwards. The young birds were ...

Great Egret has bred in Wales for the first time, with four chicks fledging at RSPB Cymru's Cors Ddyga reserve on Anglesey.

A £13-million conservation drive in England has aided the recovery of 150 threatened species, including European Water Vole, Black Grouse and Atlantic Salmon. Led by Natural England, the programme ...

The rare Wood White butterfly has returned to Wales after decades of absence, with sightings at four sites in Powys. Once extinct in the region due to habitat loss, the species is believed to have ...

New research by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and University of East Anglia, in collaboration with other partners, has given the most comprehensive analysis of predation events at birds' ...

Pocket Guide to British Spiders by Richard Lewington (Bloomsbury, 2025). 96 pages, many colour illustrations. ISBN: 9781399406987. Pbk, £16.99. I must confess to knowing very little about the UK's ...

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White-tailed Eagle has bred in Dorset for the first time in more than 240 years, with a chick fledging from a pair introduced ...