Go to article Plans to bring back the eggs of wild cranes for a project to re-introduce the birds to Somerset have been hit by the air-travel chaos caused by Iceland’s volcanic activity.

Go to article The first recorded breeding of Marsh Harriers in Northumberland for 130 years has led to a community project being set up to encourage local people to volunteer to watch them.

Go to article A new policy from the British Government will provide a huge boost to heathland habitats and their wildlife, says the RSPB.

Go to article British Waterways’ annual wildlife survey is focusing on the Kingfisher in a bid to find out how it has fared during Britain’s severe winter weather.

Go to article A nationwide plea for swift sightings has revealed the critical role that Britain’s householders play in the future of this declining species. Almost all swifts recorded were found nesting on buildings and over three quarters of them (77%), found nesting in houses.

Go to article Swallows which eat a healthy diet are able to reproduce more successfully, according to research which studied the nutritional status of birds during the gruelling breeding season.

Go to article A Waxwing has returned to a Scottish garden for the second winter running, identified by colour rings that were attached to it last winter, one of very few records of such a return to Britain.

Go to article Britain’s biggest databank of bird records reached a milestone this last week as the British Trust for Ornithology collected its 100 millionth observation, which was submitted to its BirdTrack survey.

Go to article The future of the Critically Endangered Siberian Crane is looking brighter thanks to an international effort by China, Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia, four countries along the bird's dramatic migratory routes.

Go to article Migrating birds which have good fat reserves make shorter stops to feed during their long journeys than thin birds, which have to stay and replenish their energy stores, says recent research.

Go to article Winter wetland bird numbers have undergone some startling changes over the last decade according to a new report that looks at the fluctuating fortunes of many visitors to Britain.

Go to article The Portuguese Government has finally started building a military radar on top of Pico do Areeiro.

Go to article The RSPB has presented its largest ever petition to the UK Government demanding an end to the illegal killing of birds of prey in Britain.

Go to article With an estimated two million seabirds deaths in waters around Europe and the Atlantic in the last decade, due the European fishing industry, the RSPB and BirdLife International is calling for the slaughter to stop.

Go to article The latest results from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) show Britain’s birds are flooding into gardens, as food in the countryside becomes harder to find under the blanket of snow and ice.

Go to article Puffins that breed on the Isle of May off the coast of east Scotland, have been tracked during the winter time for the first time, giving new insight into the problems they face.

Go to article An island off the coast of Devon has today (12 January) become England’s first Marine Conservation Zone, established as part of an ongoing network of marine protected areas.

Go to article The migration route taken by Arctic Terns through the Atlantic Ocean has been revealed for the first time thanks to small tracking devices that were attached to several birds.

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Go to article The RSPB is calling on everyone who enjoys being out in the countryside to take extra care not to disturb wildlife, especially birds, during this exceptionally cold spell.

Go to article As one of the coldest winters in decades hits parts of Britain with snow and freezing temperatures, the RSPB is appealing for people to spare a thought for those birds who need our help to survive.

Go to article The RSPB document dramatic increases and, unfortunately, some dramatic declines of UK breeding birds in the first decade of the new century.

Go to article The RSPB's Abernethy Forest Nature Reserve had the best capercaillie breeding season for 13 years in 2009.

Go to article There has been an obvious dearth of Goldcrests this autumn, with fewer than usual sightings in many parts of Britain. This is confirmed by the latest report from the BTO’s BirdTrack.

Go to article A once-in-a-decade gathering of conservation experts will take place this week, to discuss the best ways to protect Britain’s most threatened wildlife habitat, which is under threat from climate change.

Go to article Survey work has revealed that some populations of Dartford Warbler in south-east England have crashed alarmingly following the severe winter weather in February 2009.

Go to article A new method for accurately monitoring bird populations has been developed using recordings of bird songs, giving a much better estimate of bird densities than trapping or counting by ear.

Go to article The UK’s Fisheries Minister is calling on the EU to introduce new measures to reduce the huge slaughter of seabirds which occurs in European waters every year.

Go to article The recent drop in Red Kite numbers in Europe is so alarming that the EU has adopted a new action plan which will be implemented across Europe in a bid to halt the decline.

Go to article A four-year study into the effects of the introduced Ring-necked Parakeet on native bird species in Britain needs help in estimating the current population, and is calling on birdwatchers for assistance.

Go to article One of Europe's most critically endangered birds is to receive a major boost with new funding towards its conservation thanks to the efforts of Birdwatch magazine and its readers.

Go to article A Red Kite has been found illegally poisoned in Co Down, Northern Ireland only a few months after its release as part of the scheme to reintroduce the species.

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Go to article Britain’s farmland birds show a continuing downward trend in populations, according to latest figures, published by the Government. Woodland birds have also declined while wetland birds have increased.

Go to article A decision to grant consent to a wind farm within a designated Special Protection Area on the island of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, has been greeted with dismay by RSPB Scotland.

Go to article A new report shows that over the last 10 years rare birds have been doing much better than their more common counterparts

Go to article After a seven-year campaign some of Europe's most important wildlife sites, in north-east Poland, have been spared the ravages of an environmentally-damaging road development.

Go to article A new RSPB project which re-creates a rare and vanishing habitat for wildlife, as well as helps to reduce the risk of flooding along the River Forth has reached fruition this week.

Go to article The amazing influx of Glossy Ibises into Britain and Ireland this autumn has brought with it a number of colour-ringed birds and the BTO has been trying to track them.

Go to article Mediterranean Gulls are increasingly choosing the Medway Estuary as a place to breed.

Go to article The BTO Atlas project has discovered Icterine Warblers breeding at two sites, one of them confirmed as being in Sutherland. There are three previous breeding records in Britain.

Go to article One of the world’s rarest birds has been shot by a hunter in Saudi Arabia. This leaves the known wild Middle Eastern population of Northern Bald Ibis reduced to only just four individuals.

Go to article The Suffolk coast is being considered as a possible future home for white-tailed eagles.

Go to article Worries over the depletion of Sand Eels and other vital food for Scotland's seabird colonies were assuaged somewhat this year, as most northern colonies have had their most productive year for over almost a decade, counts by the RSPB have revealed.

Go to article Long term conservation planning has seen bittern numbers rise again in Britain's expanded and revived wetland habitats.

Go to article The conservation of the unique Hebridean machair is set to receive funding to the tune of £2 million, thanks to a massive money boost from Scottish and EU grant funds.

Go to article An extremely tame juvenile Bullfinch is proving a popular draw at one of the RSPB's wetlands reserves, this August.

Go to article A camera has captured the moment a thief tried to make off with the eggs of a rare bird.

Go to article Thieves have stolen hundreds of irreplaceable bird skins from the Natural History Museum’s collection based at Tring in Hertfordshire. Police are investigating the theft.

Go to article Loch Garten’s Osprey chicks have started their long journey south to their wintering ground in Africa. As they move down through Britain and across to Europe you can track them online to see where they go.

Go to article The number of animal poisoning incidents in Scotland has fallen between 2007 and 2008. However, the government admits that more must be done to control pesticide abuse.

Go to article Endangered birds’ eggs were among several hundred discovered at a North Wales man’s house. Pleading guilty at Llandudno Magistrates Court, he has now been sentenced.

Go to article With this year’s grouse shooting season about to start, news of increased numbers of Red Grouse will please the shooters, while reports of persecuted Hen Harriers have enraged conservationists.

Go to article One of Britain's rarest seabirds has had a record-breaking breeding season on its main colony in Northumberland, thanks to special conservation measures by the RSPB.

Go to article This summer, seabirds on Shetland have had their best breeding season for years but the reasons for the success are not clear but must be linked to food availability, say ornithologists.

Go to article New grants are being offered to landowners and managers who join a scheme to help a range of woodland birds in the East Midlands and South Yorkshire, says the Forestry Commission.

Go to article A Golden Eagle, fitted with a radio transmitter, has been found dead on a Scottish estate and tests have shown that it was illegally poisoned. Police are making enquiries and have raided a property.

Go to article Four new species and one new subspecies have been added to the British Ornithologists’ Union’s list after reviews by the BOU Records Committee.

Go to article French biologists believe they have uncovered the reason why hundreds of seabirds are so often washed up ashore dead during the winter in what are known as ‘wrecks’.

Go to article Biologists visiting a remote island off the west coast of Scotland have found the two oldest Puffins in Britain, one of them also being the oldest in Europe.

Go to article One of a group of Spoonbills present in Norfolk for several weeks has been on quite a journey, judging from reported sightings of this ringed bird. The BTO has been plotting its movements.

Go to article In the last few days, two juvenile cranes have been seen at the Lakenheath Fen RSPB reserve, creating a wave of interest from visitors.

Go to article A new scheme for Britain’s farmers will encourage them to take up subsidised environmental options as part of a voluntary system, and has been given full support by the RSPB.

Go to article Loch Garten's most famous offspring can be followed online thanks to satellite tags fitted by the RSPB which will transmit data on their southward journey to West Africa.

Go to article A pair of Ravens have raised young in Kent for the first time in more than 100 years

Go to article The latest GPS technology is being used to track the movements of Puffins from their breeding grounds in the hope that it may give an insight into their recent worrying declines.

Go to article This year looks like being one of the worst on record for crimes against Peregrines.

Go to article One of Britain’s least known birds has revealed some of its secrets to biologists who are studying it in Scotland using ringing and radio tagging techniques.

Go to article Conservationists fear that heavy snow and cold temperatures in February may have caused a dramatic crash in Dartford Warbler numbers at some key British breeding sites.

Go to article The race to fund the construction of a new eco-friendly bird observatory on Fair Isle is in the final stages and urgent donations are needed to ensure its swift completion.

Go to article New genetic evidence appears to support the splitting of the Sandwich Tern complex into two only distantly related species.

Go to article A new project will enable the movements of one of Scotland’s rarest birds of prey to be followed online thanks to attached satellite tags, says RSPB Scotland.

Go to article Common Swifts are the sound of summer to the ears of Britain’s birdwatchers as they speed through the air in tight, screaming flocks but this iconic species is in serious trouble, says the RSPB.

Go to article A Golden Eagle, recently discovered dead Argyll in west Scotland, is believed to have been poisoned, says the RSPB. An appeal for information has been made to the public.

Go to article The world’s oldest bird of prey nest that is still in use has been discovered in Greenland but climate change may threaten its continuing use, believe ornithologists.

Go to article A new report, just published by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, reveals major declines in many UK seabird species, especially in Scotland. This may result in seabird cliffs becoming devoid of birds in the near future.

Go to article For the first time in at least 200 years Ospreys are nesting in Northumberland, according to the Kielder Partnership. A special nesting platform is being used by the birds.

Go to article For the first time in more than 175 years, Great Bustards have hatched chicks in Britain. The birds are part of a controversial reintroduction project based at Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.

Go to article In the fiftieth anniversary of the Osprey viewpoint at the Loch Garten eyrie, three chicks successfully hatched over the bank holiday weekend. However, further success is in jeopardy due to both parent birds becoming entangled in fishing line.

Go to article Birds of Conservation Concern 3, the 'red list' compiled by Britain's biggest conservation organisations, has bad news for some of the country's most familiar and loved bird species.

Go to article A new atlas of wading bird distributions for Europe, Asia and Africa, launched this week, shows that populations of many species are declining at an ever-rapid rate.

Go to article The BTO is asking for details of escaped and naturalised non-native species as part of the voluntary survey work for the 2007-11 national Bird Atlas, with a particular focus on Black Swan, which is generally under-recorded.

Go to article Cyprus has abandoned plans to allow the shooting of birds this May. The decision is seen as a landmark success for the three-year long BirdLife International and BirdLife Cyprus campaign.

Go to article A team of volunteers is busy on the beach at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, helping to protect the UK's largest colony of Little Terns from both predators and human disturbance.

Go to article A new webcam features Britain’s rarest crow and brings live images from deep within a sea cave in North Wales, thanks to the RSPB.

Go to article Golden Orioles returned remarkably early this year, and could be heard singing at the end of April at their British stronghold in Norfolk.

Go to article BirdLife’s Spring Watch teams recorded more than 950 shots taken by hunters at several locations in Malta during the nine days since the beginning of the international bird monitoring camp on 11 April.

Go to article One of Europe’s rarest birds of prey is recovering its numbers thanks to conservation initiatives.

Go to article Warm summers are dramatically reducing populations of daddy long legs, which in turn is having a severe impact on the bird populations which rely on them for food, RSPB Scotland scientists have shown.

Go to article Recently published, BTO-affiliated research has uncovered a sizeable north-east movement in the main distribution of wintering wading birds

Go to article BirdLife International, BirdLife Malta and the RSPB have welcomed the Maltese Prime Minister’s announcement that the spring hunting of quail and turtle dove will be banned on the islands in 2009.

Go to article Two surveys of the wintering grounds of Spoon-billed Sandpiper starkly illustrate the extreme and growing pressures this Critically Endangered species faces.

Go to article As of 1st January 2009 records of White-billed Diver, Cattle Egret and Parrot Crossbill will no longer be assessed by the British Birds Rarities Committee.

Go to article Climate change is already having a detectable impact on birds across Europe, say a group of scientists publishing their findings to create the world’s first indicator of the climate change impacts on wildlife at a continental scale.

Go to article James Bond has got nothing on a set of secret missions being carried out by the RSPB to fit cameras overlooking a variety of bird nests this month.

Go to article An international conference aimed at halting the decline of one of Europe’s rarest wildfowl took place on the Scottish island of Islay this week.

Go to article The migration of two North American songbird species has been directly tracked for the first time, revealing that they fly further in a day than was previously realised.

Go to article The major construction work for the first new lagoon at Rutland Water is now complete and it is filling with water, and the new hides overlooking the lagoon are now open!

Go to article The British Birdwatching Fair has once again delivered a huge boost to the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme with the presentation of cheque for £265,000 ($380,000) from the proceeds of the 2008 fair.

Go to article Black Grouse experienced mixed fortunes on RSPB nature reserves in 2008 - with declines in Scotland but increases on southern reserves. Scotland is still the stronghold of the Black Grouse population in the UK.