Weekly birding round up 24 Dec 2025 - 8 Jan 2026

Jon Dunn brings you his first roundup of 2026 and its a bumper edition looking back at the festive fortnight as we saw out 2025 and welcomed in a new year. More here >

Review of the Year 2025: Part 1

We look back at the standout rarity records and notable species recorded in Britain and Ireland in early 2025. More here >

Songbird breeding outcomes improve sharply between 2024 and 2025

Warm, settled weather helped many familiar species raise more young, offering a rare piece of good news after a disastrous summer in 2024. More here >

Yellow-legged Gulls are moving closer to people as fear and disturbance decline

Long-term research from north-west Spain shows Yellow-legged Gulls abandoning traditional refuges and triggering the formation of multi-species waterbird colonies in more accessible coastal sites. More here >

Asian Koels do not copy their hosts' eggs - but may be shadowing the wrong species

Objective analysis across Asia finds no evidence that koels match their eggs to those of the birds they parasitise most often. challenging long-held assumptions about the brood parasite. More here >