We are fortunate to have many beautiful British birds throughout the country. Some visit our gardens, others are found only in the wild, and a few favour our cities. With so many varieties, bird ...

There are more than 600 bird species in the UK, with an estimated 83 million breeding pairs – down from 102 million half a century ago when reliable population studies began. They form an acoustic ...

A British bird, once considered so delicious that it was nearly hunted to extinction 500 years ago, is making a comeback. Once widespread in the UK, cranes were heavily hunted until the Elizabethan ...

Juliet Vickery has received funding from the UK government through the Darwin Initiative. Viola Ross-Smith and David Noble of the British Trust for Ornithology helped write this article. The red list ...