The latest RSPB guidance is to feed birds seasonally and safely to avoid the spread of disease. You can do this by cleaning ...

seeds and household foods such as bread, pastry, cheese and bacon rinds. Don’t forget to put some on the ground for birds such as chaffinches. Water... is important to all birds for drinking and ...

Visitors to RSPB Minsmere on the Suffolk coast were in for a surprise this week as an American songbird turned up. Red-eyed ...

Designs for a new ‘Wildlife Viewing Gallery’ at RSPB Bempton Cliffs have been revealed as the wildlife charity launched a ...

An amateur photographer said watching BBC TV as his film of a bittern was used to open the 2023 Winterwatch series was a "very exciting" moment. Steve Everett captured the bird picking its way ...

The swift has been named the RSPB's first-ever 'Bird of the Year'. The species topped a seven-week tournament-style public vote on Instagram, created by the wildlife charity to spotlight eight of the ...

The RSPB has confirmed the presence of its most northerly breeding bitterns at a nature reserve on Teesside. RSPB Saltholme said the birds bred at the reserve in Stockton for the first time in the ...

The much-loved BBC series Winterwatch is set to grace our screens once again this week with a host of special episodes. Winterwatch, which has been airing on BBC Two since 2012, forms part of the ...

The number of ringed plover chicks successfully fledging has been increasing. The reserve, off the coast at Amble, now has five species of seabird on the red list of concern. Conservation groups are ...

A rare insect has been released at two nature reserves in Surrey and Sussex in a bid to boost the population. The field cricket nearly disappeared from the UK because of a decline in the heathland ...

A 50-year vision for the East Anglian Fens has been unveiled. The plan to create 5,000 hectares of new wetlands was unveiled on Friday by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The ...

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