The UK’s hedgerows (all 95,000 miles of them!) are a critical habitat, supporting up to 130 of our priority species throughout the seasons. To celebrate National Hedgerow Week, we’re taking you for a ...

To mark this spring’s World Migratory Bird Day on 11 May, and its theme this year of ‘insects’, we are celebrating the incredibly important relationship between insects and some of our best-loved ...

This magnificently graceful bird of prey is unmistakable with its reddish-brown body, angled wings and deeply forked tail. It was saved from national extinction by one of the world's longest-running ...

The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is the smallest and least common of the three woodpeckers that are resident in Britain. The male is distinguished from the female by his bright red crown. It tends to ...

Young people are our future. We’re determined to help the next generation enjoy and connect with nature, so they’re inspired to protect birds and other wildlife. Generation after generation, we’re ...

Author of 'Wild City' Florence Wilkinson shares what she’s been doing to make her urban garden more wildlife friendly this spring. Gazing out of the glass doors at the back of our house, I spot a ...

After a consultation on hedgerows last year demonstrated overwhelming support for protections, the UK government has now taken the first step to reinstating them in England. They will apply to ...

Grey Herons are unmistakeable – tall, with long legs, a long beak and grey, black and white feathering. They can stand with their neck stretched out, looking for food, or hunched down with their neck ...

Newport Wetlands is a blend of wetlands, reedbeds and estuary habitats, including the thick, squelchy mud that waders and wildfowl love to forage in. Look among the reedbeds for Lapwings and ...

The House Martin is a small bird with glossy blue-black upper parts and pure white under parts. It has a distinctive white rump with a forked tail and, on close inspection, white feathers covering its ...

The Marsh Tit is a small, mainly brown bird, with a shiny black cap, dark bib and pale belly. In the UK, its identification is made tricky by the very similar appearance of native Willow Tits. They're ...

The wildlife-rich Caledonian pineforest of Loch Garten and Abernathy is like no other forest in the UK. Huge, Gnarled, lichen-encrusted Scots pine trees flank the land, interspersed with Blaeberry, ...