A former golf course is welcoming new arrivals as a coastal restoration project opens to visitors.

Twenty years of habitat restoration have changed the fortunes of a Wiltshire landscape and its remarkable breeding birds.

Young birds are being prepared to join a tiny Pacific island population, as conservationists work towards the species' eventual return to Guam.

The latest journey behind an ultralight aircraft has demanded patience, improvisation and a willingness to change course.

Police are seeking information after treatment failed to save a bird discovered with a badly injured wing.

An initial three-year award will support Little Terns, Ringed Plovers and other coastal birds within a much longer disturbance plan.

The Northumberland colony recorded its highest-ever number of nesting pairs, with at least 82 chicks successfully fledging.

Evidence gathered at mountain migration routes has led to arrests and gun seizures, as conservation teams document the killing of passing birds.

An exceptional movement from the east has kept Finnish birders watching as autumn advances.

A proposed crossing between Sicily and mainland Italy has prompted an international warning over the future of one of Europe’s most important migration routes.

A coastal landscape used by breeding waders has won a significant reprieve, although the developer behind a major salmon-farming proposal is seeking government intervention.

US$150,000 raised through Global Birdfair will support work to protect three Critically Endangered birds found only on São Tomé.

Lake Vyrnwy leads a successful breeding season across three reserves, with 17 young raised at five nests.

Satellite tracking reveals a little-seen side of this grassland bird’s summer life, with implications for how to protect its habitat.

A US Fish and Wildlife Service directive says killing protected wildlife will count as an unlawful take only when an act is intentionally directed at the animal.

Eighteen Andalusian Hemipode chicks have been transferred from Morocco to Jerez to establish a captive-breeding nucleus for a bird lost from Spain in 1981.

LPO Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur has launched a programme to restore open garrigue habitat for Iberian Grey Shrikes in Bouches-du-Rhone.

A new national strategy aims to rebuild a sustainable Scottish Wildcat population, combining further releases with action on hybridisation, habitat fragmentation and avoidable deaths.

Fires at Abernethy, Dunwich Heath and in the New Forest have damaged important wildlife habitats, with conservation managers warning that some areas could take decades to recover.

Police are appealing for information after a young Marsh Harrier was found with gunshot injuries near Westerdale. The bird is believed to have lain injured for several days before being discovered.

Jon Dunn looks back at the best birds from around Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic.

The first coordinated international survey of Yellow-breasted Bunting winter roosts has established a vital new baseline for the Critically Endangered migrant.

Three nests produced 13 young at RSPB Geltsdale in Cumbria, delivering the reserve's best Hen Harrier season for more than a century.

Three nests produced 13 young at RSPB Geltsdale in Cumbria, delivering the reserve's best Hen Harrier season for more than a century.

Rwanda's tenth national Grey Crowned Crane census counted 1,438 birds, up from fewer than 300 around a decade ago.

Police Scotland is seeking information after a Red Kite was caught in an illegally set coil-spring trap near Strathdon in Aberdeenshire.

Night patrols in Macerata province found and seized six prohibited electromagnetic callers positioned to attract migrating Common Quail.

Almost 1.4 million butterflies and moths were counted in 2026, but drought damage could affect larvae and future populations.

Work has started on the visitor centre for RSPB Kingsbrook Meadows, where wetlands, meadows, pools and woodland are planned.

Fifty years of nesting records show that fixed farm-management dates leave many Lapwing and Oystercatcher nests and chicks exposed.

A synthesis of 120 populations found breeding-site fidelity falls sharply among shorebirds using the High-Arctic tundra.

BirdLife Malta says storms forced large numbers of migrants onto the islands before protected birds and Turtle Doves were reportedly shot.

NatureScot says 35 beavers removed from conflict sites were released in approved Highland locations during 2025-26.

Tasmania has begun an H5 bird-flu vaccination programme expected to cover around 350 captive Orange-bellied Parrots by February.

A 47-year study in western Finland links the loss of grass-covered vole habitat and open ditches with a decline of more than half in breeding Short-eared Owls.

Campaigners analysing government monitoring data say second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide contamination has risen sharply in tested Buzzards.

BirdLife Austria recorded 68 Eastern Imperial Eagle territories in 2026, but brief cold and wet weather contributed to the poorest breeding success for 15 years.

A further 148 captive-reared Corncrakes have been released in the Lower Derwent Valley as conservationists work towards a self-sustaining Yorkshire population.

Suspicious gnaw marks on The Skerries triggered an emergency response involving bait stations and a specialist rat-detection dog.

RSPB Northern Ireland has acquired Carr Island on Lower Lough Erne, extending a reserve network managed for Curlew, Lapwing, Snipe and other birds.

A Surrey study suggests timely signs explaining risks to ground-nesting birds may attract more attention than generic requests to keep dogs under control.

Thirty captive-bred Turtle Doves have been released near Selborne as habitat work prepares the South Downs for a possible return from Africa next spring.

Tracking 16 breeding Scops Owls in Slovenia highlights the value of meadow orchards, hedgerows, isolated trees and grassland near hunting perches.

White-tailed Eagle Kinky has been seen alive and well on Mull three years after a nest fall left him with a seriously broken wing.

Research in eastern Poland found strong differences in where Black and White-winged Black Terns forage, despite substantial overlap in prey delivered to chicks.

A habitat model built from 4,189 European records identifies extensive potentially suitable Pine Marten habitat across parts of England, Wales and Scotland.

Radar satellites have been used to follow Emperor Penguin colonies through the darkness of the Antarctic winter, closing a major gap in efforts to monitor the species from space

Satellite tracking shows female Dotterels moving among up to five breeding areas in a single season, although their behaviour at each stop remains unknown.