Long-running releases in Germany and Austria are establishing breeding populations where the large forest owl disappeared during the twentieth century.

Wildlife impacts, animal welfare and crime are among the issues under examination as conservationists renew calls for shoot licensing.

A 63% fall in Chinstrap Penguins has cost Zavodovski Island its global record and changed the balance of its seabird community.

Two males released in Rajasthan mark the transition from building a conservation-breeding population to testing reintroduction methods.

Footage from Benacre National Nature Reserve may be the county's first live record, but Natural England says a lookalike species has not been ruled out.

Nearly half a million people took part in the Bank of England consultation that put British wildlife at the centre of the next series.

A new survey underlines the importance of Jaeren, where local breeding numbers contrast with a much wider national decline.

How will this year's drought affect reservoir levels and the wintering wildfowl that use them.

Thursday 1 October 2026 dawned calm after the previous day saw south easterly gales gusting to 50mph and a band of heavy rain crossing Shetland.

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.