A trial is due to begin tomorrow (Tuesday 17 March 2026) at Perth Sheriff Court for a Scottish gamekeeper accused of killing a Goshawk on a Perthshire shooting estate. The alleged incident took pla…

A ringed Bewick's Swan has been recorded in the UK for the first time in 20 years. The bird, known to researchers as Galina, was first ringed two decades ago on its Russian breeding grounds as part of the Europe-wide monitoring effort co-ordinated by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) and partner organisations. 

Recent tracking technologies have revealed remarkable diel flight altitude changes over the Sahara Desert in small migratory birds. However, the drive…

Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

A comprehensive review of records published in Dutch Birding has documented the continued westward spread and population growth of Blyth's Reed Warbler, with new breeding locales now established well beyond its historic European range.

No patches of snow survived on the hills of Scotland from the winter of 2024/2025 to the winter of 2025/2026.

Words by Alice Pearson, Project Creation Officer for Moors for the Future Partnership

Despite more than 70 years of full legal protection, raptor persecution remains a serious and persistent wildlife crime. The Yorkshire Dales is one of the UK’s worst-affected areas, with 152 confirmed...

NatureScot has today announced a three-year General Licence restriction on Raeshaw Estate (and on neighbouring Watherston Wood, which is understood to be under separate management to Raeshaw), in r…

Four-year-old Hamlet was discovered injured by a gamekeeper on an estate in Stanhope, near Tweedsmuir.

Conservationists find dunlin chicks thriving in boggy habitat created in collaboration with landowners

Great Bustard nests have been confirmed from Cranborne Chase for the first time, marking a significant milestone for the long-running reintroduction project in southern England and highlighting the species' slow but steady recovery in Wiltshire.

Following the decision to approve the rewilding scheme, Barking and Dagenham Council deputy leader Saima Ashraf said the arrival of the birds in the borough would be a

An autumn roost of almost 3,000 Stock Doves at Marais de la Vacherie nature reserve in western France may represent the largest such congregation ever recorded in the country.