One of the highlights of my bird year is to first hear and then see the wavy skeins of Pink-footed Geese flying over from their summer breed...

Species like the Robin keep territories during the winter, with males and female individuals defending their own separate territories, w...

In the last month, I've come across a couple of wintering Chiffchaffs. The last of them this Wednesday on my way to work, the calling ...

Yesterday we did a stop in Oxford on our way south of the UK. After lunch, we quickly popped by the Natural History Museum. This magnifice...

A flock of about 100 common gulls winters in the park, they arrive at the end of September/October and are around most of the time until t...

Although I wouldn't consider Pink-footed Goose (also known as Pinkfoot) to be an urban bird, it is a species that I regularly see. Ske...

During April, Blackcaps return to thickets and woodland, where the male's beautiful song joins the resident birds. These Blackcaps hav...

I have litte interest in watching birds swept away from their native grounds by a tropical storm, or inexplicably lost and found far away ...

Birds have a range of behaviours to cope with the cold. Many - Swallows, Cuckoo, many warblers - avoid it altogether by migrating to warme...