Winter can often feel an empty time for the ravenous wildlife watcher. But spending time on the Severn Estuary watching the many winter visitors like plover, redshanks, lapwings and others is a…

About a quarter of our familiar birds herald spring when they arrive in the UK to nest and breed. But what happens when it is time for them to leave? By August the breeding season is ending, and…

“Robin”, “blue tit”, “crow” – those are the easy ones, but what happens when the children in our lives point at a brown-coloured duck and ask us, “what’s that one?”.