Flight fantastic

Avian plumage doesn’t simply enable flight–this miracle of Nature provides birds with protection, shape and colour and remains a highly desirable fashion accoutrement for us, too, finds Charles Harris

Paul waits for a hatch: time spent by ...

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Red kites, great spotted woodpeckers and pink-footed geese are only a few of the birds doing brilliantly in the British Isles right now. Mark Cocker celebrates their success stories and looks at what might be learnt from them

Jenny Sheldon from the Wildlife Trusts explains how moths are one of our best garden pollinators

Nadia Shaikh goes synaesthetic for the start of spring, almost tasting the orange tang of an early butterfly