Raptor numbers in freefall across africa

FOR AS LONG AS I COULD REMEMBER, the northern goshawk had been elusive, existing just at the edge of everything. This ‘grey ghost’ haunted my imagination. In the early 1970s – which was just as I was

Until this summer, Montagu’s Harrier had disappeared as a UK breeding bird – can anything be done to mitigate the challenges to future success, asks John Miles …

This enigmatic eastern vagrant has become a mega-rarity, writes David Lindo …

PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY

A new book of bird photography celebrates not only the avian world, but the photographers using creative techniques to produce original artworks, from characterful studio portraits to eye-catching abstracts, writes Graeme Green

We take a look at the UK’s brilliant variety of British birds of prey