Amazing grace

Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family– and a figure of particular terror to the vole

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

Whether for its textbook appearance, regional ubiquity or haunting and mellifluous call, it’s no wonder the inimitable tawny may be Britain’s best-loved owl

Reading Sam Pyrah’s feature ‘In search of natural wonders’ in the January issue, I can’t imagine she was standing close to her starling murmuration, or she would have mentioned the incredible noise it

Following two weeks spent acclimatising in a special enclosure near Vylkove, a town on the edge of the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, it was time for four young eagle owls to leave. Though the bi

From her Yorkshire smallholding, Sally Coulthard marvels at the superpowers of crepuscular creatures that emerge in the magical half-light of dawn and dusk