SPECIES PROFILE COMMON SCOTER

UK & IRELAND SPECIALIST SPECIES HUNTING

With its majestic proportions and astonishing turn of speed–it can swim faster than a battleship–the bluefin tuna is poetry in motion

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke finds it hard to relax on holiday when so much is going on back home in London…