Birders, deployed

SOUTH WEST Highlights In association with The rarest ...

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke investigates the impact of feeding wild birds, and whether it’s a factor behind the decline of a woodland specialist

Wildlife photography isn’t all about attention-grabbing species, writes Rob Read

For the time-strapped birder, the ‘mini-twitch’ is key to boosting your year list, explains Marc Abbott

From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills, says John Lewis-Stempel

Mike has been pondering the identification of individual birds, before drifting into insect-watching for the summer