House martin

Structured, social and remarkably sophisticated, a bustling woodland ant community is home to engineers, farmers, nurses and warriors

The marsh harrier, with its effortlessly slow and floating signature manoeuvre, is so enjoying its UK comeback that it now stays with us all year round

Now the crowds have gone, Karen Youngs heads to the beach to enjoy the antics of some recent arrivals

The pine marten may have a taste for jam sandwiches, but its razor-sharp claws and appetite for eggs and grey squirrels makes it a predatory force to be reckoned with, says Patrick Galbraith

LIGHT is everything when it comes to taking pictures, and after weeks of nothing but drab greyness, the weather is set fair. In a quiet corner of our rambling garden, I have set up my small portable p

The white-tailed eagle, the UK’s largest bird of prey, was brought back from extinction – and it all started with an ambitious project on a mountainous Scottish island, half a century ago...