Welcome

For broadcaster and naturalist David Lindo, the city offers as many birdwatching opportunities as the countryside. You just need to know where to focus your binoculars

PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY

They’re the species that blend into the background – 10 that every birder should be ticking, but maybe isn’t…

Getting to know these chatty, sociable and intelligent birds

Autumn is a wonderful time of year. Birds are on the move in their masses. It is exciting. And just about anything can turn up. Here are five birds which may look to be dressed in the dulled browns of autumn, but are all special, even thrilling to watch.

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