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I wonder if any of your team can shed any light on the following: where have all our garden birds gone? We live in rural South Devon, surrounded by countryside and have a lovely garden with numerous f

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...

It’s the largest member of its worldwide family, but has it ever reached the UK, asks David Lindo

Finding the best birds can mean looking in some less than obvious places, writes Paul Brook

Scourge of the bird feeder and a master of ‘shock and awe’ assassinations, the sparrowhawk pursues its quarry with such tenacity and unpredictability that it often blindsides its prey