Arctic skua

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

Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world

The rise and rise of raptor species has been a major success of the past half century, but it may well have been the downfall of the common kestrel

South africa’s sardine run might just be the greatest wildlife spectacle you’ve never heard of. So large is this annual fishy movement that in biomass terms alone it has been estimated to rival the ep

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

A cold-water nomad with a voracious appetite, the overfished cod may be dwindling in numbers, but it is still a big beast of the sea