Total birding

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

SET A TARGET OF SEEING 200 BIRDS IN ONE YEAR!

If the Premier League’s foundation provided the gunpowder for English football’s foreign revolution, the summer of 1995 was when the keg exploded. The year in which I Believe by Robson & Jerome unfath

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

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

PHOTO: TOM BAILEY 1 It’s a win for ...