In the second of two features about learning bird calls, Amanda Tuke investigates what ‘birdscape’ recordings and using AI have to offer for upskilling and surveys…

One of the rich joys of birding is that there are birds everywhere, including gardens and parks. Just get out and walk around, there’s no need to be quiet or furtive. Become familiar with your feather

Red kites, great spotted woodpeckers and pink-footed geese are only a few of the birds doing brilliantly in the British Isles right now. Mark Cocker celebrates their success stories and looks at what might be learnt from them

Let’s take a closer look at these colourful, handsome birds

It can still seem like winter, but March sees birds beginning to stir, writes David Callahan …

IT began as an unremarkable day. Leaves falling into mud on the riverbank, the sun shy behind ink splodged clouds. Jays screeching in the oakwood. I stopped. Mammal tracks drew my eyes. I knelt. These