The best rare birds seen all around Britain in 2025

The year was rounded off nicely with one or two exceptional rarities, rudely inconveniencing many birders enjoying the festive season…

DECEMBER 2025

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Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family– and a figure of particular terror to the vole

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed