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

Reading Sam Pyrah’s feature ‘In search of natural wonders’ in the January issue, I can’t imagine she was standing close to her starling murmuration, or she would have mentioned the incredible noise it

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

If you found one of these on your patch, you’d be guaranteed a fanfare, says David Lindo …

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Sporting its dapper monochrome plumage, a black (or American) skimmer calls to its colony-mates on a busy Florida beach. A member of the tern family and one of just three skimmer species worldwide, th