In the spotlight

Return migration is here in earnest – David Callahan explains what to look for in autumn…

30-minute-birder Amanda Tuke meets Kent’s charismatic corvids…

They’re noisy, they pinch chips, and they make a mess, but these birds deserve our admiration, writes Ruth Miller

After facing extinction as a British breeder, this handsome small bird has bounced back, writes Ian Parsons …

A master of disguise, inexplicably shy and unpredictably wild, the increasingly rare ring ouzel warrants giving any blackbird a second glance,

THE BLACK-CAPPED chickadee is wonderfully onomatopoeic. When the diminutive songbird, which is Canada’s answer to the great tit, spots a great-horned owl perched in a tree, it broadcasts a shrill ‘chi