In the spotlight black-headed gull (chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Check your answers against our explanations. Remember, there are no ‘trick’ birds or extreme rarities among these...

Spring is the time to see the muscular and noble goshawk, usually as elusive as a ghost circling and swooping through the sky

Our view of them may be clouded by controversy, but the sight of a silver-grey hen harrier scaling the heavens is pure theatre

The part played by beauty in sexual selection

Long believed to be a symbol of good fortune, the albatross has its own annual world awareness day on 19th June. As legend would have it, the bird embodies the souls of sailors lost at sea, and to har

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to the fighting spirit of the tiny merlin, a fierce parent and favoured hunting accessory of Mary, Queen of Scots