SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH showcases London’s wildlife secrets

Who needs the Galapagos? Sir David Attenborough revels in the wildlife on his London doorstep

THIS MONTH Barn owls

What the scientists are saying… Falling puffin numbers ...

The fennec fox is the smallest fox in the world, with a body length that can be as little as 24cm. The canid’s range is North Africa, throughout the Sahara Desert, and east to the Sinai and Arabian Pe

Plundering a local byway for a spot of festive foraging, John Lewis-Stempel finds all life proliferating in the multitudinous micro-habitat of the winter hedgerow