Follow my mum

No self-professed bird-lover should ever tire of ‘vismigging’, or watching avian migrations in action. This biannual event occurs when huge numbers of migratory birds follow established flyways to the

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

It’s a part of Iceland that’s off the tourist trail, but it’s brilliant for birding, writes Vanessa Wright

The geography of Batumi, Georgia, makes it one of the great destinations for observing mass migration of raptors, writes Mike Weedon

The results of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count 2025 are in, revealing the long-term forecast for the survival of many of our much-loved summer insects is still gloomy. The sunniest spring