A winter walk can offer up some truly beautiful and surprising wild spectacles – Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s reserves have plenty to offer

Nadia Shaikh seeks good company for a search-and-gorge to get her through the ruthless darkness of the winter months

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Jolly frock-coated robins, majestic geese and arboreal partridges make for both literal and symbolic centrepieces at Christmas, says Matthew Dennison, as he revels in the cultural history of the season’s feathered fowl and game

In the mid-2000s, the RSPB began transferring millions of ...