Josh Jones rounds up the best birding action during the week of 17-23 February 2025. A Wallcreeper report had birders' pulses raising as milder air delivered the first spring migrants of the year, ...

An unexpected find over the weekend comprised a first-summer male Desert Wheatear at Keynsham, Avon. It is quite an uncommon record in a historical context, with only one previous June record from ...

As is so often the case by this point in the winter, British and Irish birding was very settled this week with little change to the highlights reel – bar any extreme weather events, things will likely ...

With the BTO announcing plans for its next Breeding Bird Atlas, our columnist wonders if it is time to move such important ...

It wasn't until the very end of July last year that 2023's seabird spectacular whipped up into a frenzy, and many were wondering if a repeat appearance would happen in 2024. They needn't have worried, ...

Easterly winds blowing in from Scandinavia and the Near Continent brought a mini-arrival of Waxwings in northern areas in what has been a poor winter for the species. As many as 21 birds across four ...

Alpine Accentor, Blackgang, Isle of Wight (Iain Outlaw). Given the deluge of European overshoots that reached Co Cork during the week, Irish birders must have been left ruing their luck that they ...

Sam Viles rounds up the best birding action in Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic during the week of 24-30 March 2025. Forster's and White-winged Terns, another Ashy-headed Wagtail and a ...

New rarities were still thin on the ground in a predictably static week as we await the arrival of all our loveable summer migrants. Spring is getting going, though, particularly with Sand Martins; a ...

Pallid Harrier has been seen for the first time in the Americas. The harrier was identified by raptor expert Dick Forsman ...

Plans to restore a Sandwich Tern colony at Loch Ryan have been recommended for approval by Dumfries and Galloway Council. The ...

A new study has found that ticks in areas where Common Pheasants are released for shooting are significantly more likely to ...