Most birds I see are common and familiar, so I can usually name them. But every now and then a mystery individual appears, and begins to ring alarm bells: what on earth is that? That's what happened ...

Britain's 12,000 or so miles of coastline support some of our greatest wildlife spectacles, including vast and noisy colonies of breeding seabirds – once memorably described by ornithologist Roy ...

The Rock Pipit is a small stocky bird about 17 cm long. In summer, it is recognisable by its chest and ivory flanks streaked with small grey-brown strips. The top of its plumage is grey-brown tending ...

Every winter readers ask me about a bird that looks almost like a sparrow but acts different. They describe a 5-inch-long, streaked bird that's otherwise drab and somewhat larger than a sparrow. After ...

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