Birds

Common Crane, RSPB

Wildlife stories

Breeding success for common cranes in 2020

Hunting bird

Guide to Britain’s herons, bitterns and cranes: identification, what they eat and where to see

Bird in flight with sunset

How to identify

British birds of prey guide: how to identify raptors and where to see

Ducks flying over lake

British duck guide: identification, species, facts and where to see

Bird on perch

How to identify

Guide to swallows: how to identify, where to see and migration

Seabirds above waves

Little terns experience best breeding season for 25 years at Norfolk nature reserve

Flock of barnacle geese

How to identify

Guide to Britain’s geese species: how to identify and where to see

A honey buzzard on the look out for wasps deep in a forest

Honey buzzards in Wales – episode one of a new season of Plodcasts!

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Nightingale guide: species facts and how Britain’s songbird is under threat

Britain's strangest bird

An eerie evening with Britain’s strangest bird – the nightjar

rabbits in spring on sugar loaf Abergavenny

Find rabbits, ravens and the stunning song of wood warblers in the Brecon Beacons

Kestrel in flight

Guide to kestrels: how to identify and where to see

A nightingale singing in spring

Nightingales at dawn in Dorset – magical, beautiful and moving

Puffin on the Farne Islands

Wildlife stories

Puffin numbers remain strong on Farne Islands

Red kite in Wales

RSPB ‘overrun’ with reports of illegal bird of prey killings during lockdown