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Birds

July 2024

  • Herring gull chicks.

    Herring gull chicks would rather have fish than your chips, finds study

  • Tim Blackburn

    Britain has been invaded by parakeets – and it’s got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix

    Tim Blackburn
  • Two lesser black-backed gulls standing on a grassy patch facing opposite directions

    Birdwatch
    Birdwatch at the cricket: wagtails, falcons and gulls – but no ducks

  • Kestrel fledgling at the arrow slit

    Country diary
    Country diary: A young kestrel wings its way into the world

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1924: birds of a feather work together

  • The Audio Long Read
    Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies – podcast

  • King Charles ruffles feathers as he drops royal patronage for pigeon racing

  • Rewilding plan aims to bring majestic white storks to London

  • The age of extinction
    ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors – in pictures

  • Pass notes
    XL gullies: how birds ‘as big as turkeys’ took over Britain

  • Blackbird numbers plummet in south of England amid potential spread of virus

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A family ritual, a familiar route

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A new perspective on an old haunt

June 2024

  • Steve Backshall for Observer Magazine Photographed at his home in Cookham

    Sunday with Steve Backshall: ‘The kids’ capacity to consume pancakes blows my mind’

  • A hedgehog inside a clay drainage pipe surrounded by colourful flowering plants

    Build a hedgehog highway! 33 ways to welcome more wildlife into your garden

  • A sign in tropical jungle that reads in English: "This is a protected area. Entry is barred by law"

    The age of extinction
    Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

  • River Roding, Barking, London

    Country diary
    Country diary: A night on the whispering saltmarshes of the capital

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1974: birdwatching in Mallorca

  • Young country diary
    Young country diary: Total eclipse of the duck

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