This North American cousin of the Goldcrest is an extremely rare visitor to our shores, typically crossing the Atlantic after getting caught in fast-moving storms.Following a handful of Western ...

Wilfrid set off in earnest on 1 July, and in just a couple of days had swiftly covered around 800 km (500 miles), making his way from Suffolk to the banks of the Gironde estuary in southwestern France ...

Garden Warbler is one of Britain's most nondescript birds earning it the true moniker of little brown job.A warbler of dense scrub understorey and woodland edge, the Garden Warbler is more often ...

The black and white male, sporting two white spots on the forehead, and the subtle brown and white female are scarce breeders in Britain and rare breeders in Ireland. Wales's Oak woodlands are very ...

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We'll take a walk around RSPB Marwick Head taking in all the sights, sounds (and smells!) of our amazing seabirds. Learn more about identifying them on their colonies, on the sea, and in flight. We'll ...

A rare (less than annual) visitor from its Arctic breeding grounds, the Snowy Owl is probably best known to many as 'Hedwig' from the Harry Potter films.A celebrated pair bred for eight years on the ...

A quintessential sound of the seaside, the beautiful pearly-grey backed and pink-legged Herring Gull is perhaps one of our most familiar. The Herring Gull feeds mainly on marine vertebrates and ...

This is the most marine of our breeding birds and a difficult species to see, visiting its underground nests at night and spending the rest of the time at sea. Leach's Petrel has a more restricted ...

The beautiful, ghostly grey male and the brown, white-rumped female Hen Harrier are birds of wild places, upland moorland in the summer and coastal marshes during the winter. As a breeding bird the ...

With its striking black, white and red plumage, the Great Spotted Woodpecker's characteristic drumming display can be heard in woodlands across all but the most northerly regions of Britain. The ...

The two tone corvid, the Hooded Crow or 'hoodie' was classified by the British Ornithologists' Union as a distinct species in 2002.The Hooded Crow is found in the north and north-west of the UK, where ...