The African Jacana is monotypic and hails from the family Jacanidae which consists six genera and eight species. These unusual wading birds are identified by their long legs and extremely long slim ...

The Tufted Duck is the UK’s most common diving duck and a familiar sight on lakes and ponds across the country. Known for their long, hair-like tufts, these small waterfowl are fairly easy to identify ...

As well as its distinctive ear tufts, perhaps the most striking feature of a long-eared owl are its piercing bright orange eyes. However, as the UKs most nocturnal owl species, its rare that they are ...

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One of the UK’s most abundant woodland birds, the Great Tit is a common and colourful visitor to garden bird feeders. The Great Tit is a small bird with a black head and a prominent white cheek patch.

Europe’s smallest eagle, the booted eagle, otherwise known as the Booted Hawk Eagle, prefers the warmer climes of southern Europe and south central Asia and whilst not threatened globally, its ...

What do Mistle Thrushes look like? Although mistle thrushes are superficially similar to their more common relative the song thrush, there are some subtle differences between the two species. Mistle ...

This large bird arrives on our shores from Iceland to overwinter in late September, returning northwards to breed from mid March onwards. The whooper swan is a very large bird, in fact one of the ...

Although the pink-footed goose does not breed in Britain, it is a common winter visitor, with over half a million migrating individuals arriving each autumn from breeding grounds in Iceland, Greenland ...

A rare breeding bird in Britain, found mainly in pine forests in the Scottish Highlands, the parrot crossbill is both the rarest and the largest of the three crossbill species found in the UK. Similar ...

What do Red-breasted Mergansers look like? Red-breasted Mergansers are distinctive wildfowl with narrow, serrated bills and spiky crests. Breeding males are attractively patterned with a bright red ...

Bird migration has captured our imagination throughout history, although a solid understanding of avian movements has remained elusive until relatively recently. Modern science and technology have ...