Josh Jones rounds up the best birding action during the week of 17-23 February 2025. A Wallcreeper report had birders' pulses raising as milder air delivered the first spring migrants of the year, ...

June 2025 is fast becoming one for the ages in rarity terms, with the past week seeing no fewer than 20 new rarities unearthed across Britain and Ireland. While scarce overshoots dwindled to a trickle ...

During a settled week of cold, overcast January weather, the month's midpoint had a surprise or two in store. Cornwall was the destination for plenty of British twitchers, while the spectacular ...

Josh Jones rounds up the best birds seen in Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic between 27 January and 2 February 2025. The Dutch Spectacled Eider and English Booted Eagle continued to draw in ...

With the BTO announcing plans for its next Breeding Bird Atlas, our columnist wonders if it is time to move such important ...

A spell of rather settled conditions made for a steady midwinter period that nevertheless had a surprise or two in store. Thursday 12th brought the return of Somerset's adult drake Baikal Teal for a ...

A sensational period of seawatching stole the headlines, including a record Wilson's Storm Petrel count off Scilly and a flurry of megas past Bridges of Ross.

A sprinkling of Waxwings and yet more Swedish Lesser White-fronted Geese headlined the mid-February period.

With the continuing high pressure fixed in position, and the breezy, chilly north-easterly that has dominated most of Britain and Ireland only sometimes abating, the slightly odd – or at least ...

Sam Viles looks back at the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic during the week of 10-16 March 2025. A Dark-breasted Barn Owl was found in Lincolnshire and spring ...

Sam Viles rounds up the best birding action in Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic during the week of 24-30 March 2025. Forster's and White-winged Terns, another Ashy-headed Wagtail and a ...

New rarities were still thin on the ground in a predictably static week as we await the arrival of all our loveable summer migrants. Spring is getting going, though, particularly with Sand Martins; a ...