February and March are not months when many higher fungi, the ones with a cap and stem, show themselves.
SOS: Save our Swifts by Bethan Nowell
Swifts, swallows and martins may only be with us for a few months each year, but they make a huge impression in that time. However, numbers of all these birds have plummeted in recent decades. Installing nest boxes is a great way to provide these birds with the opportunity to breed and help combat population declines.
Hope for House Sparrows
Saturday 20 March is World Sparrow Day and according to the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), there are reasons to be hopeful for our House Sparrows.
Migration routes of one of Britain’s largest ducks revealed for the first time, but much still remains a mystery
New research, just published in the journal Ringing & Migration, has used state of the art tracking technology to investigate how one of Britain’s largest ducks, the Shelduck, interacts with offshore wind turbines during their migration across the North Sea. Their findings reveal – for the first time – the length, speed and flight heights...