Dunlins are another small wader that flocks to the coast for the winter, flying in from eastern Europe and Russia. We also ...

Members of the public are being urged to report sightings of dead wild birds as part of efforts to track the spread of ...

DNA testing reveals that the wild ancestors of the common domestic and feral pigeons, now extinct in many parts of the world, are still living on islands in Scotland and Ireland. Researchers led by ...

Alastair Ward receives funding from the BBSRC and Defra. But the disease doesn’t only threaten poultry and egg production – it also threatens wild bird populations in a way that it never has before.

Birds are a prominent feature of the new BBC nature documentary Wild Isles, presented by David Attenborough. “We are a nation of bird lovers,” says Chris Howard, one of the show’s producers, “birds ...

Bird flu has been identified in a small number of wild birds in southwest England, Britain's environment department said in a statement on Wednesday.