If blackbirds are regular visitors to your garden, then there's something very important you need to do this winter, experts ...

and supports wildflowers and rare species, including the red-listed corncrake and the Great Yellow Bumblebee, one of the rarest in the UK. The dune pasture, with a high shell content, follows a ...

Wintery weather has resulted in more gees arriving in Britain, a wonderful spectacle when a flock flies overhead.

Two discrete populations of the species are known ... breeders that winter in the UK, and the Svalbard breeders that migrate to the Netherlands and Denmark. The geese of the Norfolk wintering ...

The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans ... The family contains around 146 species in 40 genera. They are generally herbivorous, and are monogamous ...

85% - percentage of the Brent Goose world population that gathers in Strangford Lough in October 2.7km - the height of the Greenland ice cap which the geese have to fly over ...

The researchers added that barnacle geese had shifted their migratory route on their journey from the UK to their breeding ... adapt to climate change. Animal species which are less sociable ...

Eight leading conservation organisations have joined forces to help reverse the decline of vulnerable coastal species in Scotland ... Marty Hay says the geese can go through an acre of crops ...