One is referred to in some parts as a "brown budgie", the other is the closest Britain will get to a bird of paradise. But both feature in a national survey of our garden birds. The house sparrow ...

As we enter March and the weather warms, you will notice a greater volume of birds flitting about your garden. Popular British birds like robins and sparrows will be poking their beaks into feeders, ...

March is finally here and with the warmer spring weather, garden birds like robins and sparrows have been spotted flocking back to bird feeders, tree banches and bird tables in strong numbers over the ...

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Sitting quietly in her garden one morning in 2017, the American author Amy Tan had an up-close encounter with an Anna’s hummingbird. “It’s the smallest bird in my yard, but it’s also very fast and ...

Old names for the Wryneck include ‘twister’, ‘writhe neck’ and ‘snake bird’. These names recognise the Wryneck’s remarkable ...

A rare bird was seen perched in a tree on the Norfolk coast. The red-backed shrike was spotted in Thornham, around four miles ...

Artist Tracey Emin could take her bronze sparrow away from Liverpool if anyone else "borrows" the sculpture. The 4in (10cm) sparrow, which sits on a 13ft (4m) pole beside the oratory at the Anglican ...