To get closer to his feathered neighbors, Adam Nicolson built a treehouse designed for both human and avian habitants.

Us Brits (yes, IFLScience is British) are well-known for our love of animals, and we certainly seem to have a soft spot for our feathery friends that visit our gardens. More than half of British ...

A British bird, once considered so delicious that it was nearly hunted to extinction 500 years ago, is making a comeback. Once widespread in the UK, cranes were heavily hunted until the Elizabethan ...

Evolution works very slowly—except when it doesn’t. New research shows that certain British birds appear to be changing quickly as result of bird feeders, evolving longer beaks to help them access the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GREAT YARMOUTH, England — Garry Bagnell is cruising down an English country road when his beeper lights up with a bulletin. A shorelark — a distinctive bird ...

Climate change may be bad news for billions, but scientists have discovered one unlikely winner -- a tiny British bird, the long-tailed tit. Like other small animals that live for only two or three ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Settled into a comfortable married life in Didsbury, then a leafy part of Manchester, Emily ...

MODERN books about British birds are legion, most of them excellent, yet the most scientific of ornithologists looks back on certain books of his boyhood with a sigh of loving regret. Such, no doubt, ...

Britain on Sunday lifted all restrictions at a duck farm in northern England after last month's outbreak of H5N8 bird flu, the same strain seen in recent cases across Europe. "All restrictions ...

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 694995). Although the permits ...