Birds

Two pigeons were found dead with swastikas carved on their chests in a riverside town in Cambridgeshire - Credit: Adobe

Swastikas carved into dead pigeons - two arrested

Dame Esther Rantzen believes BBC buildings may have caused lung cancer

This morning eagle-eyed Twitter users have noticed the change on the social media platform

Elon Musk reveals new Twitter ‘X’ logo as iconic bird scrapped

Chester Zoo is hiring a zookeeper to look after penguins & parrots - how to apply

Chester Zoo is hiring a zookeeper to look after penguins

A skylark nest with chicks awaiting food. (Pic credit: Glyn Kirk / AFP via Getty Images)

What do I do if I find a baby bird? Wildlife and nature experts issue advice

A pair of blue tits on a nest box. Picture: iStock/PA

Webcams, binoculars and camouflage netting: Top tools to view garden wildlife

Birdsong: The cuckoo makes an instantly recognisable sound that matches its name. (Picture: PA WIRE).

What's the name of the game when it comes to birds?

PCSO Bryan Tongue demonstrates how pole traps work

How Operation Owl is hunting the killers of North Yorkshire's birds of prey

Veronica Bird, who spent 35 years working in the Prison Service.

From Myra Hindley to Charles Bronson, former prison governor Veronica Bird on he...

A desert wheatear at Bempton Cliffs, pictured by Michael Ashforth.

Busy start to the birdwatching year

On the Trans Pennine Trail

Weekend Walk: Upper Don Valley

The village of Conistone

Weekend Walk. Conistone Dib

Looking south from Leck Fell

Weekend Walk: Leck Fell & Gragareth

Sulphur clover, one of the top ten most threatened plant species, according to conservation charity Plantlife. Picture by Andrew Gagg/Plantlife/PA Wire.

Protect roadsides to save precious plants, councils urged

A puffin at Bempton Cliffs RSPB reserve

A quarter of UK birds under threat as curlew joins red list

Looking up the Aire Valley from the route to Rodley Nature Reserve

Weekend Walk: Kirkstall Forge & Bramley Fall Wood

The far-reaching song of the mistle thrush can bring a touch of cheer on the greyest of days. Picture: RSPB

Birdwatch: Birds are finding their voice again as spring approaches

Looking across Kingsdale to Whernside

Weekend Walk: Turbary Road & Kingsdale

Silsden and the edge of Rombalds.

Weekend Walk: Silsden Circular

Slaithwaite Looking back across Slaithwaite.

Weekend Walk: Slaithwaite Circular

Buyers and sellers attend the Dressed Poultry Christmas Poultry Sale at York Auction Centre. Pic: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Birds under the hammer at York's festive sale
Families looking to snap up the centrepiece for their Christmas dinner tables were spoilt for choice at a grand sale of poultry in North Yorkshire.

A sign warning of avian flu

Dangerous strain of bird flu is found in Lincolnshire

The trig point on Baildon Hill

Weekend Walk: Baildon Moor

A group of dotterels has been spotted on Danby Beacon in the North York Moors National Park. Picture: Steve Race.

Birdwatch: Party time for pretty species headed for remote mountains

Weekend Walk

Strensall Common

Weekend Walk: Strensall Common

Food for thought: Ellie Tutt and Neve Lenners show onions easily thrive in Yorkshire soil .

Know your onions

Goldfinches visit a bird feeder. Pic: Bill Gibson.

Country & Coast: Birds may need our help but they won’t share my cheese

The home of Lisa Slater in Hebden Bridge

Inside the doll’s house

Choughs photographed by Robert Fuller

Choughs provide a fun days’ viewing on Welsh coast

A seagull awaits visitors on Whitby's pier.

They’ve had their chips: Scarborough fights back against seagulls

Guelder rose, one of the many names of Viburnum opulus. Picture: Terry Jolly

Not such a tasty treat

Amelanchier

May flowers that bring the joys of spring
Amelanchier: The serviceberry may be more chorus line than star but still deserves a place in the limelight says David Overend.

Jamie and Juliet Gutch

Studio with a bird’s eye view

Beatboxer Jason Singh has vocally recreated the nation's best-known songbirds

Birds and the beats are making tweet music

Bethany Poulter, 8, from York, admires the golden daffodils in the grounds of Beningbrough Hall near York.

Sun puts a smile on region’s faces

Flora for fauna

Birds flock to countryside as mild winter leaves rich pickings

Hope in the battle to save the turtle dove

Blue tits bathing in garden bird bath

Give your garden wildlife a helping hand

My View - Jane Lovering: Eye-to-beak with one of nature’s smartest birds

Golden plover teasing worms and Puffins, below.

Icy blast takes toll as birds battle to find food

Stately home dusts off treasures from its shelves for World Book Day celebration...

Birds spotted flocking to the aid of another

Birds say it with flowers

Wall of death mystery for flying geese

Birds are ‘not at risk from wind turbine’

Birds may be scarce in gardens as mild weather opens up countryside

Snowdrops and daffs coming out as nature thinks it’s spring

Birds of no feather, flock together

Ian McMillan: Warm words from a multi-layered performer

Count, feed and save a species

Video: Rare Picasso turns up at Harrogate antiques fair

Birds revealed as high fliers in the art of home building

A close eye for life on the edge

Birdwatch: Where have all the nightingales gone?

Welcome deterrent

Turtles have problem of longitude licked

Boxing clever to give birds a fresh start

Back from the brink

Game for a change and a taste of something new