Keeping your little ones entertained over the February half term holidays is easy with lots of wild adventures at the RSPB Leighton Moss nature reserve in Silverdale. Get yourself and your children out in to the fresh air by coming along to one of our family events.

A new report issued by the Lincolnshire Bird Club celebrates the success of many of the county's bird species. The Lincolnshire Bird Report is an assessment of the state of Lincolnshire's birds during 2008 in comparison to other years.

One of the Suffolk's most threatened mammals, the otter, has suffered a setback as it slowly re-colonises the county, with the discovery of two dead otters in Snape since September.

Wildlife Minister Huw Irranca Davies has today accepted a petition signed by more than 200,000 people demanding an end to the killing of birds of prey.

Wetlands, one of the most important habitats for plants and wildlife but also one of the most threatened ecosystems on earth, is celebrated in Shropshire today on World Wetlands Day through the launch of a new project.

Scientists are finding that environmental contaminants are still a potential threat to Ospreys in the Chesapeake Bay which is home to their world's largest nesting population -- over 2000 pairs. Barnett Rattner and his U.S. Geological Survey coworkers examined Osprey eggs in the bay for DDT and found while DDT and its metabolites were at less than half the levels reported in the 1960s and '70s, total organochlorine concentrations in eggs were only slightly lower.

Field assistants needed to study birds in the Washington, D.C. area.

Every once in a while, an interesting bird shows up in our backyards, something that makes us take a second look.

Smithsonian Migratory Bird Club members are invited to attend bird-themed lectures.

In two separate cases, oil giant ExxonMobil and PacificCorp, a major electric utility, recently pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other migratory birds, and will pay fines that will be used to support a wildlife rehabilitation center in Colorado, and to fund raptor research and conservation projects in Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Montana.

States and Communities Tackle Light Pollution Harmful to Migratory Birds Communities are starting to attack the problem of light pollution, which is harmful to migratory birds, through voluntary programs and also through legislation. Inspired by Audubon Minnesota's voluntary Lights Out program, the state of Minnesota recently enacted a law requiring all state-owned and leased buildings (totaling more than 5,000) to turn off their lights after midnight during spring and fall migration seasons.

A superior court judge has ruled in favor of a coalition of conservation groups, including American Bird Conservancy (ABC), to halt the controversial practice of Trap, Neuter, and Release (TNR) of feral cats in the City of Los Angeles, pending environmental review.

Help us locate winter hot spots of this declining bird.

Field assistants needed to study climate change's effect on birds in New Hampshire.