[Thursday 20 November 2008]

A new website has been launched that allows nature lovers to record their bird and wildlife sightings directly onto maps of north-east England.

[Tuesday 18 November 2008]

Scientists working on micro air vehicles (MAVs) have developed a robotic hummingbird to study the dynamics of hovering.

[Friday 14 November 2008]

The RSPB has expressed dismay at EU plans to sever the link between Common Agricultural Policy payments and wildlife protection laws.

[Thursday November 13 2008]

The RSPB has asked the public to lend their support to a campaign against the Planning Bill, saying it is their last chance to avoid losing their voice on environmentally damaging developments.

[Monday 10 November 2008]

A pair of Whooper Swans have flown into Martin Mere WWT with a record number of nine cygnets.

[Monday 10 November 2008]

The government is not doing enough to protect threatened wildlife in England and the UK Overseas Territories, warns the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today. This warning has been echoed by the RSPB, Europe’s largest wildlife conservation charity.

[Friday 7 November 2008]

A project to remove rats from Lundy has seen numbers of the burrow-nesting seabird it set out to save more than triple.

[Thursday 6th November]

The government has revealed that the populations of some countryside birds fell last year to their lowest levels since 1970. On 31 October DEFRA published data revealing further declines in the overall numbers of farmland birds across both England and the wider UK.

[Wednesday 5 November 2008]

The world record for the number of bird species seen in one year has been broken by two birders from north Wales.

[Tuesday 4 October 2008]

Controversial plans to develop a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, into “the world’s best golf course” have been given the go-ahead by the Scottish Government.

 [Monday 3 November 2008]

The Bolivian conservation organisation Asociación Armonía, with the support of the American Bird Conservancy and the World Land Trust (US), has created the world’s first protected area for Blue-throated Macaw, a Critically Endangered species whose population is estimated at just 300 birds.

[Sunday 2 November 2008]
The Eagle Owl deserves a place on the British Ornithologists' Union's 'full' list of bird species, according to the results of the latest online poll conducted by Birdwatch.

[Saturday 1 November 2008]
The endangered Wetar Ground-dove, one of the world’s least known birds, has been rediscovered on the island after which it is named, says UK charity Columbidae Conservation.

[Friday 31 October 2008]
A record number of bird species bred at Minsmere, Suffolk this year, despite a poor breeding season for some species, reports the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

[Friday 31 October 2008]
The Harapan Rainforest project in Sumatra will be having a visit from HRH The Prince of Wales this Sunday. He will see how logged rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is being protected and restored.

[Thursday 30 October 2008]
Seabirds breeding in the far north of the UK have had one of their worst ever breeding season’s according to figures released by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

[Tuesday 28 October 2008]
The 2008 Nestbox Challenge, organised by the British Trust for Ornithology, supported by BBC Breathing Spaces, was a huge success this year with thousands of new nestboxes added.

[Monday 27 October 2008]
Some of the world’s rarest birds have been found poisoned in a remote area of the Jordanian desert hundreds of miles from their breeding grounds in south-eastern Turkey.

[Friday 24 October 2008]
As the clocks change from British Summer Time, bringing darker evenings and the prospect of frosts, so it is time to think about feeding birds again, says the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

[Thursday 23 October 2008]
The second winter fieldwork for the Bird Atlas Project begins on 1 November and the British Trust for Ornithology is appealing for help from Britain and Ireland’s birders to plug the gaps.