In praise of pigeons
It’s time we learned to love our common garden visitor
Poo corner
Eurasian beaver
Mark Carwardine
“De-extinction is fraught with serious ethical and practical dilemmas”
Orcas work together to attack great whites
New video footage reveals these supreme hunters taking down the largest predatory fish on Earth
From the BBC Wildlife Archive
Gems from the December 1979 issue
Alliance Trust
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Mike Dilger’s wildlife spectacles: Little by little
Noisy flocks of emerald-green birds are becoming an increasingly common sight in the UK
COUNTRY FILE
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Nick Baker’s Hidden Britain: Rags to riches
In muddy estuaries live secretive worms with special ways of pulling edible morsels into their lairs
Lift off!
In the forests of Hokkaido, Japan, lives a small, cute, furry mammal with a superpower: it’s the Ezo flying squirrel