An apple a day

Apple season means a nutritional bonanza for all manner of species

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New home Thirty-seven juvenile white storks were released at the Knepp Estate, West Sussex, in August, after being hatched at Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens and Kent’s Wildwood Trust earlier in the summer. The White Stork Project aims to restore a population of at least 50 breeding pairs in southern England by 2030 through a […]

Female of the species

Lucy Cooke on the creative conjugal affairs of a hedgerow songbird

Wandering warblers

The Siberian songbirds getting lost en route south

Poo corner

ID GUIDE Water vole Water vole droppings are found grouped together in latrines, which they use to mark their territories, and measure 8-12mm long. They can be confused with rat poo, but have blunt ends and are green-black in colour whereas rat droppings are larger, smelly and brown-black in colour. “Water vole droppings are odourless, […]

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As the moth flies

The impressive navigation strategies of migrating death’s-head hawkmoths rival those of birds

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