From the BBC Wildlife Archive

FROM THE BBC WILDLIFE ARCHIVE: Spring 2016 Born Free Meru National Park has been associated with lions since George Adamson and his wife Joy raised an orphaned cub called Elsa to adulthood, and successfully released her back into the wild. Joy wrote about Elsa in her book Born Free, which was made into an Oscar-winning […]

Loud and proud

Secretive corncrakes with a scraping call arrive in the UK this month Tweet of the Day An extended version featuring the corncrake IN APRIL, RARE CORNCRAKES RETURN FROM their wintering grounds in Africa. Once known as land rails, these streaky, moorhen-like birds like to creep through dense meadow vegetation, which makes them infuriatingly difficult to […]