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Two new reports have shed new light on life on earth. The first claims to have found the world's oldest living organism and the second writes off that old phrase... 'there are plenty more fish in the sea'. The Mediteranean Sea is home to a organism that DNA testing dates as being 200,000...

Coots, moorhens, mallard, swans, geese, pigeons, crows, grey herons and even a couple of smew dotted the ice covering Regent's Park's lakes yesterday morning. They all seemed happy enough and some poked their heads under water through holes in the ice. Sometimes I wish I was a bird. That I...

it's childish. Dropping sticks off the side of a bridge and seeing which one passes beneath the fastest. A kids game . Yet it has an innocent charm that Xbox can't match. Sadly, after visiting the Putney Bridge combined sewer overflow (CSO) the other day, I can honestly say the vision of pooh...

As I type I can hear a blue tit outside my back door, which is firmly closed against the cold. The bird is hidden in the dense ivy covering the wall between our garden and the neighbour's. After the mild and mixed-up weather of the beginning of this year, the grey, wet and sleety conditions do...

Taking a Star Trek approach to development is not a good idea, but before the newly announced Thames Airport review even gets started, Mayor Johnson's on the Today programme asserting his belief that it can and will be built. The very real danger to planes and human lives of bird strike posed...

This year's Big Schools' Birdwatch is underway and students across Greater London and the rest of the UK will be peering through their dusty classroom windows to see what birds they can spot enjoying the weak winter sunshine. It's certainly very different from this time last year, when...

The stormy winds have passed, leaving London's gardens looking grey and battered, so let's dream of better days ahead. The RSPB, along with 24 other organisations, want to transform our Capital’s grey spaces into colourful fields where Londoners can feel cool fresh grass between their...

This is going to be the year of the performer! The fastest. The most athletic. The ones that put in the effort to make a difference. I'm talking about volunteers and wildlife. Both actively pursue their goals; whether it's a speedy peregrine falcon diving on its prey over St Paul's cathedral...

No. This isn't a bah humbug moan. I like this time of year. There are lots more birds visiting gardens for people to see and you don't have to get up very early to hear the (winter) dawn chorus. To add some Christmas jollity, MP's have clearly stated that Government plans to nod through...

London zoo, Gorilla area, a fight started out between to adult gorillas there was more noise than anything. It only lasted a few seconds, and no gorillas were hurt in the fight.

Hi all- pic of our visiting turkey is below (Apologies for focusing on the branches rather than the bird!). There's been no sign of her today, looks like it was just a two day stay.

Hallo great British bird-watchers- Just joined the forums here to report an exciting visitor to our back garden- a female turkey! She is looking a bit lost wandering from garden to garden and occasionally flapping up to the tree branches, but mainly staying in our shared, rather unkept patch of grass...

Taken at London Wetlands

Dear Miss Kimbo. Yes, there are peregrines that can be seen around the Barbican and St Paul's area. John B is quite right in saying there are more than 20 breeding pairs now living in Greater London and we're now in to the breeding season. The pair you have seen will be the subject of our...

Is there anyone out there who might be interested in testing their public communication skills? We are looking for a specialist or someone knowledgeable in river wildlife and ecology to accompany us this summer on 4 sunset cruises on the River Thames in the West London area. Anyone who might...

Hello there, I am hoping for a little advice. I have guests arriving from Poland and am hoping to show them our beautiful British countryside. Amongst the group is a keen bird watcher. Is anyone able to suggest/recommend a place to visit in Essex, Kent or Surrey that is easy to get to, where we...

Twice this week I have woken up to find a Blue Tit in my living room. I don't really know how they have got in unless there is a gap around a skylight above the landing. I will arrange for someone to check this out. But in the meantime does anyone have any idea why this might be happening now...

Has anybody seen the Turaco since mid December? Has it disappeared from Leytonstone? Re what the bird is, looking at the great pictures, it looks to my untutored eye like a White Cheeked Turaco. If you haven't already found it, you might like to look at www.turacos.org which is for people in the...

I love London. You never know what you'll see next. This is amazing and a beautiful bird. Stating the obvious, it will be an escaped or released pet. They are naturally found in sub-tropical/tropical forests of Sudan and Ethiopia, at a height of about 2,200 to 3,200 metres. So, the big question...

This was taken on an outing with Surrey Square Infants in Southwark, just off London's Old Kent Road. The class were filmed for the Teachers TV feature on running a school's birdwatch: http://www.teachers.tv/video/36639

Walking home with 2 bags of shopping, in our busy London suburb today the 7th May, I heard it! The high scream of a swift. Looked up and saw just 2 of them - the first of the year. Flittering and speeding across the sky. Hooray! They're back!

I stood examining the train times at Liverpool Street station, amongst the hussle and masses of people rushing past, a Brimstone butterfly fluttered between the crowds, leaping from one to the next, a brimstone ray to brighten busy London

On the morning of 3 Jan, my partner and I were woken up by raucous bird calls, which sounded different to the usual gentle dawn chorus we normally get from our neighbourhood birdlife. Our bird feeders attract quite a variety of birds (and squirrels), so at first we thought it was just some over-enthusiastic...

On the morning of 3 Jan, my partner and I were woken up by raucous bird calls, which sounded different to the usual gentle dawn chorus which we normally get from our neighbourhood birdlife. Our bird feeders attract quite a variety of birds (and squirrels), so at first we thought it was just some over...

Having moved to London recently as a student, I was missing walking and my dog. So I took a walk on Hampstead Heath, on a beautiful crisp morning, and captured this critter among the remaining autumn leaves.

I sat in an all day meeting today on the 30th floor of Canary Wharf. As they stared down at their papers, I looked out of the window to see a peregrine swooping around the building, effortlessly riding the high winds. Best meeting I've had in ages!

Very early one morning, from our urban London flat, heard yipping sounds. Looking out saw 3 half-grown fox cubs playing on the strip of grass under our bedroom window with an adult looking on. Wonderful wake-up call!