How to tell tricky bird species apart

Blink and you’ll miss it! Sparrowhawks, peregrine falcons and goshawks are all very fast-moving birds, so identifying them can be a challenge.

Meet two brightly coloured finches that can be difficult to tell apart, siskins and greenfinches.

Winter can see birds flocking in huge numbers. One winter visitor that loves a crowd is the brambling - but can you tell them apart from the chaffinches they often are with?

Most crows may not have the brightest plumage in the world, but when it comes to brain power, they’re some of the smartest animals on the planet.

They’re often dismissed as ‘little brown jobs’ but they’re far from boring, with smart plumage and fascinating social lives.

This article is about tits. Yes, have a giggle, get it out your system, because we’re going to be using the word a lot...

There are dozens of species of thrush found all over the world, and six that can be seen in the UK.

Get to know two very similar water birds. Two birds that betray an evolutionary link to dinosaurs more obviously than other birds are cormorants and shags.

In the hullabaloo of spring birdsong, it’s surprisingly easy to mix up that distant cuck-coo with the cooing call of two much more common and familiar birds: the woodpigeon and the collared dove.

Swirling high in the blue skies, screeching wildly. Dark-winged creatures darting low over fields. Others chirruping softly as they flutter to and fro on the warm breeze. But which bird is it?

Visit the coast or an inland lake during the warmer months and you may well be rewarded by the sight of some of our more elegant seabirds.

Our spring dawn chorus gets a tuneful boost each year from migrant warblers, but while their songs are unique, some of them look frustratingly similar.