News, features and updates from the RSPB

We have never been more aware of how important nature is to our health and wellbeing with many of us turning to it for support, or just a change of scene, over the last two years.

10 million hours! That’s the estimated time that members of the public have spent counting garden birds since the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch first launched in 1979, with over a million taking part in 2021, making it the world’s largest wildlife survey.

It’s a brand new year! But what will it bring? Maybe you fancy a sneak or a spy, or possibly to shout – not at the birds, but for the birds. Here are our ten recommended things to do in ‘22 for nature, and for you. 

The thoughts, opinions and ideas of young people from across the globe were a vital part of COP26. The RSPB sent three exciting youth voices along to listen, discuss, shout and inform on the subjects which really matter to them.

Not everyone has an encyclopaedic knowledge of birdlife and even keen birders may not have gotten into their stride before adulthood. But most of us are taught at a young age how to identify a robin.

When the icy grip of winter takes hold, us humans have a lot in common with wildlife. Some choose to jet off to warmer climes, like South Africa, Namibia or Benidorm. Others bunker down in their favourite spot, such as a compost heap, an old mouse burrow or the lounge.

We bet our wardens’ top tips on staying warm and their favourite winter nature spectacles will motivate you to get outside.

You can become a steward of your garden this winter and help protect your feathered guests. The key things birds will need to make it through to spring are food, water and shelter.

Soaring to the moon, hibernating under rivers or flying off to do battle against goat riding men: our ancestors had some pretty impressive theories on bird migration. Here are our top eight wild migration myths... in order of weirdness.

An unprecedented outbreak of Avian Flu has killed thousands of wild birds on the Solway Coast, on the border of England and Scotland.

Putting on on a festive spread for your wild neighbours is a lovely way to spread glad tidings. Here's what to lay out for the birds this Christmas. 

Four years ago, an ambitious conservation project, Back from the Brink, undertook to save the willow tit. Here we find out what they learned!