The Indian Peafowl, will be familiar as an ornamental species, often associated with stately homes, but the free-flying nature and tendency to wander some distance mean that individuals can turn up ...

The Lesser Whitethroat is secretive bird of farmland and reedbed habitats. The distinctive song is a helpful guide to its presence. A warbler with greyish upperparts, white undersides and a large ...

The first of only a handful of accepted records of this species, a corpse found near the Skerryvore lighthouse off Argyll, was initially sent to BTO HQ. It apparently "arrived safely, but had begun to ...

Marsh Tits and Willow Tits probably present one of the more difficult ID challenges in the UK. View our Bird ID video to gain some invaluable tips on key features to tell them apart.

Nest boxes of the same type should not be sited too close together as this may promote aggressive behaviour between neighbours. The front of the nest box should be angled vertically or slightly ...

Avian pox is caused by a virus, and sporadic cases of the disease are observed each year in British garden birds. Please note: avian pox is a different disease from avian influenza. Great Tit with ...

Much larger than our Kingfisher this extremely rare visitor from North America has a grey (male) or russet (female) breast band. Like our Kingfisher, the Belted Kingfisher nests in a burrow it ...

A rare visitor from Southern Europe, this species is a brood parasite. Unlike our Common Cuckoo, however, the female Great Spotted Cuckoo will lay up to five eggs in a single nest.

An extremely rare autumn visitor, even rarer than Yellow-billed Cuckoo, this species has undergone a significant decline within its restricted North American breeding range. Black-billed Cuckoos eat ...

Looking a bit like a greenish Garden Warbler, this is an extremely rare visitor from the woodlands of southern Canada, brought here by autumn storms. The first Irish record – and first for the Western ...

Red-footed Falcon is a vagrant to Britain & Ireland, reported annually but in varying numbers. With a breeding range that extends from Estonia, Slovakia and Hungary east to north-west China, this is a ...

An extremely rare visitor from eastern Siberia, this smart falcon normally winters in south-east Africa The first British record of this species involved an individual that was, for several weeks, mis ...