Wading into autumn
For many birdwatchers things are just hotting up! We might have reached the end of summer, but this is when a group of birds known as waders start to appear on our shores. Here are ten waders to…
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Identify birds of prey
The UK is home to a variety of birds of prey - predatory birds equipped with sharp talons and hooked bills. This page will help you identify common birds of prey as well as some rarer species.
Identify garden birds
Can you spot Britain's top ten garden birds in your garden? Find out how to identify common garden birds and how you can attract birds to your garden.
Team Wilder Birds
there are many ways to take action for nature and support birds in your garden, community and local green spaces. Bird feeders, bird baths, bird boxes, native spikey hedges and tress all provide food and shelter for UK birds.
Feeding the birds in winter
Attracting birds to your garden and local spaces is easy. Read on for tried and tested local advice to encourage birds where you live. Stephanie in BS9 puts out suet or fat balls in the winter,…
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Discover our nature reserves across Avon and explore the region's landscapes. See different types of wildlife through the seasons. Find out about urban nature thriving in our cities. Learn about wildlife if you're a family, a teacher, or someone interested in wildlife knowledge. Find out about our work with schools and our learning programme. Explore ways to connect with nature and improve your wellbeing. Find out about our wellbeing through nature courses.
Winter Birds
This year nature helped many of us through the most uncertain and unprecedented times. As we enter winter, the days are shorter, darker and wetter, but nature is still there for us, and there is…
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.
Twelve birds of Christmas
Discover some wonderful winter wildlife as part of 12 Days Wild
Where have the birds gone?
After a busy spring of singing their hearts out, building nests and raising a brood or more of hungry chicks, summer can be a quiet time for birds. Looking out your window at your garden bird…
Learning about Winter Birds ID with Avon Wildlife Trust
“Robin”, “blue tit”, “crow” – those are the easy ones, but what happens when the children in our lives point at a brown-coloured duck and ask us, “what’s that one?”.
Birds of Prey - Call of the Wild
A large grey bird flies over my neighbour’s house. “It’s just a pigeon” I think to myself and turn away before something clicks, and I snap my head back. It’s not a pigeon, but a pigeon killer. A…