Wildlife
The Beavers Are Back, and They Have Plans
Reintroduced to British rivers, these engineers are reshaping wetlands faster than anyone predicted.
By Maeve Sullivan
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Wildlife
A Winter With the Starlings
Across Britain and Europe, the murmurations are starting again. Here is where to find the best ones.
By Maeve Sullivan
Wildlife
Why Foxes Have Stopped Being Afraid of Us
Urban foxes are changing physically and behaviourally, and scientists are watching evolution in real time.
By Maeve Sullivan
Wildlife
Otters in the City Centre
Cleaner rivers have brought these shy hunters back to towns that had not seen one in sixty years.
By Maeve Sullivan
Wildlife
The Great Salmon Leap Is On, Just
For a few weeks each autumn, fish fling themselves up waterfalls. Watching it never grows old.
By Maeve Sullivan
Field Notes
Notes From a Very Late Autumn
Leaves that should be down by now are still clinging on. A week of careful observation in a Shropshire wood.
By Maeve Sullivan
Field Notes
A Citizen Scientist's Moth Trap
One light, one sheet and a garden in Kent. What you find when you start paying attention at night.
By Maeve Sullivan
Field Notes
Counting Waders on the Dee Estuary
When the tide turns, the whole sky fills. A morning with the volunteers who keep count.
By Maeve Sullivan
Field Notes
The Last Swallow of the Year
There's always one straggler, and every autumn someone is out with binoculars waiting to see it go.
By Maeve Sullivan
Field Notes
Fungi After Rain
A wet week in a Scottish birch wood produced thirty-eight species and a very happy mycologist.
By Maeve Sullivan
