As a self-professed nature nerd, I’ve become accustomed to common names for plants being misleading. Rose of Sharon, for instance, is not a rose but a hibiscus. It follows that names for animals may ...

The majority of British robins don’t migrate in the winter - Sloot Gardening during the winter is an altogether different experience compared to the summer. Throughout the warmer months you become ...

Robins are now building nests in gardens across the UK, but there's one gardening task you should avoid if you want to see the red-breasted birds in your outdoor space.

Unlike foxes and cats, robins are a welcome sight in British gardens. With much of the natural world in hibernation, seeing these delightful little birds is especially exciting in the dead of winter.

Beneath that jolly red breast hides an edgy temperament: robins are fiercely territorial, making them feisty at best and aggressively combative at worst. What makes them see red?

Robins are one of the most iconic British birds, but they can struggle to find food when the ground freezes in winter ...

We are fortunate to have many beautiful British birds throughout the country. Some visit our gardens, others are found only ...

Even amid the dead of winter, it's always a cheery sight to see birds visit the garden. Much of nature will be hibernating, but robins, wrens, sparrows and blackbirds are a few British garden birds ...

The European robin and Turtle dove have had their genetic codes sequenced and assembled for the first time by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators. The genomes, ...