However, experts have revealed that some suet products contain less-than-desirable ingredients, such as chalk, which can be very harmful to birds. Here’s everything you need to look out for, as well ...

A man from North Yorkshire has been fined for beating a protected wild bird to death. Thomas Munday, 35, was sentenced ...

A council’s plan to rid a city market of nuisance birds with a hawk is being scuppered by residents feeding the pigeons.

08:14, Mon, Jan 5, 2026 Updated: 08:22, Mon, Jan 5, 2026 A white-throated needletail has been observed at Tophill Low nature reserve in East Yorkshire, representing the first verified encounter with ...

Avian influenza and bluetongue disease have continued to spread over the festive period, despite the existence of mandatory housing orders for poultry and the sharp drop in temperatures minimising ...

IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

With their passion for pecking at plants and acidic droppings, pigeons don’t have the best reputation in our gardens as it is. To make matters worse, they often ransack the bird feeders, leaving no ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A bird flu outbreak has sparked a mass cull of poultry at a third farm near Dereham - bringing Norfolk's total to 13 cases of the devastating virus this winter. The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of ...

A Scots poultry farm - believed to be one of the biggest in Europe - has reported a bird flu outbreak. Glenrath Farms' Whim Poultry Farm, outside West Linton, near Peebles, Borders, has introduced a ...

Business lobby survey finds firms ‘put brakes on key spending decisions’ before autumn budget Heather Ste wart: Four reasons to be cheerful about UK plc in 2026 Wes Streeting urges closer EU trading ...