There have been only a handful of sightings of the nightjar in Northern Ireland since the 1950s.

Life is punctuated by the chatter of birds — be it the cries of a flock of geese migrating south, a pigeon warbling just outside a cityscape window, or a crow cawing high above the treetops. But this ...

The latest State of the World’s Birds report, published this week, paints the most concerning picture yet of the future of avian species and, by extension, all life on Earth. Nearly half of all bird ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland on Wednesday imposed a mandatory country-wide housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from November. 10, following the first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 ...

A blackcap is about the size of a robin. They can be very aggressive at a bird table. Males have a neat jet-black cap and a cold brown-grey body with a pale throat, vent, and undertail coverts.

The international swan census takes place this weekend, with volunteers helping count whooper and Bewick’s swans ...

For a few weeks every year coming into the colder weather, the skies over Ireland are extraordinarily busy, writes Jack Morley.

The HSE has issued a new warning over bird flu in Ireland, urging the public to avoid handling sick or dead wild birds as cases continue to rise across the country. Officials say the highly pathogenic ...

Legal orders requiring poultry to be kept in secure buildings remain in place despite the declaration of ‘disease freedom’ ...

A new bird flu prevention zone is to be implemented across Northern Ireland, imposing stringent biosecurity measures on all bird keepers from Saturday 1 November. The legal requirement will affect ...