These five birds face a variety of reasons why they are widely considered the rarest birds on the planet. Many factors, including climate change, deforestation, or just being sneaky, have helped ...

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James T. Tanner The ivory-billed woodpecker is one of the most extraordinary birds ever to live in America’s forests: the biggest woodpecker in the United States, it seems to keep coming back ...

Ornithologist David Darrell-Lambert tells Jo and Simon the bird he would love to spot. More episodes Programme Website ...

A rare male Hen Harrier, one of Britain’s most elusive birds of prey, stunned birdwatchers at Wallasea Island in Essex. Gliding silently across the marshes, it put up a breath-taking display. A male ...

Since the late 1990s I have been at the centre of the project to bring these incredibly rare birds back to the wild after they went extinct in Europe 400 years ago. As you see in the Planet Earth ...

To show viewers something new, the production team utilised the latest technology and best scientific knowledge to capture some of the rarest bird behaviour in the UK. They filmed elusive tree ...

In Suffolk we are spoilt with a wide selection of parks and nature reserves, with some having the rarest and hardest to spot birds in the country. Some of the rarest birds are permanent residents in ...

nesting in reeds at the water's edge Water sports enthusiasts could be asked not to use part of a Scottish loch under proposals to protect a rare species of bird. They could be discouraged from ...