The figures cover 130 bird species, including turtle doves, corn buntings, willow tits and grey partridges, which have all fallen to less than 10 per cent of the levels in 1970. There were also ...

The corn bunting, known as 'the fat bird of the barley', used to be a familiar sight on British farms and crofts as far north as Shetland. But the nondescript bird, (Miliaria calandra) the largest ...

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve Backshall begins May with the corn bunting. Corn buntings may be plain-looking ...

April 1 (UPI) --A British knitting group said members are working from home to reach their goal of breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest knitted bunting. Deborah Custance Baker ...

The Living World is a gentle weekend natural history programme, presented by Lionel Kelleway, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate encounters with British ... Corn Buntings. The Corn ...

The corn bunting was once a common sight across Scotland Conservationists are calling on farmers in the north east of Scotland to help save the once common corn bunting whose numbers have declined by ...

British songbirds increasing in population ... yellowhammer, linnet, corn bunting, song thrush, meadow pipit and dunnock. Source: RSPB And while there are many factors and landscape changes ...

Changed cropping and intensive production methods mean as few as 800 corn-bunting territories now remain in Scotland, reveal findings published in Bird Study, the journal of the British Trust for ...