My bird of the month for May, the whimbrel, is appropriately enough sometimes called the ‘May Bird’. This is because May is the month most of us encounter this migratory wader as it stops off at coastal sites on the way to its breeding grounds further north. Similar to curlews, but with a few tell-tale …
September is one of my favourite months because it means that our wintering wader numbers are really starting to build up. Birds that breed in the UK are joined by many more individuals from further north, filling our estuaries and saltmarshes with their bustling figures and plaintive cries. One of the most visible, and audible, …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. It is easy to assume that most non-humans conform to a basic breeding model. Boys court girl, most impressive boy wins girl, he passes on his genes and then he may or may not stick around …