Wildlife watching in the West Midlands
County by county
Recent West Midlands news
- New competition launched for films about Britain’s natural world
- Fox stuck with head in a watering can for several days
- Regional differences in UK butterfly count
- Rare bumblebee spreads its wings
- British kids clueless when it comes to nature – the shocking results of TV survey
- Rare butterfly makes Worcestershire comeback
- 2.5 years in jail for smuggling peregrine eggs
- Rare Bechsteins’s bats found in Worcestershire woodlands
- Plea for public help in tracking down rare UK butterfly
- Caught on camera: a sssssurprise visitor to Brandon Marsh
- Marine conservation zone map needs your input
- Adders will go to great lengths to find a mate
- Keeping track of invading tree bee
- Tawny owl tangled in fishing line put down
- Slavonian grebe spotted at Worcestershire reserve
More West Midlands news
- Worcester Wildlife Trust buys rare flower meadows
- Once thought extinct hoverfly discovered in Forest of Dean
- 527 acres of Clee Hills bought by Shropshire Wildlife Trust
- Worcestershire butterfly reserve to undergo ‘drastic’ improvement
- 13,400 species on RSPB reserves – Less than 3% are birds
- Red kites spreading into England from Wales
- Appeal launched to buy rare wildflower meadows in Worcestershire
- Huge increase in butterfly numbers on Worcestershire reserve
- Brown hairstreak butterflies found on 6 Worcestershire reserves
- Wood white butterfly gets extra protection in Herefordshire
- Otters thriving in the UK - Now in every county
- Oystercatchers in Herefordshire
- Major new project launch to save rare Small blue butterfly
- RSPB launches summer garden wildlife survey – Not just birds
- Ecologist goes underground in hunt for one of UK's largest spiders
Giant 'extinct' British Beetle found in GloucestershireAn amazing giant insect, thought to be extinct in the UK, has been discovered on a pavement in Gloucestershire.
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Bird crime stats jump 40%July 2008. Reported crimes against birds of prey escalated to an unwelcome record in 2007, increasing by 40 per cent on 2006.
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