BBC Wildlife Magazine

BBC Wildlife Magazine is a celebration of the natural world, featuring all the latest discoveries, news and views on wildlife, conservation and environmental issues. With strong broadcasting links, authoritative journalism and award-winning photography, BBC Wildlife Magazine is essential reading for anyone with a passion for wildlife who wants to understand, experience and enjoy nature more.

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wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow • Ptarmigan stay cosy when the weather outside is frightful

Bucking the trend • Brown trout choose to breed in cold rivers during winter

New species of shrew in Sunderland • Greater white-toothed shrew discovery is a first for mainland UK

One egg or two? • The extreme reproductive strategy of the ‘forgotten penguins’

Approach with care • This month, go heron watching – but try not to be seen

Twigs and buds are on display • On winter walks, take the opportunity to see trees in a different light

ORIGIN OF PIECES • A scorpion’s pectines

GILLIAN BURKE • “The experience left me feeling both elated and conflicted”

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT

10 deadly plants • There is an astonishing amount of toxicity in the plant kingdom

Mark Wright • Director of science at WWF on the Living Planet Report 2022 and what it means for wildlife

Best friends forever • Chimpanzees and gorillas can make lasting friendships with each other, reports iScience

Principe scops-owl

Lost & Found • Lang’s short-tailed blue, Berkshire

LOOK HOW THEY SHINE FOR YOU

Seals have a sence of rhythm • Study reveals similarities between harbour seals and human babies

COLLECTIVE NOUNS • A cast of hawks

Moving on up • Usually a loner, the mouse-like treecreeper joins flocks of tits in winter

Foxes outfoxed

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke on Hawaii’s seabirds pairing up with the same sex

Explore a shore • Visit a beach to search for a marine voyager that has lost its way

POO CORNER • Polar bear

MARK CARWARDINE • “The future of the Amazon really did rest on this election”

Finger food • Scientists may have discovered the mysterious purpose behind the aye-aye’s long digit

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COLD AS ICE • A mayfly larva that thrives during frozen winters using a handy metabolic trick

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60 FAVOURITE WILDLIFE HOTSPOTS • To celebrate our 60th birthday, we have a tempting round-up of special places to visit around the UK

Blakeney Point

Goredale Scar

New Forest

Dartmoor

Scaur Glen

Lundy

River Chet

Chanonry Point

Ham Wall

Frays Farm Meadows

Middleton Lakes

Bass Rock

Chew Valley Lake

Jurassic Coast

Strathspey Forest

Skokholm Island

Knepp Estate

Avon Gorge

Causeway Coast

St Catherine’s Hill

Great North Wood

Canvey Wick

Isles of Scilly

Briddlesford Woods

Farne Islands

Rutland Water

Brasenose Wood

Dungeness

Wimbledon Common

Foxley Wood

Isle Martin

Barton Hills

Isle of...