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.

How to make your garden wildlife-friendly

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Wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Battle of the birds • A jay puts up a fight when it finds itself in the sight lines of a sparrowhawk

Appearances can be deceiving • The gypsy cuckoo bumblebee is a trickster and nest invader

Whiskers help bats hover like hummingbirds • While hovering at nectar-bearing plants, bats use whiskers for fine control of both body and tongue

Something in the water • The downward trend in shark attacks may be good news for swimmers but is it bad news for sharks?

Call of the wildflower • Ground ivy, the plant that creates a big buzz in spring

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Leverets are out in the open • Brown hares come into the world surprisingly ready for action

ORIGIN OF PIECES AN ANATOMICAL MISCELLANY • A centipede’s jaws

GILLIAN BURKE • “Our beloved bees are caught up in the interests of the sugar industry”

Wild TIMES

10 unusual animals • Creatures with a notable appearance that in some cases have achieved internet fame

Ancient antlers

Marcelo Oliveira • Senior programme specialist at WWF Brazil on jaguar conservation in the Amazon

Wetlands go lead-free • Law to save millions of wildfowl comes into effect as the use of lead gunshot is banned across EU countries

DiCaprio’s snail-eating snake

Mummy’s boys

Lost & Found VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY • American herring gull, Cornwall

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS

Fitting right in

Here’s looking at you, fish • Cleaner fish recognise their own faces in ways that show a sense of self

COLLECTIVE NOUNS WHAT’S IN A NAME? • A pack of stoats

The power of green • Seek out vibrant beech foliage to boost your wellbeing

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES GREATER SAGE-GROUSE • Lucy Cooke on a bird busting myths of female passivity

Family trees • Listen out for the lilting song of the pied flycatcher in the woods

POO CORNER ID GUIDE • Pallas’s cat

MARK CARWARDINE OPINION • “As grey wolf numbers increase, there is a rising tide of hostility”

HS2 in firing line for wildlife impact • Conservationists say the company behind the rail project has got its calculations badly wrong

Spring is in the hare

NEXT ISSUE • COMMON MAYFLY

UNION OF THE SNAKE DANCING ADDERS • Watch male adders wriggle and writhe around as they battle over a mate

NEXT MONTH • Mike shares the joys of wheeling puffins in May

CAUGHT BY THE FUZZ GREATER BLADDERWORT • The sinister secret of this free-floating pond plant lies beneath the water’s surface

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THE BIG CAT QUEST • One woman’s mission to see a rare snow leopard in Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains – and meet the people protecting them

LAKE OF AQUATIC STARS • Lake Malawi is one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse, home to hundreds of species of colourful, curious endemic cichlid fishes

ONE YEAR, 1000 PLANTS • Discover how Mike Dilger accomplished his lockdown-inspired botanical marathon

Soundscape • An emerging...