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

Love is in the air • A surprise encounter with a pair of courting turacos delivered a winning shot

Book a date with badgers • Now is the time to join an organised watch for the chance to see curious cubs

Great apes seek thrills by spinning • Ape behaviour gives clues to why humans chase mind-altering stimulation

Culture club • Bumblebees can learn from each other, creating culture within colonies

Songs from the reedbed • Visit a wetland to hear the chatter of a summer visitor

Swim a rainbow

The shiny, sun-loving show-off • Spot this day-flying moth in open areas in May and June

ORIGIN OF PIECES • A kangaroo’s pouch

GILLIAN BURKE • “What if we swapped the word ‘nature’ for ‘our home’? ”

MAGICAL MAYFLIES

10 poisonous fungi

New seabird illness

Carmela Buono • Preserve manager at Hudson Highlands Land Trust on beneficial interactions between species

Geese take a gander • Pink-footed geese have scouted out new breeding grounds in response to a changing Arctic climate

Cyrtodactylus santana

Swedish cull controversy

Lost & Found • Smalltooth sand tiger shark, Hampshire

DUCKS IN A ROW

Dusty tetraka seen after 24-year gap

There’s the grub • Biologists have finally identified the ‘worm’ in mezcal bottles

COLLECTIVE NOUNS • A dray of squirrels

A rosy future? • Roseate terns are back this month – but they face an uncertain fate

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke on how social standing affects primate maternal success

Purple prize • Resist mowing your lawn this month and bugle could bloom

POO CORNER • European bison

MARK CARWARDINE • “It’s just a small but influential group who drive Japan’s whaling interests”

Woodcocks are a whiter shade of pale • These waders sport the whitest feathers known to science – but they like to keep them under wraps

Thunderbirds

NEXT ISSUE

SPINNING AROUND • Watch puffns form swirling roundabouts in the sky as they prepare to come ashore

GOOD VIBRATIONS • The delicate garden insect that sends out a seductive song and duets with its mating partner

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BUTTERFLY BRITAIN • Five years spent roaming the country in search of all 58 native species yielded a trove of insightful images

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TURTLE BEACH • The sandy shore of a sleepy fishing village in Trinidad hosts the highest concentration of nesting leatherbacks to be found anywhere on the planet

Meet the sea turtles • Seven species of these charismatic reptiles roam the planet’s oceans and the leatherback is the largest and oldest

“Fret is always there, nagging like the itch of a horsefly bite” • With devastating biodiversity losses and a climate in chaos, it’s not surprising that we are increasingly anxious about the state of our planet

BACK IN BLACK • Rearing and...