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

Raven’s return • The handsome corvid is making a comeback – and now is the time to spot breeding pairs raising their young

TV travels • Don’t miss Wilderness with Simon Reeve – the new series for BBC Two

Bird flu detected in polar bears for first time • The virus continues to spread among mammals, with the death of a polar bear in Alaska

Prehistoric ‘terror beasts’ discovered in Greenland • Fossils reveal predatory worms that dominated the oceans more than half a billion years ago

Hovering among the hedgerows • Listen out for the hum of this early pollinator

ORIGIN OF PIECES

NATIONAL TREASURE

Dodo may return to Mauritius • Genetic engineers are getting closer to resurrecting this long-extinct bird, but conservationists must prepare for its eventual reintroduction to its homeland

Rare oryx given a new lease of life in North Africa • Having disappeared from the wild in the 1990s, the scimitar-horned oryx is roaming the desert once more, thanks to conservation efforts

Mesechinus orientalis

Baby at the zoo

GILLIAN BURKE • “How far are we willing to go for the sake of convenience?”

Half-female, half-male honeycreeper spotted • Sporting the plumage of both sexes, the unusual bird was observed at a bird-feeding station in Colombia

WILLOW WINDOW

Wildlife displaced by wind turbines • New research shows that developments have a profound impact on many birds and mammals

Peeing pandas

There’s a twist • The quirky misaligned bill of the common crossbill makes it one of nature’s non-conformists

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke reveals how flashy female fireflies fool hapless males

Early birds • Sand martins on the wing areasuresign that spring has sprung

POO CORNER

MARK CARWARDINE • “The world agreed to ‘try harder’, shorthand for ‘not any time soon’”

ICE ICE BABY • It takes teamwork to raise a penguin chick in the frozen climes of the far south

TOP FOUR PLACES • Where king penguins breed

LOOK CLOSER

TROUBLED WATER • An aquatic predator that employs odd appendages and clever tactics to disarm its fishy prey

Sense of purpose

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GREEN CROSS TOAD • In early spring, thousands of toads venture onto Britain’s roads as they travel back to their breeding grounds. But help is at hand to ensure safe passage.

Charlcome Toad Patrol: 2023

The amphibian year

NORTHERN HIGHLIGHTS • An intimate portrait of the wildlife of Shetland – the remote, rugged and most northerly outpost of Britain

SEA REX • An extraordinary fossil found in the UK is revealing the secrets of a predator that lived 150 million years ago

How to raise a monster • The BBC film crew explains some of the processes behind resurrecting a hunting pliosaur

Saving the animals of war • Two years ago, war broke out in Ukraine. As its citizens fled, many animals were left behind. But they were...