Nestcam close-ups, expert identification guides and specialist wildlife cameras give a privileged view of a very British obsession: garden birds. Whether it's to attract the red-breasted robin, the little Jenny wren or the sensational singing blackbird, we entice birds into our back gardens and outdoor spaces and witness the dramas of their fleeting lives. From the difference between garden, willow and wood warblers to an intimate view of the promiscuous dunnock, this video collection represents garden bird highlights from the BBC's wildlife archive.
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Chris Packham's definitive guide on what to feed your garden birds.
Chris Packham's definitive guide on what to feed your garden birds.
The birds we learn to love in our gardens aren't the same individuals year round.
The birds we learn to love in our gardens aren't the same individuals year round.
Garden birds fighting at bird feeders.
Garden birds fighting at bird feeders.
The original woodland pigeon is in decline but breeding happily in Muncaster.
The original woodland pigeon is in decline but breeding happily in Muncaster.
Springwatch investigates recent research.
Martin Hughes-Games investigates recent research that suggests some birds with access to feeders are less successful at rearing chicks.
Bearded tits are particularly vulnerable to long cold winters, when populations can be...
Blue tits are bright, inquisitive little birds that have been shown to use aromatic...
Carrion crows are found in western Europe and throughout Asia.
Chaffinches are cheerful
Chiffchaffs are extremely active birds, constantly flicking their tails and wings while...
Coal tits are similar to great tits, but less colourful.
Blackbirds are ground feeders pulling worms and pecking at insects and berries at the...
Crested tits are not as colourful as other tits, but have their identifying crests and...
Dunnocks are common little garden and hedgerow birds.
Since the UK's first breeding collared doves were recorded in the mid-1950s, their...
Jays are strikingly coloured members of the crow family, found throughout England and...
Sparrowhawks are so-named because 98% of their diet consists of other birds.
At first glance, treecreepers look very much like mice as they hop up tree trunks, which...
Goldfinches are strikingly beautiful examples of the
Greenfinches are very common UK countryside and garden birds.
Magpies are jacks of all trades:
Robins are one of the only UK birds to be heard singing in the garden on Christmas day.
Although seen in their millions in the spectacular winter aerial displays, starlings...
When the fieldfare begins to arrive en-masse in search of warmer weather, our winter is...
Finches are a family of birds sometimes known as the true finches.
Garden warblers are fairly nondescript as warblers go, similar to many other warbler...
Goldcrests vie with their cousins, firecrests, for the title of the UK's smallest...
Great spotted woodpeckers are the most widespread and numerous woodpecker in the UK.
Great tits are colourful both in their
House sparrows are perhaps the most cosmopolitan of all birds, and have lived alongside...
Diminutive members of the crow family, jackdaws are renowned for their love - and often...
Linnets are widespread and common throughout much of Europe, often breeding in small...
Reed buntings are some of the most 'adulterous' birds on record.
Pigeons are domesticated rock doves that have returned to wild or semi-wild conditions.
Rooks often earned the ire of farmers for their omnivorous diet which includes seeds and...
Ring-necked parakeets are the only species of parrot that live wild in the UK.
Ringing out loud and clear across the neighbourhood, the song thrush performs the most...
Stock doves are rather like, and often mistaken for, feral rock pigeons.
Tawny owls are the most common and widespread of British owls.
Turtle doves often crop up in verse as symbols of devoted love, though feeding your...
Willow warblers look almost identical to chiffchaffs.
Wrens are surprisingly loud despite their tiny stature.
Farmland is essentially a non-natural environment that has been deliberately cleared to...
Heathlands are lowland areas dominated by colourful heather, gorse and bracken.
The coniferous forests of temperate regions undergo warm summers and cool winters,...
Urban habitats are areas dominated by human activities and human constructions.
Culture is a social system or set of behaviours that is passed down through the...
Migration is the usually seasonal movement of animals in pursuit of food, suitable...
Predation defence comes in many forms: physiological, anatomical and behavioural.
Scansorial describes animals that spend much of their life climbing such as squirrels,...
Hierarchical animals have what is known colloquially as a 'pecking order'.
Acoustic communication is the sending and receiving of messages using sound.
Polygynous sexual behaviour is the system in which a single male mates with multiple...
Swarming happens when animals gather or travel together in large numbers.
Tool use was once thought to be a strictly human behaviour, but it is now known that...