Smash hit

Des res for dormouse. Just down corridor

The way to protect these tiny creatures is to build links between their isolated pieces of land

Into the wild: it's the common birds we need to worry about

Rare birds have benefited from brilliantly effective conservation

At last, someone to stick up for the underfrog

It's not easy being a cold-blooded reptile. They need us on their side

Into the wild: Egrets? I saw a few

A hint of Hammer Horror down in Suffolk

Owls and muntjac join a spooky chorus on a moonlit night

Why did the elephant cross the road?

Because it likes a corridor. And so people can tend their land

Why does nobody talk about Kaziranga?

This was truly one of the great wildlife spectacles of the world — how come nobody had told me about it?

Into the wild: return of the otter

Here’s a good-news story — the steady increase of the otter population continues, the result of a cleaner environment

David Attenborough, batman hero in the cave

Walking on piles of hardened guano with cockroaches, beetles and bats. Lovely!

Two kinds of killers, but only one is criminal

Don’t despair when birds kill other birds. Be ashamed when humans do

This time the lawyers have my support

... because they are working on the right side in the Port of Tyne case

Simon Barnes: fungus spawns danger for frogs

These amphibians are vulnerable: the introduction of this particular threat is likely to be fatal unless action is taken

No longer starved of a little bit of plantlife

Wild Notebook: rejoice in a piece of good if unspectacular news

We had flown before; we all know the ropes

Forget the frail or young: they are stuck at the back of the line

Attack of the bee killers — a real-life disaster

Our gung-ho approach to pesticides, it seems, that is at the heart of the problem of the disappearing bees

Simon Barnes: return of the buzzard

It was hunted to the brink of extinction, but now this striking predator is once again gladdening our skies

Caw, is that black thing a bird or a pterodactyl?

There is a more or less unbroken line between our feathered friends and the dinosaurs