Whatever your bank balance... you are soon likely to be poorer.

It’s not your account you should be looking to. It’s not your savings, nor the things that you own that is under threat. It’s a bird. A bird that weighs less than a single standard house brick.

The average adult human brain is two and a half times heavier and we must all now put this hefty muscle to use if we are to prevent this one species…

My twenty year old daughter has never seen a hedgehog. I’m saddened and shocked by this because hedgehogs have vanished from our lives on my watch. When I was her age, I’d regularly see and hear them snuffling around for food at night. They have become rarities in less than a generation!

The RSPB’s survey of garden wildlife focused on eight species likely to appear in the nation’s gardens. What it revealed…

We’ve got a £100 voucher to give away to one lucky winner, which was supplied to us by Rohan for our Big Wild Sleepout competition!

Five South East reserves are participating in this year’s Big Wild Sleepout:

RSPB Dungeness, RSPB Farnham Heath, RSPB Pagham Harbour, RSPB Pulborough Brooks and RSPB Rainham Marshes.

To enter the competition, all you have to do is follow one of the below social media accounts…

You don't have to visit one of our reserves to take part in our free Big Wild Sleepout, but if you do, we can't wait to welcome you!

This annual event is your one chance of the year to spend the night on our reserves, camping in an amazing nocturnal landscape.

Encompassing some of the best sites for wildlife in the South East, you can be sure that whichever reserve you choose; you will have a truly unique experience…

You don't have to visit one of our reserves to take part in our free Big Wild Sleepout, but if you do, we can't wait to welcome you!

This annual event is your one chance of the year to spend the night on our reserves, camping in an amazing nocturnal landscape.

Encompassing some of the best sites for wildlife in the South East, you can be sure that whichever reserve you choose; you will have a truly unique experience…

You don't have to visit one of our reserves to take part in our free Big Wild Sleepout, but if you do, we can't wait to welcome you!

This annual event is your one chance of the year to spend the night on our reserves, camping in an amazing nocturnal landscape.

Encompassing some of the best sites for wildlife in the South East, you can be sure that whichever reserve you choose; you will have a truly unique experience…

You don't have to visit one of our reserves to take part in our free Big Wild Sleepout, but if you do, we can't wait to welcome you!

This annual event is your one chance of the year to spend the night on our reserves, camping in an amazing nocturnal landscape.

Encompassing some of the best sites for wildlife in the South East, you can be sure that whichever reserve you choose; you will have a truly unique experience…

You don't have to visit one of our reserves to take part in our free Big Wild Sleepout, but if you do, we can't wait to welcome you!

This annual event is your one chance of the year to spend the night on our reserves, camping in an amazing nocturnal landscape.

Encompassing some of the best sites for wildlife in the South East, you can be sure that whichever reserve you choose; you will have a truly unique…

Newspapers today are focusing around our RSPB Langstone Harbour reserve, Hampshire, as a frisherman claims a great white shark is hunting around Hayling Island.

While many species of shark are native to waters, there have never been any confirmed sightings of globally vulnerable great white sharks off the coast of the UK according to marine experts, the Shark Trust.

It's far more likely to be one of our UK shark species…

A rare North American visitor has attracted large crowds to the RSPB’s Pagham Harbour nature reserve this week. The aptly-named elegant tern is near threatened species, and is normally found in America or Mexico during the summer months; but this particular bird has been delighting visitors to the Church Norton area for several days.

“Our staff and volunteers have completed a lot of improvement works to tern…

The RSPB’s Big Wild Sleepout returns for a fifth fabulous year, and between 28^th and 30^th July, thousands of children and their families will be pitching tents in gardens and RSPB reserves across the UK, hoping to discover what night time creatures are living on their doorstep.

And our RSPB South East reserves offer truly unique environments for campers to pitch their tents and get up close to nature.

At…

Starting on 13 June, ‘Little Wild Things’ is a new preschool nature group designed for children between 2 ½ and 5 years old. The sessions will provide a regular chance for families with younger children to meet some of the amazing creatures that live on the RSPB Pulborough Brooks reserve, West Sussex, while learning through natural play, stories and crafts.

The themed activity sessions will run…

As part of our #Volunteersweek celebrations, we wanted to share with you some of the stories from our very own RSPB volunteers. With almost 2000 volunteers helping in the South East alone, we can achieve much more for wildlife with their help than we ever could alone!

RSPB volunteer Elaine Charlson regularly helps out as a volunteer with practical conservation work at RSPB Hazeley Heath reserve, but also has a passion for…

As part of our #Volunteersweek celebrations, we wanted to share with you some of the stories from our very own RSPB volunteers. With almost 2000 volunteers helping in the South East alone, we can achieve much more for wildlife with their help than we ever could alone!

Dave Sneller has been volunteering at RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve for about eight years. His role involves going out on the reserve and in the hides…

As part of our #Volunteersweek celebrations, we wanted to share with you some of the stories from our very own RSPB volunteers. With almost 2000 volunteers helping in the South East alone, we can achieve much more for wildlife with their help than we ever could alone!

"I’ve been volunteering with the RSPB since 2013 helping to prepare the volunteers newsletter. 

Last year I started browsing volunteering opportunities…

As part of our #Volunteersweek celebrations, we wanted to share with you some of the stories from our very own RSPB volunteers. With almost 2000 volunteers helping in the South East alone, we can achieve much more for wildlife with their help  than we ever could alone!

Arline Bonsall gives us a unique insight into the ‘life and times’ of her volunteering over the years.

"I was born in the East End of London…

More evidence of the ongoing persecution of birds of prey has emerged with the discovery of a wounded bird in East Sussex

A protected peregrine falcon has been found shot in Ninfield, East Sussex, sparking an investigation by police and the RSPB.

The bird – a female – was discovered alive but injured by woods at Lunsford Cross on 10 May, and staff from East Sussex Wildlife Animal Rescue were called to recover the…

A peregrine falcon, which hatched at Salisbury Cathedral in 2014, is being released back into the wild after it was found shot and wounded.

On 11 March 2017, the bird was found injured in King Somborne, Hampshire. It was taken to the Hawk Conservancy Trust in Andover where it was examined by a vet who confirmed that the bird had a fractured wing, caused by shooting. It remained at the Trust’s bird of prey hospital for…

A number of our supporters have raised concerns about the potential impact on nesting birds during the Brighton Festival installation ‘For the birds’ which takes place in woodland in Brighton in evenings in May.

The concerns centre around the possibility that the piece could impact on nesting birds, which are protected under law during the breeding season. The RSPB is keen to see that organisers of any outdoor…

Get a rare view of peregrine chicks with the RSPB when you visit Chichester Cathedral this spring.

Home to breeding peregrines since 2001, Chichester Cathedral hosts our annual Date with Nature event, where live HD footage of the nest is beamed to a special viewing area in the Cathedral’s Royal Chantry Garden. RSPB staff and volunteers will be on hand with binoculars and telescopes, to help you spot the birds and to answer…

Today the state of the UK’s birds 2016 (SUKB)* report was released, and although the number of species in decline has worryingly increased, this comprehensive report also highlights how targeted conservation efforts can turn around the fortunes of some of our most threatened species.

Red kites, golden eagles and the ground nesting nightjar have all shown significant recoveries thanks to the work of conservation…

Throughout April RSPB Rainham Marshes nature reserve is marking This Girl Can month with a series of events and activities, some of them for women only.

We’ll be walking, running, climbing, wiggling, cycling or taking a moment in nature to boost physical and mental wellbeing. Whatever your ability you’ll be welcome at our sessions. Come with a friend or by yourself and escape the tyranny of the treadmill. No special…

The 2017 Big Garden Birdwatch results are out and it's a mixed bag of news across the south east of England.

Participation was up 8.3% compared with ten years ago. Of the 92 thousand plus people who checked the birds that live alongside them, eighty per cent were adults and 20% children. Outside of Greater London, participation was highest in Hampshire, followed closely by Kent and then Surrey.

1.2 million birds…

Nightingales; "What they lack in appearance, they make up for in song" said Sir David Attenborough; and as usual he was not wrong.

These small birds have an astonishingly rich repertoire, and are able to produce over 1000 different sounds, compared with just 340 by skylarks and about 100 by blackbirds. This is because the part of the brain responsible for creating sound is bigger in nightingales than in most…