Have you never seen the snipe eat?” I had not. “He favors the earthworm. He stands there with his head cocked, listening — do you follow me? And when he hears the worm crawling there beneath his thin ...

A rare bird that was fitted with a tracker a year ago has flown back to its winter home of Staffordshire, revealing an epic ...

The BBC met the team behind the fascinating project. The jack snipe is a small and secretive bird and I'm squelching through the site of a former South Staffordshire colliery trying to spot one.