A QUARTET of trumpeting whooper swans flying north west over my local brae last week signalled that spring is finally stirring. These birds, having wintered on Irish loughs, shores and flooded fields, ...

1. Brown hares are easily identifiable. The brown hare is the larger of the two species of hares that occur in Britain (the other species being the mountain hare). The long black-tipped ears and ...

Brown hare numbers have been declining dramatically during the last century due in part to shooting and habitat decline. CHRIS LUFFINGHAM argues they still face threats from illegal hunting despite a ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions There are two species of hare in the UK (brown and mountain) but only ...

Biologists have published a chromosomally assembled reference genome for the European brown hare. The genome consists of 2.9 billion base pairs, which form 23 autosomal chromosomes, and X and Y sex ...

Britain’s brown hares could be wiped out after a deadly infection spread from rabbits threatens this already vulnerable species, experts have warned. Over the past month, scientists have been ...

Kasapidis, P., Suchentrunk, F., Magoulas, A. & Kotoulas, G. (2005) The shaping of mitochondrial DNA phylogeographic patterns of the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) under the combined influence of Late ...

An exotic grass planted on farmland could have unexpected benefits for wildlife, scientists say. Elephant grass (Miscanthus) planted as a biomass crop is a valuable habitat for the brown hare, ...

Br'er Rabbit was a hare. So was Bugs Bunny, whose first outing, back in 1940, was titled The Wild Hare. The reputation of the hare as a merry prankster goes back to African folk tales which were ...