An electronically tagged seal pup with a terrible sense of direction is to be flown back to Greenland after washing up over 3,2oo km from home on England’s east coast. Read the full story

Siku, a polar bear infant being raised at a zoo in Kolind, Denmark, is winning the hearts of people around the world. Read the full story

Scientists have yet to agree on why thousands of dead herring have washed up on a Norwegian beach in the last week. Read the full story

The majority of members on Iceland’s working group on the protection of sea birds have controversially decided that complete protection of five species is the only way to strengthen their numbers. Read the full story

While the unseasonably warm weather in Finland has left wannabe ice skaters out in the cold, bird watchers have been counting their chickens thanks to the large number of species that have postponed their migrations south. Read the full story

A snake with two heads found in Denmark will most likely kill itself in a conflict of interest, according experts. Read the full story

There are calls to ban all puffin hunting in Iceland next year in the face of the continuing decline in puffin numbers around the country. Read the full story

Hunting of Iceland’s favourite Christmas table bird, the ptarmigan, could be banned outright following a warning from The Icelandic Institute of Natural History. Read the full story

More bad news for Iceland’s breeding sea birds comes from the Snaefellsjokull National Park, where this year’s breeding season did not go well. Read the full story

Increasing sea temperature and growing mackerel numbers around Iceland are having a direct impact on the collapse of sand eel populations upon which birds like puffins and Arctic terns depend. Read the full story