County Durham residents are encouraged to join the Big Garden Birdwatch, the world’s largest garden wildlife survey.

Bill Danielson recounts a fleeting winter encounter with a yellow-bellied sapsucker, capturing a few unforgettable photos and ...

Susan Marsh has reported the final Christmas Bird Count results, a total of species 54 counted, 2,802 total individual birds ...

Same-sex sexual behaviour has been recorded in around 1,500 species, from insects and starfish to birds and mammals. Yet sex ...

Peak Popularity: Crystal was very popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, hitting its peak at 9 in 1982. Since 1998, it ...

On bleak winter days, a flash of cardinal red at a simple backyard feeder brings calm, color and crucial food to songbirds in ...

Each palm-size owl caught is a rush, not only because it is an encounter in the dark with pure wildness. Saw-whets are one of ...

Paul Jepson reflects on an enjoyable and educational visit to northern Colombia, involving a new language and plenty of new ...

If I hadn’t known any better, I would have sworn on a stack of holy books—the Bible: Testaments Old and New; the Koran; the ...

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