The sound of river water always draws me near, offering the possibility of interesting wildlife close by. Even small tributaries quietly tumbling along are home to enough aquatic invertebrates and ...

LIKE Thomas Hardy’s Darkling Thrush, a local song thrush has for days now been leading the way in summoning spring from: "The bleak twigs overhead / In a full- hearted evensong’’ with "His happy ...

The pied wagtail is black, white, and grey. This is the common ‘willie wagtail’ found everywhere, in towns and the countryside. I regularly visit schools, and, for some reason I don’t understand, pied ...

A peaceful stroll along a County Durham stream turned into a thrilling wildlife encounter when photographer Brian Howes spotted a grey wagtail — a bird rarely seen in the area during the colder months ...

Few in City Beautiful could have been left unstirred by the marvels of bird migration. CHANDIGARH: Few in City Beautiful could have been left unstirred by the marvels of bird migration. An estimated ...

A bird expert says it is likely that what was thought to be a white willie wagtail is actually a pale grey fantail, but it is still a bird with a rare genetic condition. A rare white willie wagtail is ...

The wagtail is no longer a regular visitor to Britain’s gardens as its populations is in long-term decline, warns a new report. The latest Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) annual report revealed that ...

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Fourteen-year-olds R Harikrishnan, S Kannan, and S Yogeshwaran were out on their usual stroll around their school campus after lunch when they spotted it. A slender grey bird with yellow and white ...

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When Saravanan Balasundaram's participation in the Chennai Bird Race was confirmed, his joy knew no bounds.He was one among the first-timers who would count birds in the city on Republic Day. Pallas’s ...

Wild mallard ducks have been observed attacking and eating migratory birds. This has never been documented before and is probably a new behaviour, say scientists. Zoologists at the University of ...