Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

There can be few other British birds that are so steeped in mystery and folklore as the woodcock. Unusually, several of these rather suspect ‘country-tales’ are, astonishingly, true. There is no doubt ...

There is no doubt the woodcock is a strange bird; although a wader, with a long wading bird’s bill, it frequents woodlands.

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Researchers analyzed saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from plants and residential hummingbird feeders.

Inside the darkened interior of Mark Hartman’s early generation Double Bull Blind, he and I watch the sun rise and the landscape come into form as sunlight spreads across the open field in ...

One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.

Officials in the US have sought to reassure citizens that flying is safe ... Air crashed in South Korea after what appeared to be a bird strike. Here, The Independent takes a look at just how ...

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A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

A bizarre incident in Abeokuta has sparked widespread discussion online after reports emerged of a large flying bird allegedly transforming into an old woman at around 1 a.m. The woman, however, ...