Matt Ridley’s “Birds, Sex and Beauty” explores how mate choice and aesthetics drive evolution, blending lyrical nature writing with deep biological insight.

The last of nature’s born singers arrive in early June. The final species to make an appearance on the Newfoundland and Labrador scene are the yellow-bellied flycatcher, gray-cheeked thrush and ...

BBC Springwatch returns this May with three weeks of live programmes from two new locations as it marks its 20th anniversary ...

Remember this American Woodcock, the delightful little bird with an unflappable swagger? Well, if you liked its ridiculous ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, is currently investigating six potential outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, known as bird flu, according to updated ...

TOKYO, May 19 (Reuters) - Japan has suspended imports of poultry meat from the southern Brazilian city of Montenegro and live poultry from the wider state of Rio Grande do Sul following a bird flu ...

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped. Has the search for cases been weakened by ...

Also called the 'half-snipe' because of its smaller size, this species is a winter visitor, with most birds reported from October through to April. Historically hunted alongside Snipe, it was less ...

Crossbills are amongst our earliest breeding birds and it is not unusual for the yellow-green female to be sitting on eggs in late February, and being fed by the ever-attentive deep red male. Like all ...