Thomas Hardy, in his poem Wagtail and Baby, presumably writing of the grey wagtail, describes the bird drinking at the river as a baby looks on. He writes how splashing water from a travelling ...

I USED to watch flocks of seabirds, in the flightpath of Prestwick Airport, forage calmly as jumbo jets thundered in to land. But any human presence near the birds sent them flying in agitated ...

"[T]he great God ... determined to render the world inhabitable. He, therefore, made a water-wagtail, and sent him down from heaven to produce the Earth. When [the bird] descended and saw what a ...

A willie wagtail feeding her three recently hatched ... Mr Pyne said at this time of year the wildlife hospital saw a lot of baby birds coming through and many with fish hook injuries as a lot ...

The Singular Methods of Travel the Wagtail adopts to Cross the Mediterranean Sea.—In the autumn of 1878 I spent several weeks on the Island of Crete. On several occasions the papas—village ...

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 ...

A forest wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus) has been spotted in the Sultanpur National Park. This is the first time it has been sighted in Haryana, according to birders. “It is a greyish bird ...

COIMBATORE: Unlike previous years, the presence of Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea), a migratory bird from the Himalayas, is largely been spotted in the surroundings of Valparai. Sources said that ...