“THE Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin,” by Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley, is the latest addition to the series being issued by them on the Vertebrate fauna of Scotland. They have already given ...

We are fortunate to have many beautiful British birds throughout the country. Some visit our gardens, others are found only in the wild, and a few favour our cities. With so many varieties, bird ...

Birding is a popular pastime for people of all ages. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, more than 45 million people enjoy watching birds. It’s a hobby you can pick up at any time, it’s ...

To the last edition of his “Bird Notes,” the author appended a glossary of synonyms of the British species. The present little volume is an amplification of that glossary, and appears to be as nearly ...

One of the simplest ways to slow down is to stop, smell the roses and listen to the birds. However, it seems people are starting to do more than just listen to them. The hobby of bird watching might ...

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If you had to name a ‘dream’ bird that the British public would most love to see, I suspect the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) would make our collective top three. Yet, for all its immense size, it ...

As hardware startups go, few are more fun than Bird Buddy. The simple innovation of mounting a connected camera on a bird feeder has developed a strong customer base and an army of knockoffs. Our own ...

“The Cuckoo” is a silent nature film from the 1930s that examines the unusual and somewhat ruthless reproductive behavior of the cuckoo bird. The film documents how cuckoos lay their eggs in other ...

Carla Dove and her team at the feather-identification lab at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, study snarge — that's the bird goo that is wiped off an aircraft after it ...