The peacock is famous for its radiant tail, but it’s not the only bird with a particularly well-constructed rear end. Here’s ...

Big-spending anglers are driving a niche luxury hospitality boom at high-end resorts across the globe, from Africa to the ...

The natural world is full of bright surprises, like these amphibian, insect, avian—and even mammal—species Why are some animals so colorful? The natural world brings so much joy and wonder to our ...

Another species, the yellow-tailed black cockatoo, is found in South Australia, Tasmania and the eastern states. Their numbers are understood to be declining due to habitat loss, but they are not ...

The Black-tailed godwit, that was categorised as ... Deivasigamani and Sundara Manikkam of Gobichettipalayam sighted the bird at a waterbody and recorded it. The long-legged and long-billed ...

In 1965, the same year The Beatles’ sang “Help!,” the Black Bird general store opened in Medford. Since then, bargain hunters, wildlife seekers and DIYers, from driveway mechanics to ...

When Kerrupmara, Gunditjmara and Boandik man Travis Lovett wears the tail feathers of his traditional totem – the south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo – people stop him in the street to ask ...

The South Eastern Red Tailed Black Cockatoo is one of five subspecies of Red Tail Black Cockatoos across Australia and the most endangered, with less than 1500 remaining in the wild.Credit ...

New research has shown that glossy black-cockatoos prefer to feed from trees growing in acidic soils. New research from the University of Adelaide has shown that glossy black-cockatoos prefer to ...

More information: Gabriel M. Crowley et al, Geology controls the distribution of a seed-eating bird: Feeding-tree selection by the glossy black-cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, PLOS ONE (2024 ...

Culturally, however, I concede that Purbeck is island-like, isolated, pleasantly lost in the past, with its steam railway running to Swanage via a black ... the bird lies camouflaged in its ...