Another Life: None flies straighter or with more urgency than the wren
Michael Viney: This little bird’s adaptability and pioneering spirit has created about 50 distinct races in different habitats worldwide
Michael Viney: This little bird’s adaptability and pioneering spirit has created about 50 distinct races in different habitats worldwide
Blackbirds topped the list of a British ‘abnormal plumage’ survey, at over 40%
Another Life: Some floaters circle territories and sneak the odd ‘extra-pair copulation’
The feeding of so many different species of birds has become ecologically important
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Irish pipits, as I’ve watched many times, don’t hesitate to mob the hawk-like cuckoo at its teetering perch on a telegraph wire
Science calls it ‘brood parasitism’. The naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White, with more feeling, called it ‘a monstrous outrage on maternal affection’
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