A female pair of two-year-old, critically endangered, blue-throated macaws native to Bolivia, flew away from London Zoo described as ‘escaping’ but it seems to me they simply flew away because they have a routine session of flying freely at the zoo. On this occasion they …
More: 86% of British citizens want to halt imports of inhumane foie gras Although the lab-grown foie gras that I mention in the Infographic looks wonderful and appears to me to tick all the boxes in terms of the correct way to proceed to continue …
I am reliably told that there are approximately 11,000 bird species worldwide today, 2024. The number is based on modern taxonomic studies including those conducted by organisations like Birdlife International and The International Ornithological Congress. The species are spread across a wide range of habitats …
On the Isle of Man and in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland you can take out ‘seagull insurance’ when you’re eating at a food outlet. Sounds strange? This is because seagulls have become enormous pests to paying customers at The Cheesy Toast Shack, a takeaway in …
You might think that seagulls prefer chips to fish in the sea. You might think this because we often see pictures of seagulls taking chips and other human fast-food out of the hands of tourists at the seaside. Hounding those tourists into handing over the …
The posties – postmen and women – of the UK Cornish town, Liskeard, are so frightened of the seagulls dive bombing them to protect their offspring that they have stopped delivering mail to the residents. They’ll will try again the next day if an attack …
In Sussex, UK, a nice bit of successful bird conservation is taking place. It concerns the butcher bird (or butcherbird) – the red-backed shrike – which was abundant across England and Wales in the 19th century. Pressure from egg collectors and intensified agricultural practices caused …
The kind of nesting site that peregrine falcons prefer are “big stone things with knobbly bits”. That’s according to Francis Hickenbottom of Wakefield Peregrine Project. And it’s the reason why peregrine falcons like cathedrals. They use cathedrals for nesting because they are big stone things …
Barred owls have a wingspan of 4 feet and grow to 2 feet in length. They are native to the eastern United States and they can be relatively aggressive. However, since the early 1900s they have steadily moved westward encroaching into the western states of …
