A study published in the journal Animal Behaviour has discovered that songbirds need to warm up – metaphorically speaking backstage just like opera singers – in preparation for their dawn chorus songs to attract mates and impress male competition. They need to practice and warm …
Wales’s last golden eagle has been found dead. It is believed that she was 15 or 16 years old. The cause of death is being investigated but it appears to be natural. She was found by a walker after she had spent 12 years flying …
The Earl of Hopetoun is Andrew Hope. His family has owned the Leadhills estate of 19,500 acres for 300 years. It is farmland and moorland across South Lancashire. It has a reputation, it is reported in The Times, as an alleged wildlife crime hotspot. The …
NEWS-VIEWS-OPINION: I am sure that I am not the only one who is noticing discarded facemasks on the pavement or roads and even on country walks. It is occurring in any country. I live in the UK and is certainly happening here. I’m not seeing …
A man-made nest carefully constructed by volunteers by placing sticks on a remote cliff where the remains of an old nest had been, has encouraged and indeed succeeded in attracting a golden eagle to rear her young on a Highland estate for the first time …
The Countryside Alliance decided to fight back because currently there is a lot of negative discussion about shooting birds for pleasure which essentially is what grouse shooting is. Perhaps the coronavirus pandemic has made people more sensitive towards our animal cousins. There is certainly a …
A team of scientists at Universidade Federald de Goiás have worked out, through a complex calculation, that the value of see bird droppings or guano is worth £840 million a year in terms of fertilising crops and delivering nutrients to coral reefs and boosting fish …
I’ve used the word “confident” in the title. I need to be a bit more precise in describing what happens to a pigeon’s mentality when you add weights to their legs. It sounds bizarre but this is what researchers did. They wanted to test whether …
NEWS AND VIEWS AND UPDATE: Her name is Ethel, and she is an apparently wild but gentle emu who appears to have made the area around Doncaster in the north of England her home. She appears not to have an owner and has become a …
