Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds.  Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only...

This week has been dominated by one bird over this side of the pond, early Monday morning, not the sort of time you want...

Some weeks can be very hard and the last week was one of them. Thank goodness we can appreciate the natural environment around us...

Mon@rch of Mon@rch’s Nature Blog has been lucky with cuckoos in the last week, getting superb in-hand shots of both Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Black-billed...

Who doesn’t love a macaw? Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for some of the world’s wildest...

The Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibunus, is similar in many ways to Bonaparte’s Gull, Larus philadelphia of North America. They are both small “black-headed” gulls...

…of crows.  Police in Everett, Washington, have had to deal with an aggressive pair of crows after they decided to build a nest just...

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is what oceanographers call ultraoligotrophic, meaning that it has low primary productivity. Basically there just aren’t enough nutrients to sustain...