Whatever creative egg-decorating plans you may have for Easter, I guarantee birds already have it beat. Over the course of 150 million years or so of evolution, birds have adapted to fill just about ...
In Malta, the Hoopoe is one of the harbingers of spring. Individual birds may appear as early as mid-February. Hoopoes generally herald the start of migration and are mostly seen from mid-March to ...
But the hoopoe is the triple crown winner of onomatopoeia. Not only is its English name a transcription of the soft, repeated call, the binomial taxonomic name, chosen by Linnaeus, is Upupa epops ...
A bird with a distinctive headcrest that usually only visits the south coast of England is thought to have got "confused" and landed in Ipswich. Jason Alexander said it "made my day" when he spotted a ...
A. Seyed Rabiya and her family at Kovaipudur in the suburbs of Coimbatore have been waking up to a sharp yet distinct call of a bird for a couple of months. Little did she and her family knew that it ...
A bird-watcher and nature lover has been fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of one the rarest birds in Britain. Linda Moederzoon, from Bridgham, Norfolk, spotted the hoopoe bird in her back garden, ...
British birdwatching guides will soon be out of date, warn wildlife experts. Over the next few decades, the changing climate will have driven away many species - and introduced others which have never ...
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