Black skimmers will sometimes rest on the beach by laying their head and belly on the sand, Koczur said. A casual observer ...

BirdWatch Ireland said it is conservative in its designation and the areas identified are the most crucial ones for Irish ...

Precariously perched in cliff crevices or soaring high over swelling seas, Ireland’s marine birds create some of the ...

Despite its tiny stature, the smallest bird native to North America can survive cold nights in the Rocky Mountains, and some ...

Ralph Sheppard is an ecologist living in Donegal, where he has been monitoring the birds since the 1950s. This is an extract ...

New research suggests long-billed curlews keep an ear out for warnings from prairie dogs in order to hide from predators and protect their nests ...

Learn what an adult and juvenile black-crowned night-heron looks like. Plus, find out where you can see one of these wading birds.

NEMURO, Hokkaido -- The highly pathogenic avian influenza, known for its high mortality rate, is suspected as the cause of mass deaths and abnormal be ...

Over the years rare birds calling Dorset their temporary home have had people flocking to different parts of the county to catch a glimpse. Very recently a hoopoe at Weston, Portland, drew a large ...

George Divoky’s patient documentation of an Alaskan Black Guillemot colony on the shrinking sea ice was one of the world’s first documented evidence of climate change, introducing George as a ...

Scotland, for example, is home to 100 per cent of the UK’s breeding populations of Leach's storm petrel, Arctic skua, Great skua and Black guillemot.

The black guillemot colony was rapidly growing, increasing from a couple of dozen nests to 200 in a decade. There might have been more, but Divoky built only 200 wooden nesting boxes.