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

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

Pictures of an unusual visitor seen at a Watten birdfeeder that stands out from the flock due to pale colouring caused by a ...

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 ...

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped on top of a tee box to survey its surroundings. I quickly focused my ...

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

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...

Thomas McKenney, United States superintendent of Indian trade in Georgetown, then port of entry for the District of Columbia, conceived the idea of developing a government collection of portraits of ...

A Catalyst series. Nature journalist and self-confessed bird-nerd, Dr Ann Jones, heads out on an urban safari through Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth to uncover the secret lives of the city's ...

Migratory birds are some of nature’s most efficient travelers, able to cross oceans and continents in a matter of days or ...