A grouse of moorland and forest edge, the Black Grouse is best known for its spring-time gatherings, called 'leks', where the males gather to compete for females. Males are jet black with long curved ...

Little Tern is a summer visitor to our shores, arriving in April to coastal breeding colonies. This small tern favours sand or shingle for nesting, and nests at lower densities than our other breeding ...

Kelly Horan’s piece describing her mother-in-law, Esther Magruder Brooks, was an enthralling and beautifully written narrative about a most interesting and complex woman (“Swan song ...

A gorgeous Black Swan has been hanging around Shoreham-by-Sea recently, making friends with some local Mute Swans. ️🖤 A number of these birds, indigenous to Australia, live free in the UK ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A mute swan in Taiwan has hatched her eggs through natural incubation, marking the first occurrence of its kind in the country. Four cygnets made their public debut on Wednesday ...

She was blessed with good fortune, great beauty, uncommon talent, glittering friends, and a doting family ... In it, Esther, a foot shorter than Peter, is a swan atop his shoulders, her arms ...

Wild Mute swan in flight at Lake Geneva during golden hour of sunset. Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Despite their name, Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) create one of nature’s most ...

Swan is back to her island of secrets for another gripping chapter in the lives and loves of three young friends – Effie Gillies, Mhairi MacKinnon and Flora MacQueen – whose individual stories ...