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When Norwegian journalists need an expert statement about any species of seabird, they are likely to call Tone Reiertsen. She ...
Knowledge of the "other" Borrowdale has long been a shibboleth for lovers of Lakeland esoterica. OK, it might not have jaws, a lake, or access to the highest fells in England, but ...
Volunteers have planted 450 saplings from Wistman’s Wood, an ancient oak woodland covering seven acres in the Dart Valley, on ...
and birds such as redstart and pied flycatcher. These rainforests once swathed western coasts of Britain, the island of Ireland and the Isle of Man, but have shrunk from about a fifth of land to ...
That’s a whole different level. Arizona photographer Jeffry Scott unknowingly achieved the latter this past September while photographing Vermilion Flycatchers at a local Tucson park. Vermilions—small ...
Veteranisation involves strategic cutting of trees, to encourage fungi growth and to host insects, which in turn feed bats and birds like woodpeckers and pied flycatchers. "With extreme weather ...
At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, there’s one little picture that got me through a tough winter: a watercolor in frosted blues, by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, of a solitary ...
BUDDING amateur photographers are invited to take part in the new Devon County Show calendar competition. Devon-based snappers can either submit previous images or take new views to win a place in the ...
and birds such as redstart and pied flycatcher. These rainforests once swathed western coasts of Britain, the island of Ireland and the Isle of Man, but have shrunk from about a fifth of land to ...
In rural areas, the birds will perch for hours along roadsides on fences, limbs and isolated trees. Scissor-tailed flycatchers are considered Neotropical migrants – birds that spend their winters in ...
By late spring, oaks support huge populations of insects and this in turn attracts more birds; Great Tits, Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts and Tree creepers. In early summer, the wood warblers ...