Woman shocked by model boat on Sefton Park lake A member of the public contacted the ECHO after spotting the boat. News. Liam Thorp Political Editor. 13:46, 13 Jun 2025 Updated 14:31, 13 Jun 2025.

Merseyside Police cordoned off Sefton Park lake following an unusual discovery. Officers were called to the South Liverpool park on Sunday, June 8, after reports something had been found in the ...

On a hot day, a few glugs from a park drinking fountain can be a major relief — and some of Sydney’s cockatoos agree. The brainy city-dwelling parrots have figured out how to twist on drinking ...

Researchers mapped 10 drinking fountains in the area and temporarily marked 24 cockatoos with identifying colors, which they estimate accounted for 16 to 24 percent of the local population.

In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their large bodies to twist the tap handles of drinking fountains in order to ...

A team of researchers in Australia published a paper about how the population of sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney have learned to operate drinking fountains designed for human use.

Cockatoos in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, will wait in line for a taste of drinking fountain water. Klump et al., Biology Letters, 2025 Australia’s suburban-dwelling cockatoos are ...

If you pay a visit to the fountain area at Pioneer Park, keep one thing in mind: Someone is watching. Four surveillance cameras have been erected, each attached to one of the antique light poles ...

Part of a city park has been left damaged, with grass and paths "churned up by vehicles" after a music event was held there, a local councillor has said. Sefton Park in Liverpool hosted the three ...

Six new public drinking fountains have been installed in Tartu. ... (Muuseumi tee T5), at the Sanatooriumi Park bike park (Sanatooriumi tänav T3), at the bus station's bicycle park and near the Anne ...

Sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney parks are forming queues to drink from public fountains, revealing a surprising new behavior, researchers found.

A team of animal behaviorists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, working with a colleague from Western Sydney University, in Australia, has discovered that wild cockatoos ...