The diet of British birds of prey in the distant past was very different from that of their descendants. A team led by archaeologist Juliette Waterman of the University of Reading discovered ...

The National Audubon Society announced the winning photographs of the Audubon Photography Awards. The eleventh year of the ...

A vanished species is making an unexpected comeback, right in the heart of east London. After centuries of silence, a bold ...

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Studying wild rock doves gives us a rare chance to establish how one of science’s model species lives in nature. This may ...

Researchers examined 177 bird species in four large mountain ranges: the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Scandinavian Mountains, and ...

Dry and warm 2025 spring gave glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds but many remain in long-term decline The warmest and sunniest spring on record this year led to an increase in the breeding of ...

Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world When Natasha Walter first became curious about the birds around her, she recorded their songs on her ...

Meteorologists divide the year into four seasons, each consisting of three months. According to the meteorological calendar, winter starts on 1st December and continues until the end of February. This ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I have a baby with a miraculous ability to be both a night owl and an early bird. He sleeps soundly during daylight and then at night, catnaps, until he’s ready to party at the crack of dawn.

Forget ‘five gold rings’, how about 866,000 alloy ones? A new report from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) highlights the latest findings from wild bird ringing activities across the UK and ...