The number of flamingos at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and across Florida has been rising, giving hope for a ...

The lawsuit, filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, alleges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered ...

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If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city pigeon. They ...

One further clue to differentiate between these two birds is the frontal shield: a platelike prolongation of their beaks that reaches up to their forehead. The shield of the moorhen is bright red with ...

At the back of his ute, a local Tasmanian oyster farmer is shucking oysters from their shells, to be savoured alongside a ...

Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary has temporarily closed as part of plans to develop the facility, in a Dh650-million project announced earlier. The contract for the first phase of the development was ...

I prefer to handle my own problem wildlife issues around my home, and I have usually been successful. That is, until now, ...

Parasitoid organisms such as wasp larvae develop inside the aphids and eventually kill them. Other predators include birds, predatory midges, earwigs, ladybirds and their larvae, lacewing larvae and ...

This tiny bird is a member of the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. The first part of its name, vermilion, refers to the bright vermilion-red color on the breast, belly, and crest of the males.

We are often so keen to encounter this animal that ambition overrides the accuracy of our observations, writes Mark Cocker.