Primary school children in Banbury have been learning about nature and how they can help ... assisted the children in building and decorating bird boxes. The pupils also learned about the role ...

Some bird species have developed the astonishing ability to sleep while flying. They do that by resting one half of their brain while keeping the other half alert to navigate and avoid obstacles.

The word is used for birds and mammals that make use of man and his buildings; also, the use that birds make of other birds, mammals, reptiles and fish. For example birds use the hair of mammals ...

He would do much better to buy a note-book and a copy of Thoreau's “Walden.” This is a book for show and not for use. The eight photographs from nature are capital.

HULBERT – Cold weather kept the number of participants down for the “Great Backyard Bird Count” at Three Forks Nature Center on the first day of the two-day event, “Birding Walk ...

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

The editor got no story, but he helped spread Steve Hannagan’s fame as a rare bird among the shrill jays ... girl a stock shot for the American press, and who persuaded newspaper readers that ...

He did such a good job that Ellicock asked him for 30 boxes for swifts; the following year he handmade 340 bird boxes, set up a stall at BirdFair (another one for my diary) and won Best in Show.

a virus expert at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, who helped identify the first spillover. The D1.1 version of the virus was the type linked to the first U.S. death tied to bird flu and ...

A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been ... an evolutionary biologist who studies avian influenza at the University of Pennsylvania.

making habitat creation and preservation incredibly important for several Oxford and Miami-based organizations. One of those organizations is the Miami University Audubon Society, led by sophomore ...