Woman Is In Disbelief After A Wild Bird Starts Speaking To Her In English
“I thought to myself, ‘Am I hearing things?’” The small town of North Rustico lies on the northern shore of Prince Edward Island in Canada. It’s a homey sort of…
Victory! South Korea Announces Plans To Ban Dog Meat Industry By The End Of 2023 With A Three Year Phase Out
A historic announcement as the South Korean government has stated that before the end of 2023, it will introduce a bill to ban the dog meat industry, which farms and…
Country diary: Seven-hundred fieldfare and one ‘mixy’ rabbit
Bingley Moor, West Yorkshire: Up here the black soil is saturated, and so am I. But the birds are in their element, bringing the punchy gusts to life This is…
Birds set foot near South Pole in Early Cretaceous, Australian tracks show
Discovery provides oldest-known evidence for birds so far south The discovery of 27 avian footprints on the southern Australia coast — dating back to the Early Cretaceous when Australia was…
Idai vs. Impalas: New study shows in real-time what helps mammals survive a natural disaster
Princeton researchers and colleagues from around the world documented the effects using trail cameras and animal-tracking devices that had been in use before the storm. Thanks to the extensive network…
How the climate crisis is affecting breeding birds
Researchers find protected areas are essential in helping slow decline of northerly species How is the climate crisis affecting communities of breeding birds? A recent study, by researchers at the…
Hazel dormice becoming endangered in UK amid 70% decline, study says
Species now extinct in 20 counties in England due to loss of woodland scrub and milder winters Populations of the hazel dormouse, perhaps the most elusive native British mammal, have…
Dartmoor Zoo welcomes ‘world’s rarest big cat’
An Amur leopard – “the world’s rarest big cat” – is slinking around his new enclosure after arriving at Dartmoor Zoo. Freddo is adept at climbing walls and springing between…
Fluffy Baby Seal Stranded By Storm Is Rescued Just In Time
But why is she blue and green? 🕵️♀️ At the end of September, a concerned citizen called Seal Rescue Ireland after seeing a baby seal pup on Ennereilly Beach all…
More than half of UK and Ireland seabirds in decline, census finds
Species populations falling, with some decreasing due to loss of habitat and less food availability More than half the seabird species breeding on British and Irish coasts have declined over…