Falconer Tom Waters introduced residents to a hybrid peregrine and lanner falcon, a Harris hawk, and a barn owl, and spoke about their habitats, behaviours, and conservation. Doreen Brook, a ...

Sometimes the sounds of the night tell a story of their own. It might be the soft howls of a hunting coyote letting others know where it is on a moonlit night. Maybe it’s the mellow chant of a common ...

With H is for Hawk in cinemas, author Helen Macdonald reflects on grief, falconry and the landscapes that shaped it ...

The latest novel from Rachel Joyce, The Homemade God (Transworld), has ascended to the summit of the Independent Bookshop Top ...

HEAD gardener at Heywood Gardens, Eoin Long, left his beloved post in mid-January, where he had spent four-and-a-half years ...

Learn which birds are most likely to settle into a birdhouse in your backyard and what you can do to make the space more ...

In the quaint riverside town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, there exists a museum dedicated to a creature that’s half man, half moth, and 100% nightmare fuel. Welcome to the world’s only Mothman ...

The common barn owl is one of the most widely distributed birds of prey on Earth, absent only from polar and extreme desert ...

Casper the barn owl may look calm perched on his handler’s glove, but in the wild, survival is anything but easy.

Scientists have discovered how birds are able to fly in gusty conditions - findings that could inform the development of bio-inspired small-scale aircraft. Scientists from the University of Bristol ...

I got a picture of this owl in the headlights of my car on a fence near my home. What type of owl is it? Ger Fitzgerald, Co Kilkenny This is a barn owl, the scarcer of our two breeding owl species. It ...

Barn cats often form close-knit communities, relying on one another for food, comfort, and care while sharing space and routine. Watching these cats interact feels special, like witnessing a tiny ...