RECENTLY, just as light was breaking through with snow falling on the local brae, two blue-tits defied each other, and winter’s stubbornness, with vigorous territorial song, a war of spring words, ...

Sandy, Bedfordshire Climate change has boosted the songbirds’ advance northwards, and they seem to fill every copse In the rising chorus over the past few weeks, one migratory bird has stood out as ...

I have a dream. In that dream, there are no names for music. Music just is. You heard me. No country. No rock. No rap, polka, classical or experimental. And certainly, in this dream, there is no such ...

DURING more than forty years' observation of the singing of birds, I have invariably heard the chiff-chaff singing in September, although the song is much less frequently repeated than in the spring.

A pack of wild dogs attacked a pet alpaca called Chiff leaving residents afraid to the leave their homes. Chiff was attacked last month in the back garden of his owner's Tallebudgera Valley home, near ...

IN a review of certain recent ornithological works, in one of your latest issues, doubt seems to be thrown on the fact of the chiff-chaff singing late in September.