This bird had personality, too. It seemed to revel in its starring role, posing erect on a wire fence, basking in the evening sun, hawking a gnat from the air, and lording it over the half-dozen or so ...

Like several other Old World mystery birds that we've recently seen, this taxon was recently removed from the thrush family and placed into the Old World flycatcher & chat family Male Schalow's ...

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...

Dartmoor, Devon: This one is an early-arriver after spending winter in sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s keen to show off its ‘white arse’ The first signs of spring shine through the shadow of Haytor Rocks ...

A surprise Northern Wheatear: Ever heard of a wheatear? If you haven’t, here’s a hint - it’s a bird. Does that help? Earlier in the month I wrote a column about spotting an American White Pelican ...

Lumbini, March 30 -- three years after its first recorded appearance in Nepal, northern wheatear, a rare migratory bird species, has been sighted again. The discovery comes exactly 24 days after the ...

The sharp-eyed northern wheatear is a songbird that weighs a mere 25 grams, about the same as two tablespoons of flour. With its spindly legs, its muted white, brown and black colour, who would think ...

The Wheatear, in Maltese Kuda, is another common spring visitor that is rather common from March to May and from August to November. It is occasionally recorded in winter and in June. There are ...

The isabelline wheatear was spotted in Colyford Common, part of Seaton Wetlands in Devon, on January 1 - and stuck around ever since. Experts say it has ‘overwintered’ in the UK. Recommended Church ...

Kannur: A rare species of migratory bird, Pied Wheatear, was recently spotted at Madayipara in Kannur by ophthalmologist and ornithologist Dr. Jayan Thomas. This is the first time there was a record ...

Around this time of year, birders Senthilnathan S and Srivathsan Nagarajan are habitues of the Adyar Estuary, the Broken Bridge side of it. Any birder in Chennai worth his salt would be. The Adyar ...