Great eared nightjar

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

As a child, i saw owls as mystical beings that operated by night, were difficult to see at the best of times, and hung out in woodland locations far from the largely concrete surroundings of my home i

PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY

These enormous storks are just one of Costa Rica’s many avian attractions, writes Ruth Miller

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Of the 60,000 or so species of named weevils on this planet, Trachelophorus giraffa stands out by, well, a neck’s length. It is one of the iconic and endemic ‘must-see’ species for those planning a vi