Battle of the birds

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family– and a figure of particular terror to the vole

I’d just dropped Sarah off at a small railway station in Scotland and, after several weeks travelling together, I was on my own again. She was heading home to Cornwall, leaving me free to devote time

In the heart of South America, the world’s most powerful eagle perches high in a tree on the fringe of remnant rainforest. Female harpy eagles like this individual can weigh up to 9kg. “These birds ar

Following two weeks spent acclimatising in a special enclosure near Vylkove, a town on the edge of the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, it was time for four young eagle owls to leave. Though the bi

For most of the year, greater sage-grouse keep a low profile, blending into their vast sagebrush home across the American West. But come the breeding season, the males suddenly take centre stage – and