Female of the species

A new book of bird photography celebrates not only the avian world, but the photographers using creative techniques to produce original artworks, from characterful studio portraits to eye-catching abstracts, writes Graeme Green

Getting to know these chatty, sociable and intelligent birds

This enigmatic eastern vagrant has become a mega-rarity, writes David Lindo …

Establishing the facts in the sex–gender debate

FOR AS LONG AS I COULD REMEMBER, the northern goshawk had been elusive, existing just at the edge of everything. This ‘grey ghost’ haunted my imagination. In the early 1970s – which was just as I was

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