Birds that break the rules

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Finding the best birds can mean looking in some less than obvious places, writes Paul Brook

Bhutan is one of the most desirable birding destinations on the planet, as Stephen Moss discovered on a Limosa Holidays trip to the legendary Land of the Thunder Dragon…

OFF VENEZUELA’S COAST LIE THE ‘ABC islands’ of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, some of the driest places in the Caribbean. With unpredictable rainfall, cactus-dominated landscapes and rivers that flow onl

Scourge of the bird feeder and a master of ‘shock and awe’ assassinations, the sparrowhawk pursues its quarry with such tenacity and unpredictability that it often blindsides its prey

What a time to be alive… if you’re a capercaillie! The average brood size of this rare bird has more than doubled in parts of Scotland, a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals– thanks to