Primal scream

THE BLACK-CAPPED chickadee is wonderfully onomatopoeic. When the diminutive songbird, which is Canada’s answer to the great tit, spots a great-horned owl perched in a tree, it broadcasts a shrill ‘chi

In Sydney, Australia, sulfur-crested cockatoos have a reputation for raiding skips and bins and being able to figure out a way past almost any lock people might use to try and keep them out. Now, they

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

For broadcaster and naturalist David Lindo, the city offers as many birdwatching opportunities as the countryside. You just need to know where to focus your binoculars

THE BEAUTY WITH snorkelling or diving is that it transports you away from the rat race of modern life into an alien world, far detached from our own. With that first dip beneath the surface, the stres

John Miles rounds up the latest releases…