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LIFE IS FULL OF HAZARDS FOR EVERY WILD animal – and injuries involving open wounds can often lead to a slow death from infection, unless licking the site alone is sufficient to keep it bacteria-free.

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

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

FROM THE VIVID FEATHERS OF RAINBOW lorikeets to the bright blue bottoms of mandrills, the tropics are certainly a flamboyant feast for the eyes. Writing in the 19th century, Charles Darwin was struck

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

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