Somewhere in the amazonian understorey, beneath a great forest canopy, a cricket leaps on to the stem of a shrub. It’s the last leap it will ever make. It never gets to flex its legs again. It’s stuck

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Lynn Farram and the congregation of Christ Church, Norris Green, Liverpool

THIS MONTH Barn owls

Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago

Absurd little birds across the world lay their eggs in the nests of other species, leaving the hapless parents to raise a changeling at the expense of their own offspring. The majority are cuckoos – o