Wild romance

The part played by beauty in sexual selection

Spring is the time to see the muscular and noble goshawk, usually as elusive as a ghost circling and swooping through the sky

With returning swifts screaming across the rooftop and golden buttercup pollen gilding his Wellingtons as he strides across the cow meadow, John Lewis-Stempel marvels at the many pleasures of May

Our view of them may be clouded by controversy, but the sight of a silver-grey hen harrier scaling the heavens is pure theatre

Long believed to be a symbol of good fortune, the albatross has its own annual world awareness day on 19th June. As legend would have it, the bird embodies the souls of sailors lost at sea, and to har

I t’s the summer solstice, and the mountains ...