Animal magic

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

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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

They’re noisy, they pinch chips, and they make a mess, but these birds deserve our admiration, writes Ruth Miller

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Karen Youngs revels in the changing landscape and encounters a handsome game bird on a morning walk