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WHAT was your childhood ambition? When Ryan Shorter, now thirty, wrote a letter about his ambition to own his own zoo, he was just twelve years old. No-one imagined this childhood dream would one day

WHEN I first met Polly, I was a nine-year-old lad, who had been living in Nigeria for just over a year, yearning to have a parrot like other army families had. It was early December 1955, on a hot, du

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

Reading Sam Pyrah’s feature ‘In search of natural wonders’ in the January issue, I can’t imagine she was standing close to her starling murmuration, or she would have mentioned the incredible noise it

Lets take a closer look at these adaptable and intelligent birds