But for home maintenance and peace of mind, it's good to know how to identify common backyard bird eggs and the one you don't want to see — the house sparrow, which is a pest, believe it or not.

British Birds: Nest, Eggs & Meadow Pipits - Vintage Nature Documentary. Posted: March 16, 2025 | Last updated: March 16, 2025 “The Cuckoo” is a silent nature film from the 1930s that examines ...

Some British supermarkets have started to ration customers' purchase of eggs after supplies were disrupted by avian flu. Britain is facing its largest-ever outbreak of bird flu and is seeing rapid ...

THIS second series completes Mr. Coward's work on British birds, already favourably noticed in the pages of NATURE. It treats of the numerous and varied forms of aquatic and wading birds, storks ...

LONDON – A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction. Christie's auction house said Wednesday that the ...

Dutch authorities said they had identified the bird flu ... Cull of 150,000 chickens under way at Netherlands egg ... Renowned virologist and bird flu expert Ron Fouchier said British ...

IN the days of Curtis and Stephens, the late Mr. W. C. Hewitson was a diligent collector and observer of British insects of all orders, and likewise an ornithologist, who published several ...

The number of thefts of British bird eggs reached a record low in 2003, a leading ornithological charity says. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says there were only nine nest thefts ...