The Irwins open a bird garden at Australia Zoo named in honour of Bindi’s newborn daughter Grace By Demeter Stamell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:23 BST, 28 June 2021 | Updated: 13:23 BST, 28 June 2021 She’s barely three months old, but Bindi Irwin’s daughter, Grace Warrior, has already made a mark on the … Read more
Big Brother winner Reggie Bird shares heartbreaking photos of son Lucas battling cystic fibrosis – and says they are ‘taking each day as it comes’ By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 15:26 BST, 30 May 2021 | Updated: 15:26 BST, 30 May 2021 Reggie Bird shared heartbreaking photos of her son Lucas’ cystic … Read more
Footage captured at the Maharajah Jungle Trek and Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Kissimmee, Florida, shows the Great Argus pheasant try to impress a female bird in an elaborate mating ritual.
NATURE THE NIGHTINGALE by Sam Lee (Century £14.99, 240pp) At 10.45pm on May, 19, 1924, BBC radio announcer Rex Palmer interrupted the Saturday evening broadcast by dance band The Savoy Orpheans to whisk listeners into a Surrey woodland, where cellist Beatrice Harrison had been joined by a nightingale. In those days, just two years after … Read more
Lliana Bird has revealed her mother has been ‘in and out of bomb shelters’ during the Gaza attacks. The Radio X presenter, 36, updated her Instagram followers on her mum as she attempted to shed some light on the events in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. While Lliana resides in London with her partner Noel Fielding … Read more
Channel Nine reporter manages to keep his composure as he ‘cops a face full of bird poo’ during live TV cross By Alisha Buaya For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:54 BST, 12 May 2021 | Updated: 12:05 BST, 12 May 2021 You can never predict what could happen on live TV. And luckily for Channel … Read more
Scientists claim to have identified the world’s most ‘Instagrammable’ bird – the strange, scruffy-looking frogmouth (Podargidae) from Asia and Australia. Researchers in Germany collected 27,621 photos of birds from nine bird-related Instagram accounts, including data on how many likes each photo garnered. Using an algorithm to analyse their ‘aesthetic appeal’, they found photos of frogmouths received … Read more
Heartless yobs chop down osprey nest with a chainsaw – just one day after protected bird laid its first egg of the season in ‘horrendous wildlife crime’ The attack took place at Llyn Brenig reservoir in Denbigh Moors, north Wales – one of only five breeding sites for the rare Osprey birds within Wales Springwatch … Read more
Heartless yobs chop down osprey nest with a chainsaw – just one day after protected bird laid its first egg of the season in ‘horrendous wildlife crime’ The attack took place at Llyn Brenig reservoir in Denbigh Moors, north Wales – one of only five breeding sites for the rare Osprey birds within Wales Springwatch … Read more
Abrdn chief executive Stephen Bird hits back: Name change is start of big shake-up at FTSE100 funds giant By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 1 May 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 1 May 2021 He has taken a battering for changing the name of FTSE100 funds giant Standard Life Aberdeen to … Read more