Third win for Frost and Spooner’s pigeon
Local racing pigeons faced their toughest test of the season when they were dispatched to the...
Do you know these facts about Wimbledon?
The 2017 edition of the Wimbledon Championship kicked off on 3rd July in London. It is the third...
Man steals racing pigeons and eats them
Police have arrested a thief after he took flight with 11 expensive racing pigeons from a...
Carrier pigeon captured in China reveals precious secret
Given recent concerns in China about social unrest or even foreign espionage, it was not...
Enlisting (Rock) Doves in the Cause of War
“The harmless pigeon still has its use in war as a bearer of dispatches despite the great...
Wimbledon´s restless Rufus the Hawk `disappeared to the golf club´
Wimbledon’s resident hawk Rufus decided tennis was not the life for him and disappeared to the...
Outfoxed by crafty birds
ALL I WANTED was a quiet place at the end of the road where I could write my memoirs. About the...
Ask the Master Gardeners: On my maple tree, all the bark is gone
Q. On my two-year-old maple tree, at about hip level on the trunk, all the bark is gone all the...
Technology Preventing Brain Injury Inspired by Woodpeckers
It is difficult to imagine that a bird and a football player have much in common, but they do, and...
Woody Woodpecker and friends flock to our house
I’ve become the proprietor of an avian cheeseburger shack. We are so popular with the birds that I...
Britain’s smallest woodpecker a victim of neat freaks
An obsession with keeping the landscape tidy has been blamed for the rapid disappearance of...
Who’s that rapping at the door? It could be a woodpecker making a visit
Strong claws, short legs and stiff tail feathers enable woodpeckers to climb tree trunks and use...
The precise work of a woodpecker
Since your column talks a lot about crows ... For the last few years I have had two crows with a...
Protecting the Sandhills’ endangered woodpeckers
I recently had the opportunity to go out in the field with Kerry Brust, a red-cockaded woodpecker...