Shifting towards the fastest bird and offering an invigorating element ... readers are presented with details of the bird’s ...

In my last column, I posed a question that went something like this, “when is a duck not a duck.” The answer is when it is a merganser. Then I wrote about the common merganser, which is a member ...

The peregrine falcon is the fastest flying bird and can regularly reach speeds of more than 100mph. Numbers have recovered in recent decades, with 1,750 breeding pairs recorded in 2014.