A blackcap is about the size of a robin. They can be very aggressive at a bird table. Males have a neat jet-black cap and a cold brown-grey body with a pale throat, vent, and undertail coverts.

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, ...

Chiffchaffs of all ages have green-grey upperparts, their underside is light yellow-grey, and they have a thin, dark eye stripe with a narrow, dull supercilium ('eyebrow') ...

For a few weeks every year coming into the colder weather, the skies over Ireland are extraordinarily busy, writes Jack ...

We call them flying rats now, shooing them away from park benches and cursing when they leave droppings on our cars. These ...