5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (416+ words) The Times The new Gen Z hero? A pigeon " plus more trends to know now Fashion! Beauty! People! Things! Welcome to your weekly guide to the stuff everyone will be talking about. Do keep up Challenge yourself with today's puzzles....

7+ hour, 48+ min ago  (749+ words) With hand-painted pages depicting life-sized birds, one of the world's most expensive books has become a holy grail. Now, two volumes of The Birds of America by John James Audubon are being displayed in an exhibition'in Glasgow " the city that…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (741+ words) I haven't hung up a bird feeder in years. It was rats that put paid to it, though I also had a growing awareness of the problems they were causing " chief among them the transmission of a deadly virus. I…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (689+ words) A wealthy California big-game hunter was trampled to death by a herd of elephants while tracking antelope in central Africa. Ernie Dosio, 75, was killed in Gabon last week while hunting yellow-backed duiker with a professional guide. Dosio, a trophy hunter…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1231+ words) In the summer of 1970 a Sunday Times travel writer joined a press trip to Kenya. It was his first visit to Africa, and when he arrived he took great care to check under his bed for cobras and hairy baboon…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (581+ words) A diet largely composed of M&Ms, Cornettos and Haribo sweets would unsettle most constitutions. The monkeys of Gibraltar, fond of relieving tourists of such provisions, appear to be no exception. A study has found that junk food now forms…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (728+ words) Red squirrels will become extinct in mainland England by the middle of the century unless millions of grey squirrels are culled, the country's nature watchdog has warned. Immortalised in culture by Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin, reds play an ecologically important…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (455+ words) Wild Atlantic salmon exposed to cocaine pollution swim nearly twice as far as normal, according to a study that raises fresh concerns about the effects of human drug use on wildlife. Researchers tracking juvenile fish in a Swedish lake found…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (559+ words) The Times Five of the best Scottish seabird colonies to visit Where to see puffins, guillemots, gannets, razorbills and skuas as breeding season begins " just watch out for fulmars and their disgusting defence mechanism Scotland's seabird colonies are pulsating hubs…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (771+ words) The blackbird woke us well before dawn. There was a surprisingly loud clunk as he landed on the guttering, followed by a few seconds" pause, as though he was clearing his throat. Then the famous song began pouring in through…...