IN Claxton, Georgia, USA, the annual rattlesnake roundup is being transformed into a “rattlesnake and wildlife festival”.

AT Dublin District Court, last week, a petrol station owner admitted to removing a gull’s nest and three eggs from the roof of his premises in Balbriggan.

IN 1961 Nelle Harper Lee, ‘the Jane Austen of Southern Alabama’, won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

COAL tits are visiting my garden.

IN April 2006, a businessman shot a strange animal on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic, having paid $45,000 for the privilege of doing so.

THOMAS BEWICK, the celebrated engraver, carved in hard woods.

FORTY years ago this week, National Geographic screened a documentary entitled The Last Tribes of Mindanao.

RESULTS of last winter’s BirdWatch Ireland Garden Birds Survey have been published.

SOME people hate their jobs; they’d prefer to be film stars, great artists or captains of industry.

THE Royal Irish Academy’s journal Biology and Environment doesn’t carry detective stories but there’s a fascinating one in its current edition.